Attention all horror movie fans! This is a splendidly chilling, haunting and original movie about the scary making of the first great horror film - 1922's Nosferatu. Those variable actors Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich both come up trumps with their top-drawer performances as the film's star, Max Schreck, and director, Friedrich Murnau. This isn't just a film for old-time film buffs, it's a horror movie in its own right, as the vampiristic Schreck gets interested in people's necks, possibly the cause of the disappearance and death of various crew members. Malkovich portrays Murnau as a magnetically flamboyant, dangerously obsessed character, but he's still upstaged by a brilliant Dafoe as the skeletal, talon-clawed horror icon. This eerie film is funny in its twisted way, but it also has plenty of bite with its dark, poetic sensibility.