Friday, 28 January 2011

Call Him Orlock If You Want, But He's Still Dracula

The courts ordered that all copies of the 1922 movie Nosferatu must be destroyed, but that was a long time ago and the movie managed to survive. Why did they make such a ruling? Because of copyright infringement. The movie was based on Dracula and the director did not have permission to make it, so he made some changes. Count Dracula became Count Orlok and Van Helsing became non-existent, but the changes were not enough to disguise the truth. It was still Dracula: Nosferatu, The Movie That Should Never Have Been.