nosferatu-herzog opening credits. (1979)

[Bellalinski]

These mummies are from Guanajuato, Mexico where there is a mummy museum. People are naturally mummified in the adjacent cemetery and when graves are not maintained, they are exhumed. Most are from the above-ground vaults. The museum exhibits over 100 of the over 1000 mummies. This is not filmed in the museum itself. Just FYI you can buy 'mummy candy' as you exit the museum.

[Babeolicious]

This is completely eerie and hypnotic--suitable for the feel of a vampire. I remember how creepy (yet beautiful) I found this when I first saw it--and nothing's changed. Love this opening.

[MrScienceNut]

A true vampire film by a true director, not like this Twilight business we need to take care of.

[libertarianable]

So these are the imfamous mummies of the Black Plague

[VideoMask93]

@libertarianable Not quite. A Cholera epidemic in Mexico.

[WilliamGarland]

You left out the part were the kittens are playing with the locket.

[cofpaddy]

One of the best opening scenes in horror cinema

[levanyzzuf]

I remember being at a Chili Peppers concert back in '06 and hearing Flea hum a few bars from this tune. It was weird.

[Skulldini]

@levanyzzuf Well, aparently HE had reall cool taste in flicks !

[skyler8082012]

What is Zinskaro? i cant find it on imdb or anywhere, can u give me a link? thanks

[Raycheetah]

@skyler8082012 watch?v=AvrBWCtylyI =^[.]^=

[skyler8082012]

@Raycheetah thanks man

[clemdane]

This and Zinskaro will stay in my mind forever.

[cordenero]

Great intro!!! I am proud of this because this mummies are in my country Guanajuato in Mexico. The mummy at 0.50 is the corpse of a woman buried alive!!! this is true, very scary. at 0.10 is the smallest mummy in the world, a baby child newborn.

I love this picture.

[RatkosKorner]

There's something about those mummies, and the music, and the heartbeat, the slow-motion flying bat, and the beautiful Isabelle Adjani's final scream that freezes me blood and sends chills crawling up me spine...

A memorable yet underestimated intro of a unique homage of an immortal masterpiece.

Up yours, Twilight!

[virlennenklein]

Can you hear how our world is remained a medieval and fascinating place?

[gameguy1o]

OK, the intro is actually a load of mummies that go up in age order; Herzog saw them in a museum and wanted to put them into the intro to give a creepy atmosphere to the film from the start. I don't know if they are meant to be the previous people that Nosferatu fed on.

[zakalon123]

The best intro for a vampire film ever. It is indelible. I will always remember this film because it was one of the first film to come on to the then new channel 4.

I was seven then, so I bloody well never would forget it. Popol Vuh produces the best soundtrack to a vampire film, since Krystof Komeda's Fearless Vampire Killers.

[jetmemphis83]

satan called and said these opening credits were giving him nightmares.

[apostol551]

@jetmemphis83 ja.ja.ja......................­.

[raindbird]

0:41 dig those shoes

[LucasLeo83]

I watched this picture when i was young. Is excellent!!!

[LucasLeo83]

Excellent intro!!!. Very scary!!!

[Wiseguy453]

This a creepy opening sequence. Are all of those corpses the people that Nosferatu fed upon during the past?

[alquimista2007]

Esta película es genial. La vi por vez primera cuando era un niño y me fascino su extraña atmósfera y lenguaje tan introspectivo. Guarda un lugar privilegiado en mi videoteca.

[pgjr00]

Blink, and you're dead!

[gameguy1o]

@pgjr00 ha!

[pgjr00]

@gameguy1o Doctor Who quote, episodes Blink and hmmm, something of Angels? (or whatever)....in case I freaked anyone out!

[truthfilter]

omg i watched this on tv last night for the first time ..what a fucking MINT!! film

best vampyre film i've ever seen ..it's so believable and more realistic

than all the hollywood crap

i'm gonna buy it on dvd :)

[Icarais69]

The greatest horror story opening in film... The music (chillingly) initiates a sense of evil, uncanny and unutterably old. A feeling of the long-dead exudes from the mummies...and, at the same time, the chanting underscores a dread, a strange sense of 'alive and not alive'...feelings Klaus Kinski conveys in the movie as much as its startling art direction and director Werner Herzog's visionary force as a director. Great and too often underrated...

