Nosferatu Trivia Quiz

Answer: A Symphony Of Horror

As the film is silent, all of the information has to be conveyed through the acting, and through subtitle screens such as this one.

Answer: The Death Bird

There seems to be a lot of repetition of certain phrases in the written screens, for example, the word "creepy" is used an awful lot. I think this may be as a result of the translation from German to English.

Answer: She is upset that he has killed the flowers

Ellen is a strange character - she is this film's version of Mina Harker from "Dracula", and frankly I think she is less appealing than Mina. She is sad that her husband has killed the flowers by picking them, not that he is leaving, because she does not know this yet.

Answer: Country of Ghosts

Hutter later refers to it as the "country of thieves and ghosts" when he is telling Ellen that he has to leave.

Answer: Hyena

It is stripey, and looks nothing like a wolf. This seems a bit cheesy now, but I suppose when the film was made, people were not as familiar with hyenas as we are now.

Answer: Werewolves

The title of the book is "Of Vampires, Terrible Ghosts, Magic, And The 7 Deadly Sins". Hutter works out what Orlok is from reading this book, and Ellen later discovers how to defeat Orlok from information in the book.

Answer: Speeding up the film and shooting in negative

The carriage is sped up to make it look unnaturally fast, and another shot is in negative, so it's black where it should be white, and white where it should be black. I think it is supposed to be symolic of how odd the journey is, and how everything is not quite what it seems.

Answer: Cuts his finger while slicing bread

He notices Count Orlok staring at him, and loses concentration and cuts himself. The shaving scene mentioned above is in the 1992 film "Bram Stoker's Dracula". Another interesting thing to notice in the scenes in this room is, when Hutter is showing Orlok the deeds to his house, on the table there is a picture of the house which looks as though it has been drawn by a five-year-old!

Answer: The vampire's shadow

Orlok's shadow is used numerous times in the film to represent his presence, most famously when we see his shadow climbing the stairs to Ellen's room.

Answer: She walks on tiptoe

She walks on her toes, with her arms out in front of her like a sleepwalker. She gets out of bed, and walks out of the window and along the balcony until Harding rescues her and calls the doctor.

Answer: Graves

I think they represent the men who had died at sea. It also echoes what is happening on the ship carrying Orlok at the time.

Answer: Croquet

Their game is disturbed when a letter arrives from Hutter, and they rush to the beach to give it to Ellen.

Answer: The plague threat

Knock is later the town's scapegoat for the plague, and they all chase him through the streets!

Answer: They arrive at the same time

Orlok travelled by ship, and Hutter travelled by land, and they both appear to arrive at the same time.

Answer: I Love You

She stitches "Ich Liebe Dich" in large letters, which are clearly visible in one shot. She leaves it for Hutter as a final message because she knows she will probably die later that night.