...destiny by running away! True. I find that to certainly be the case.
 
That's a line from a movie I've seen dozens of times, but it just started on TCM and I have to watch it again! Sometimes when I'm down, or lonely, or in a rut... Hell, that's all the time... I like to watch a horror film, but sometimes I love to watch an old Silent Movie by a great director and no one was better in my mind than F.W. Murnau the genius behind one of my favorite films, "Sunrise" and the film I'm talking about now, "Nosferatu" staring Max Schreck!
 
This looks just great! I'm wondering if it's the Kino International "Nosferatu: The Ultimate Edition," cause it looks great to me? I've had to see some bad prints of it in the past, but this is all cleaned up.
 
I'm sitting in the dark, water bottle in my hand, bag of Tostito chips between my legs and I'm all into this again as if this was the first time seeing it. All the sailors on the ship, Demeter, carrying Orlok's coffins get sick from the plague, and everyone is dead but two guys. So the cool looking Wolfgang Heinz picks up a hatchet and works up the nerve to do something about it, because they're out in the middle of nowhere and they got to do something, so he decides to go down in the dark bowels of the ship and destroy the coffins, which are filled with
crawling, filthy, flea covered rats. He's cracking open these coffins and rats are pouring out, GROSS! Suddenly Orlok rises up out of his coffin and it's so horrifying and freakishly supernatural that the sailor's mind just can't take what he's seeing and the hatchet falls from his limp hand, then knowing there's no hope jumps into the sea. The captain then pointlessly ties himself to his ship's wheel as Orlok hovers over him. Awesome!
 
I'm telling you I've seen it a million times and seen it ripped off a million more times in other flicks, but I'm still taken with it. Simply, it's scary and it works!
 
There, it's over and somehow I feel better about myself, life, death, disease and I'm going to bundle up in a blanket making sure no toes are sticking out so the rats and vampires can't bite them while I partake in a little slice of death called, sleep.