[mossena]

Thanks for adding this. One of my favorite opening scenes ever.

[NihilisticSliceshow]

Wow...I want to see this!

Would you say the original or this remake is better?? I haven't seen either.

[VanSisean]

@NihilisticSliceshow To answer your question, I'd say both are worth watching. This remake is one of the best there is of any film, in my opinion; it's about 95-98% as good as the original.

[Votapardo]

Why the hell did I watch this? It's 9 PM in my country and now I don't dare to go to bed!

[spook394]

@Votapardo I watched the movie when it came out. I sat in my seat.....thinking...OH WOW!!! This is truly one of the scariest intros I have seen.

[preg74]

great example of vampire movie....please take a look to Murnau's original too,the masterpiece of all this type of cinema.This is fantastic,for me is relaxing too,especially during Harker's trip to Dracula's castle

[scottyfritts]

This and the original are great ! Both have great atmosphere and cinematography , Both are also ahead of there time.

[ewasabi]

Here's the music: Richard Wagner, the Reingold Prelude. It's from the opera Der Ring des Nibelungen from Wagner, 1851. This opera last for about 15 hours and has 4 parts: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. The story is based on Noorwegian myths and the German Nibelungen. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (born in Leipzig, 22 mei 1813 – Venetië, 13 februari 1883) was a German composer.

[ewasabi]

Here's the music: Richard Wagner, the Reingold Prelude. It's from the opera Der Ring des Nibelungen from Wagner, 1851. This opera last for about 15 hours and has 4 parts: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. The story is based on Noorwegian myths and the German Nibelungen. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (born in Leipzig, 22 mei 1813 – Venetië, 13 februari 1883) was a German composer.

[germo68]

One of the best productions ever made. Got the German version. Kinski was exhausted afterwards. Decades later you see Bruno Ganz as the Führer in Der Untergang............" Ich liebe die Schatten und die Dunkelheit, dort wo Ich mit meine Gedanken allein sein kann ".

[deathproof82]

@Heinrich5y thanks, man! Appreciate it. Great music.

[dcspartan117]

dis is a remake of a 1922 movie naimd mosferatu that movie is creeapy

[rubberplantsandwich]

i normally hate these films but i loved this

[dkempf1]

I think the music is either chant or gothic...

[dkempf1]

Great film about vampires..just watched it again. Deserves many repeat viewings...

[deathproof82]

What kind of music would any of you describe this? I fucking love it. Let me know.

[Heinrich5y]

@deathproof82

Popoh Vuh

[Heinrich5y]

@deathproof82

Popol Vuh a german band

[dkempf1]

You are so right! This film is masterpiece. I have seen many, many vampire films and read many of the books. This is the best vampire film of all time. This is of course only my opinion..

[xavierbaudet]

The music and the images are phenomenal, but the acting...well... But strangely enough, it somehow works. It makes the film weirder and indeed scarier.

[alfredo1992]

OMG THE GUANAJUATO'S MUMMIES!!!

[germo68]

Great movie with the best intro ever made. Bruno Ganz is starring Johnatan Harker. Almost 25 years later he played Hitler in Der Untergang. Kinski was completly empty after playing his part in this masterpiece. Isabelle Adjani later soulmated Jean Michelle Jarre. Part of the movie was shot in Leiden (Holland) Officials over there had lots of difficulties keeping the rats, used in the last part, together. Movie is hard to find. I got the German and Englisch version. Lucky me

[levanyzzuf]

I'm strangely aroused.

[sesdelta38]

the mummified bodies in the beginning. What's location of that place there in?

[DocterTen]

@sesdelta38

I'm pretty sure its in Mexico. The story behind the mummies is VERY macabre.

[Saki666Dark]

Nice upload..

[pekoe67]

Kinski never blinks in this film

[TookYerJob1]

Twilight tries to sell you on how cool it is to be a vampire.

