Shadow of the Vampire (2000) asks "What if Max Schreck (Nosferatu, 1922) was actually a vampire?"
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) asks "What if Max Schreck (Nosferatu, 1922) was actually a vampire?"
The actor who played Count Orlok in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu was really creepy and weird looking. So this movie decided to play with the idea of: what if the actor himself was actually a vampire, hired to give a believable performance of a vampire in a movie?
The movie stars Wilem Dafoe as Max Schreck and John Malkovich as the movie's director, F. W. Murnau. Here's a trailer. I can never find it streaming on any of the subscription services, but you can usually pay money to rent it on services like Prime Video if you want. It's a fun movie.