Episode 45: Remake Reframe - Nosferatu (1922 - 2024)

This episode was recorded on January 9, 2025 and posted on January 25, 2025.

Content Warning: Light vulgarity.

Introduction

• Welcome to No Bodies Episode 47
• Introductions to your Ghosts Hosts with the Most - Lonely of Lonely Horror Club and Projectile Varmint aka Suzie
• Introducing our new episode series - Remake Reframe
• Today's Topic: Nosferatu (1922), Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1978), Nosferatu (2024)

Answering Your Voicemails!

• Responding to two listener voicemails from Ian and Kenan

Remake Reframe

• What qualifies a good remake? Are good remakes always true to the original source material?
• Criteria for the Original Film
  • Did this film need a remake?
  • Has the film aged well?
  • One thing from the original that is important to keep in a remake
  • One thing from the original that is important to change in a remake
• Criteria for the Remake
  • How true was the remake to the original, for better or worse?
  • What was kept the same? What was changed?
  • Was the remake successful?

Film Discussion

• Nosferatu (1922)
• Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1978)
• Nosferatu (2024)

Closing Thoughts

• Which of the Nosferatu adaptations is the best film?

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Sources

Keatley, A. (2022, March 15). Try as she might, Bram Stoker's widow couldn't kill "Nosferatu." NPR. https://www.npr.org/2022/03/15/1086605684/try-as-she-might-bram-stokers-widow-couldnt-kill-nosferatu

Snider, E. D. (n.d.). What's the big deal?: Nosferatu (1922) - Film.com. Film.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20111013085354/http://www.film.com/movies/whats-the-big-deal-nosferatu-1922#fbid=wviJo4mxwSl