Nosferatu breaks the news that it well & truly sucks

[dkempf1]

I HATE Twilight! I LOVE this film....

[skulker71]

I saw this movie when I was about nine, shortly after it came out. After those opening credits and Kinski's performance, how the hell could I be expected to take "Twilight" seriously?

[Mexicanceltic]

Of course, Twilight its a commercial crap. Movies like Nosferatu or Dracula from Bram Stokers are the real vampire movies, when the greatest makeup work cause magic and no stupid cool boys.

[dkempf1]

Amen, amen. Stephen King, Anne Rice and Herzog should have an intervention to tell her what a real vampire story is. This is my favorite vampire movie bar none!

[YellowTurtle13]

Stephen King created one of the most chilling vampire stories ever, Anne Rice revolutionized their suave yet scary style... but Nosferatu (at least the 1922 version) showed us pure evil incarnate. Truly horrifying vision of a vampire...

[Matuiniify]

This movie is epic,also the Popul Vuh music...

[mappoprimo]

when i was little, like 10, and saw this movie for the first time, i thought these were victims of nosferatu because they look drained.

[Stevefriend13]

Pobres momias de guanajuato , pudieron haber hecho algo mjor

[WalksBehindTheRose]

this is one of the creepiest openings to a horror movie I've ever seen. i saw this movie when i was like 12 and i don't remember seeing the whole thing, but this part always stuck in my mind. its just so eerie.

[Cerocym]

Estas momias son las de guanajuato antes de que les hicieran un museo mas moderno y lujosos

[onlygaleo]

man, its amazing theme ¡¡¡¡

[dkempf1]

Just got it for my birthday, great movie!

[goldthorion]

Great opening.

[goldthorion]

Yes

[YellowTurtle13]

Oh my god, that was really creepy and sad. Does anyone know how those mummies got to be mummies? I mean, they have high heels and stuff... But they all look so scared and sad, like they knew what was happening...

[TheJackTR]

They look scared and sad, because they are dead.

[Mexicanceltic]

The mummies are real, Im supossed have filmed this scene in one of hundred catacumbs in Europe, maybe Italy, France or a rare case, in Germany. The process of mommyfication respond of a medieval usual manage of Plome(sorry my english sucks) this toxic metal repel the descomposition of body and preserv many parts of the flesh.

[mookalooka]

probably france. in the catacombs, there are millions of bodies. I got the chance to go there last summer

[dkupke]

I seem to remember hearing they actually filmed the mummies from a catacomb in mexico

[Mexicanceltic]

Yes, is in Guanajuato. and have one movie of my country named "Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras versus mmumies of Guanajuato, filmed in these catacombs precisely.

[dkupke]

A pro wrestler versus a bunch of mummies? sounds interesting

[Mexicanceltic]

Yes, you need to view ¡Its a fantastic movie filmed in 1976! want some refrences here.

[mysticalsoul55]

@dkupke I agree

[VanSisean]

@YellowTurtle13...Yes, when I first saw this movie, the mummies reminded me of Holocaust victims. I later found out they're the mummies of the citizens of Guanajuato, Mexico, who died during a cholera outbreak in 1833.

[dkempf1]

What didn't you like about it? Can you name a better vampire movie? I can't except maybe the 1922 original.

[dkempf1]

Great movie!

[EFODERFIX]

These mummies are in Italy, in the Capuccini's Church in Palermo, Sicily... it worths a visit...

[superCatia]

I imagined these were those famous mummies. Beautiful introduction for this movie.

[vogelmandrie]

Actually these mummies aren't in Palermo (been there twice) but in

Guanajuato, Mexico, also been there,

you can check it in Herzogs biography

in case.....

[VAMPIREBIRDIE]

Nice. Unfortunately the rest of the film didn't live up to its wonderful beginning....

[kriitikko]

One of the creepiest and best movie openings ever!

[meliane1]

Yes I agree, so creepy

[meliane1]

I find this opening really sad. I have the feeling of a great loneliness. It must be the music with the

pictures.

