Nosferatu The Vampyre

The British Film Institute has released a new trailer for director Werner Herzog's Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979), starring Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, and Bruno Ganz. This hauntingly elegant vampire film will be released theatrically on November 1 as part of the BFI's UK-Wide Gothic season.

The film will also be released in a Dual Format Edition (DVD and Blu-ray discs) by the BFI in spring 2014.

Synopsis: Werner Herzog's remake of the classic 1921 Nosferatu (directed by F.W. Murnau). Jonathan Harker (Ganz), happily married to his young wife Lucy (Adjani), works as an estate agent in the small town of Wismar. When his employer sends him off to Transylvania to close a property deal with Count Dracula (Kinski), Lucy immediately senses danger and the locals he meets en route also try to persuade him to break off his journey. He is greeted by the Count, an eerie, rodent-like apparition, with his white bald head, dark-rimmed eyes, pointed teeth and ears and gruesomely long nails. While dining that night, Jonathan cuts his finger, provoking a very strange reaction in his host …