Shadow of the Vampire - in which the behind the scenes story of the making of Nosferatu reveals that he was a real-ass vampire. John Malkovich plays the real life director, Frederich Wilhelm Murnau, who is obviously a crazy person, based on the fact that Malkovich is playing him, and he found a real vampire to be in his Dracula knock-off movie. He has a producer named Albin, and some writer who gets eaten halfway through production. So, the company travels from Germany to Romania to this small town a weird castle, and Murnau tells them "Max Shreck" will be playing a vampire through method acting, which hasn't been invented, and he will stay at the Creepy castle where they find him. Like, they don't even introduce the cast or crew to him, they are filming a scene of Eddie Izzard approaching the Castle, and Max Schreck appears out of nowhere, in frame, and freaks everyone tf out. Murnau does his best to keep Max segregated, I guess, but he still ends up interacting with the crew at different points. The best scene in the movie is the creepy old vampire telling Udo Kier and the writer why he hates the book, Dracula. Its too sad.
Anyways, the reason the vampire agreed to do the film was because Murnau told him he could eat the lead actress in the final scene, and it is ambiguous as to whether or not he really intends to. Did I mention Willam Defoe is the vampire? He's fucking perfect. Later, Carey Elwes shows up to film some scenes with a weird accent. The whole thing is perfect.
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