Universal Monsters - Viewing Order

Joao99 said:
Wait both Nosferatu are in the same Universe? The Old one And the New ?
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It's complicated. Nosferatu (2024) is a Universal Monsters movie. The 1922 film, however, is not... but, the short film Boo!, which is Universal Monsters, uses footage from that film as a stand-in for "Dracula". Thus, the original film is tangentially related, similar to, say, Return of the Vampire being a sequel to Dracula except with a different name.

They're different enough, plot-wize. It'd be nice if they were set in different years though.
 
Pro Bot said:
The Monster Squad movie, however... apparently the Director's commentary confirms the monsters are the same from Universal. I can't verify that for myself.
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It's an unofficial tribute, one of dozens. They took care to avoid replicating Universal designs to avoid getting sued. It doesn't count as UM.
 
Pro Bot said:
It's complicated. Nosferatu (2024) is a Universal Monsters movie. The 1922 film, however, is not... but, the short film Boo!, which is Universal Monsters, uses footage from that film as a stand-in for "Dracula". Thus, the original film is tangentially related, similar to, say, Return of the Vampire being a sequel to Dracula except with a different name.

They're different enough, plot-wize. It'd be nice if they were set in different years though.
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The 100th anniversary edition of Nosferatu 1922 puts the events in 1843
 
iceman109 said:
The 100th anniversary edition of Nosferatu 1922 puts the events in 1843
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yeah, it neither was in the original script nor approved by the F.W. Murnau Stifftung. That's something that Reel Vault did. Film is in public domain everyone can make changes to it. Unless it's officially changed (so by F.W. Murnau Stifftung) then we should ignore other changes.
 
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"Nosferatu" - F. W. Murnau (1922)

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888 - 1931) was a major German filmmaker in the 1920s and one of the prominent early exponents of German Express...
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The story of Nosferatu begins not in late 19th century London, but in Germany and is said to describe the Great Death of Wisborg in 1843. This fictitious city is thought to refer to the northern Hanseatic German city of Wismar, but some English-language translations of the titles say that the setting is in Bremen in 1838. The titular adjustment to 1838 may be an attempt to match history more closely, since there was a real plague that swept through northern Europe in 1838.
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu Eine Symphonie des Grauens) – Senses of Cinema

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Galeen's script is set at the time of "The Great Death in Wisborg in the year 1843 A.D." In the English language version, the intertitles have altered the location and era to Bremen, 1838, with the historian's name given as Johann Cavallius. The English language version alters several other plot details and sadly, loses the lyrical, Expressionistic character of Galeen's original intertitles.
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