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Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979 · directed by Werner Herzog · 107 min
23,290 feet · Prominence
1,232nd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw13

Lifetime worldwide gross $0m, re-releases included; about $0m in 2026 money.

Rank10,848 of 11,051In 197964 of 64

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise86

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics86 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy58

Judged directly: Herzog vampire imagery endures without listing.

Verdict58 of 100IMDb7.4 from 48kWikipedia20k views a monthAge47 years

Scored beside it · 707 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 13 praise 86 legacy 58averages 52, placing it at23,290 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Klaus Kinski

In these careers — elevation for this film

Isabelle Adjani18,676 ftKlaus Kinski18,489 ftBruno Ganz18,228 ft