“…Some really good vampire movies have been made since Kael wrote those words, but German director F.W. Murnau's 1922 version remains a definitive adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. …”

“…Lotte Eisner's elegiac description sets the mood for Murnau's version of the Faust legend, starring Emil Jannings as the subtly mischievous Mephistopheles, and Swedish actor Gosta Ekman as a subtly homoerotic Faust: "This film starts with the most remarkable and poignant images the German chiaroscuro ever created. The chaotic density of the opening shots, the light dawning in the mists, the rays beaming through the opaque air, are breathtaking... …”