Nosferatu the Vampyre

Admirably faithful to the silent iteration while adding some style of its own, yet not much is gained from the aid of color and sound. It's not like Kinski has a scary voice! He does excel at selling these manual slow-motion attack sequences, which have the effect of sleep paralysis terror. Oh shit he's lunging, oh jesus he's like two feet away and it's gonna take him a minute and somehow it's way scarier that way, oh fuck he's right there

Nosferatu is haunting and stunning but fairly slow. It's still fantasticly eery and captures the same mood as the original. Also Klaus Kinski is mesmerizing.

Glorious at its finest moments

Fresh take on the Dracula mythos that gives the well-worn character a healthy dose of pathos. Kinski's Count is not a suave charmer like Lugosi or Cushing, but is instead a beaten down shut-in, bored with eternal life and desperate for romantic love (not just cravings of the flesh), however he can get it. Herzog's visual style is as strong as ever, nailing iconic images from the original and introducing some brilliant new scenes (the "invisible" count stalking Lucy in her mirror) to the canon.

One, Kinski needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Kinski's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Kinski"? Three--