The Tomb of Nosferatu (2023)

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Arthur Dark of the fantastic YouTube channel "Hollywood Graveyard" takes another stab at turning the cemetery video tour on its head, and comes up with a fun idea.

Arthur (Arthur Dark) and Helen (Lauren Foulk credited as Lauren Ashley) tour Europe, visiting the graves of the director and cast of 1922's "Nosferatu," as well as the film's locations. While in a graveyard, Helen is possessed by an entity who has ties to the film, and Arthur must rescue her.

The film is a strange combination of horror and documentary, but the fun comes from Dark and Foulk's scenes being shot silent film-style, as the original "Nosferatu" was shot by F.W. Murnau. Dark and Nathan D. Lee have fun with the medium without calling attention to themselves in deference to both the original film and the visits to the cemeteries and the film's locations. The film is not bloody or horrific in the least, and Dark brings the same respect he shows on "Hollywood Graveyard" to this project. Giuseppe Vasapolli's music is beyond perfect, just like his theme on the YouTube channel, and this clocks in at a brisk thirty-six minutes.

I liked this a little better than Dark's "The Graves of Edgar Allan Poe & The Women Who Haunted Him," and I think it would interest any fan of horror, German film, and film history.

Stats:
(2023) 36 min. (* * * 1/2) out of five stars
-Written and Directed by Arthur Dark & Nathan D. Lee
-Cast: Arthur Dark, Lauren Foulk, Matthew Toronto, Susie Schwab, Karie Bible, Max Schreck, Greta Schroder, Gustav von Wangenheim
(Not Rated)- contains mild adult situations