Shadow of the Vampire is a humorous metafiction horror film released in 2000 directed by E. Elias Merhige and written by Steven Katz, and starring John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, and Udo Kier. The film is a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, directed by F. W. Murnau, in which the film crew begin to have disturbing suspicions about their lead actor. The film borrows the techniques of silent films, including the use of intertitles to explain elided action and iris lenses. The film received two Academy Award nominations, Best... Supporting Actor and Best Makeup, but lost to Traffic and How The Grinch Stole Christmas, respectively. In 1921, German director Frederich Wilhelm Murnau takes his Berlin-based cast and crew on-location in Slovakia and Poland in order to shoot Nosferatu, an unauthorized version of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
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| Release date: | May 15, 2000 |
| Directed by: | E. Elias Merhige |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 92 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jeff Levine, Nicolas Cage |
| Editor: | Chris Wyatt |
| Music by: | Dan Jones |
| Cinematography: | Lou Bogue |
| Screenplay by: | Steven A. Katz |
| Estimated budget: | $8,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Nosferatu |