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Images of Count Orlok from the 1922 horror classic, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.

The film Nosferatu is the origin of one crucial bit of Vampire folklore that has remained ingrained into pop culture's psyche to this day: the belief that sunlight can kill a vampire. Prior to Nosferatu's premiere it was well understood that though they disliked it in large amounts, vampires could not only withstand sunlight, but walk outside in broad daylight and lead seemingly normal lives, though they much prefered to be primarily active at night. But with one of the last scenes in the film, with Noserfatu at the open window at sunrise fading from the screen, his body bent in his death throes, typical vampires have alltogether become shadow-clutching photosensitive creatures of the night, making "Daywalkers" something of a novelty.

The film was created when German filmakers could not obtain the rights to Bram Stoker's Dracula to do a remake. Bram Stoker's widow, Florence, took the filmakers to court and won, all copies of Nosferatu ordered to be destroyed, but the edict came too late as copies of the popular movie had swelled and spread throughout the entire world, thus saving this thinly veiled Dracula copy and cult classic from never again seeing the light of day -- pun most DEFINITELY intended. In the US the film is still under public domain, thank goodness.

Nosferatu is commonly used to refer to the vampire from the movie as his name, but this is not the case. Count Orlok, called the "Bird of the Night", is A Nosferatu, Nosferatu being its own class of vampire. The word itself is believed to be of uncertain Romanian origin. Bram Stoker himself thought it to mean "not dead", and thus created the term Undead from it. Some scholars say that it is derived from the Ancient Greek nosophoros, meaning 'disease-bearing', which is CERTAINLY the theme of Count Orlok's plague-like powers, but no one really knows exactly from where the word Nosferatu first originated. Oh well.

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