Pocket Cinephile Horror Essentials - # 6. Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau, 1922

Murnau's proto-expressionist vampire film is quite simply the template for castle-bound, blood sucking terror. Later retold admirably by Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu-Phantom der Nacht, 1979), and reinvented by E. Elias Merhige (Shadow of the Vampire, 2000), the film is one of the pillars upon which any house of horror is built.