Cool and still, and yet by turns comical and horrific, this film explores a growing relationship between a lonely boy and an equally lonely girl, who may or may not be a vampire. Oskar is a small, pale boy, who remains friendless and isolated, picked on and bullied by larger and smaller brutes alike. He meets Eli, a new girl in town, who is even paler and perhaps more isolated. Oskar realizes that Eli may be responsible for the recent gruesome murders in his town, but she also holds the possibility of his rescue from the torment of his daily adolescent life.

Not just a vampire movie, this horror film is rife with witches, shapeshifters and a host of evil Warriors of Darkness, who have remained at bay in a delicate balance with the Warriors of Light. Then a series of events upsets that balance, and a prophecy long dreaded may come to fruition, triggering an apocalyptic war.

Based on the novel Dracula, this film follows Count Orlok as he prepares to travel from his home in the Carpathian Mountains to Bremen, where he brings death and horror. The actual identity of the actor who plays Nosferatu, Max Schreck, remains to this day a mystery, with legend having it that he himself was a vampire.

Allan Gray, on a walking tour, comes to a mysterious house whose inhabitants are greatly troubled by a vampire. The old woman, long dead, nevertheless seeks the beautiful Léone, using a treacherous village doctor as her agent. The great influence of German Expressionism is present, through the use of shadow and light, exaggerated images, and symbolism, all working to pull into question what is real and what is not, what is illusion or hallucination and what is tangible.