[Sasukingu]

yeah, his is the word... Sad.

[aciles7]

i will drink yur blood and it will never end)

[meliane1]

The girl who cries at the end of the extract is Isabelle Adjani. Whenever I watched the film I found this music very envoutante

[Blutmond666]

Wow, now I want to see this movie. But I would have to skip the mummies, because they scare me to death :D

[GordonMorrice]

Do you see the one at 0:44 ? That's you! And the one at 1:45 ? That's your dad!

[drearydancer]

The lady who screams at the end is hot. :p

[dkempf1]

I've never seen a better vampire movie.

[yankee999]

I loved this movie even as it proceeded to scare the pants off me. But there is one thing that his driven me batty (pun intended): Where exactly did they find all those dessicated corpses/mummies?

[merlin262005]

Mexico.

[GreatGrumbledook]

They had no need to find anything: Klaus Kinski does not act, he is! He does not play his roles he lives his roles and so he actually was the Nosferatu during the prelude and making of this movie and me still be it; anyway: This corpses can be found in the Kinski Lair in Germany, where I saw them myself. So may the Black Death and the army of the rats be with you!

[526107526107]

Cool Popol Vuh (libro de los muertos) y Guanaxuato mummys

[IlTurko]

popol one of the best bands ever

[MrSteveSStevenson]

stunning...

[zedizdeadbaby]

One of the darkest and scariest movie intro ever! Absolutely AMAZING!!!

[infantrydivision11]

@zedizdeadbaby yes its melody sounds very simple...but the texture is very complex. it sounds like something hat someone had been making for a long time..

[lens2optic]

truly unsettling.

[virulito]

Are this the Palermo catacombs?

[dragannov]

I remember first time i saw this in cinema, after this begining i was already under my seat

[spook394]

This intro with the music, Das Rheingold, is truly scary.

[ultrajuanus]

HORROROSCOPICO !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[phille22]

this is great directing

[lokuzzz]

for me this is the most terrifying and also the most beautiful opening of a movie ive ever seen...

[jso0125]

totaly

[plazaafrancia]

Please, can you tell me the title of the song? because i need it for a schoolwork, thank you

[zaluekos]

Popol Vuh - On The Way

[SAT9terminus]

Thank you for that share on the music score, fabulous composing, it gave it a macabre feature, and the superb chioce of European locations. A film to inspire many ideas.

[dkupke]

In terms of performance and faithfulness to the dracula story, this film is rather sub-par. In terms of its quality, it is a masterpiece in and of itself. The most amazing sets and locations, as well as an eerie and atmospheric score create a truly unforgettable film.

[humbertohpc]

O mais bonito, sensível cartaz de cinema que conheço.

[aerology]

I'd like  to know the title of the music

[ChristianPaul75]

I think it´s "Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts" (Brothers of Shadow - Sons of Light) by Popol Vuh of their soundtrack-album of the same title.

[obelixtyndefulano]

It is the prelude to the opera "Das Rheingold" by Richard Wagner. The song by Popul Voh is at another point in the movie as far as I know.

[obelixtyndefulano]

My mistake. It is Popul Voh, although the Wagner prelude is also in teh movie.

[Eberknecht]

I´d like to know the title of the music too and the name of the komponist.

[cargoben1990]

Great Klaus Kinski.

[apollosofia]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aa

[Xemmegas]

lmao @ apollosofia

[bondurango]

The first neo-realist, horror film, ever made. An absolute classic. Kinski's performance is a masterpiece.

[SrUlloa]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!

[buskerdog]

Perhaps the greatest opening credit sequence in all of film.

[peymaania]

Isabel Adjani-Sensational as Usual...

[colsohutube21]

I don't know why so many people trash this film? I guess the people who do must have been expecting more gore or blood. But I think in order to appreciate it, you have to hear the music, see the scenery, and become immersed in the timer period. It is a feast for the eyes and ears in my opinion!

[goodbyelonglive44]

@colsohutube21 yup....

[ChristianPaul75]

Genius. The outright most atmospheric, haunting opening scene to any horror movie.