Count Orlok

Graf Orlok (Count Orlok, also spelled Orlock) is the vampire character performed by Max Schreck in the silent movie Nosferatu.

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Vampire - Character - Max Schreck - Silent movie - Nosferatu

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In the movie, Count Orlok is a nobleman from the Carpathian Mountains who moves to Bremen, Germany, and brings death with him. He kills every person on the ship that transported him and then terrorizes Bremen. In the end, Orlok attacks a woman in her room, but the light from the rising sun kills him.

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Carpathian Mountains - Bremen - Germany

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Orlok is the main model for a style of fictional vampire that was called nosferatu after the movie. Unlike Dracula, upon which the character was based, Orlok was neither attractive nor aristocratic. He had the appearance of a rat and brought disease and plague wherever he went. In terms of horror movie stereotypes, other vampires based upon this character are creatures bordering between a vampire and a mutant monster.

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Dracula - Rat - Disease - Plague - Mutant

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Orlok's appearance served as inspiration to many creatures in cinema and in TV series. Some of the most recent one being the underworld devils known as the Turok-Han in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer series. The Master, who appeared early in the series, also had many similarities. On the episode of Buffy's spin-off show, Angel, a vampire called The Prince of Lies is implied to be the actual Count Orlok in an episode called "Why We Fight".

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Cinema - TV - Turok-Han - Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Master - Spin-off - Angel

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There's also a clan called Nosferatu in the role-playing game '. The main stereotype of the Nosferatu Clan vampire is the exact image of Count Orlok as portrayed by Max Schreck in the 1922 movie.

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Role-playing game - Stereotype - Max Schreck - 1922

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