Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Directed by E. Elias Merhige · Cinematography by Lou Bogue
R92 min48 frames
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What is Shadow of the Vampire about?
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Shadow of the Vampire is a 2000 horror film directed by E. Elias Merhige, written by Steven Katz, and starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe. It is a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922), directed by F. W. Murnau, during which the film crew begin to have disturbing suspicions about their lead actor, Max Schreck. The film's premise is based on an urban legend which suggests that Schreck was not an actor, but in fact a vampire himself. It borrows several techniques of silent films, including the use of intertitles to explain elided action, and iris lenses.
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What does the cinematography of Shadow of the Vampire look like?
Across 48 sampled frames, Shadow of the Vampire builds its coverage from medium shots (52% of the sample), with close-ups (29%) carrying much of the rest. Low angles recur throughout. Cinematographer Lou Bogue keeps 65% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. 79% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 67% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Shadow of the Vampire?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Shadow of the Vampire (2000) are #0e0d0b, #33302c, #261a11, #f7f6f6, #2b241b, #544939 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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