The premise of director E. Elias Merhige's 2000 film \"Shadow of the Vampire\" is weirdly believable. It posits that filmmaker F.W. Murnau, when he was making the landmark 1922 horror movie \"Nosferatu,\" was so committed to cinematic realism that he located and hired an actual vampire to portray the vampire in his movie. In actuality, the star of \"Nosferatu\" was a German actor named Max Schreck, but Schreck's stiff, monstrous, rat-like performance as the vampiric Count Orlok was so convincing that it doesn't take much imagination to buy that he was actually a vampire.
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