Film Analysis Essay on Nosferatu

Emotions of Horror via Viewer Identification

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Emotional and physical reactions of characters in the film to the horrific (underline any that apply):

Breathlessness chills cringing crying dry mouth frozenness hair bristling heightened alertness increased respiration involuntary screaming momentary arrest muscular contractions (tensing) nausea paralysis racing heart recoiling shrinking shuddering sweating tingling (spine-tingling) trembling

The Monster/Killer in General

1. Threatening-describe how the monster/killer is threatening:

Physically: in this film monsters and vampires are presented uniquely since they are in no case blackly attractive, but they are weird and corpselike. In most cases and scene in the film, the monsters are seen physically threatening the people who are around them. On arriving in the castle as he is having dinner, he accidentally cuts his thumb, and Orlok tries to suck the blood trickling from the cut thumb of Hutter (Kooky216Films, 2016). Orlok is inhumane fir nit feeling sorry for Hutter instead he wants to continue hurting and posing a significant threat to him.

Psychologically: the name Orlok frightens the locals in the German city and a result they choose to advise Hutter not to travel to the castle of the Orlok at night for the security of his life. This causes a lot of psychological threats considering that his employer Her Knock is mysterious. Hutter struggles with his mind on what to do, and he chooses to fear for his life and fails to go to the castle at night (Kooky216Films, 2016). He spends the night in the city, and the morning he starts his journey to the castle.

The castle is found in a high mountain, and he has to climb it, he finds a coach to aid him in the climbing. The coach accepts, but he limits the distance he can afford to climb as the nightfall is approaching. Hutter is terrified psychologically considering that he has to climb the mountain to the far point alone to meet a person who is feared by all. Furthermore, he is not aware of the place since he had not been there before (Kooky216Films, 2016). It is on top of a mountain, and he can meet wild animals which can hurt him before he arrives at Orlok's castle.

Socially: on looking at the photo of Hutter's wife Orlok feels that the woman has a lovely neck. Orlok admires the wife of Hutter. Also, socially Hutter is forced to go to a long distance leaving his wife and family far away this has social implications too.

Morally: Ellen reads a book left by the husband in the house even after being requested not to read it. She finds out that the vampires can be defeated through a woman using her beauty all through the night to win him. He tries this immoral act and ends up acting immorally and places herself in the drizzling fire.

Spiritually: Hutter suspects that Orlok might be a monster in due course. He locks himself in a room, but in a miracle way, Orlok opens the door. The manifestation on the monster in Orlok becomes a reality (Kooky216Films, 2016). Even after hiding himself under the bed and faints unconsciously. In the film, we meet the wife to Hutter crying for the sake of his husband as who is under attack from the monster.

2. Impure: the monster is found resting in a coffin by Hutter as he explores the castle. The coffins are sailed, and all the sailors of the coffins become sick on by one, and they end up all dying. There are a lot of deaths reported in the city after Orlok returns to his newly purchased castle with one of the coffins (Kooky216Films, 2016).

3. Evil: as they were having dinner in his castle upon Hutter being cut his thumb he tries to suck his blood. Also, he uses coffins as a sign of evil, this result to the death of many people in the city. While he was in his castle, he threatens the unconscious Hutter in the presence of his wife.

Being Horrified

a. How is the monster a possible being?

The monster in the film is introduced as a being that has purchased a castle in a city in Germany. It signs the required documents for the purchase proving its being. It is again meet having dinner with Hutter and other beings that prevent it from sucking Hutter's blood from the cut thumb.

b. How is the monster threatening?

The monster causes a lot of death in the city after it uses ships to sail its coffin into the city. It physically threatens Hutter in the presence of his wife in its castle on different occasions in the film.

c. How is the monster impure?

It is found resting in a coffin by Hutter, and we meet it transport the coffins to the city of Hutter with a dramatic death of people following this incidence.

d. How is the monster evil?

It tries to suck blood from the cut thumb of Hutter and through its evil deeds many people in the city end up dying out of unknown reasons.

Actions to the monster by others in the film

First, Ellen reads that the women has the power to destroy the monster be their beauty and she chooses to give her beauty a try in this. Secondly, after Hutter realized that Orlok was a monster, he locks himself in a room to avoid meeting him again (Kooky216Films, 2016). Lastly, he tries to escape through the window of the room he was locking himself to escape from the monster.

The Structure of Horror

The Complex Discovery Plot

The monster tries to suck the blood trickling from the cut thumb of Hutter as they were having dinner. The tried sucking did not succeed since the fellow being in the castle pulled Orlok from doing this horrible action (Kooky216Films, 2016). It was ignited by the cutting of Hutter's thumb accidentally.

The monster causes indefinite deaths in the city after transporting coffins into the city. He escaped to the castle with one leaving behind a massacre of deaths. The deaths are many as his wish, so to some extent, he emerged victorious in his actions.

Reference

Kooky216Films (2016). Nosferatu | 1922, silent, full film, high quality. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAX2WBzCh5Y