50 REASONS TO WATCH NOSFERATU (IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES!)

On Rotten Tomatoes it has a "Certified Fresh" label and holds a 97% "fresh" rating (as of 2015, it is Rotten Tomatoes' second best-reviewed horror film of all time). The website's critical consensus reads, "One of the silent era's most influential masterpieces, Nosferatu's eerie, Gothic feel—and a chilling performance from Max Schreck as the vampire—set the template for the horror films that followed." It was ranked twenty-first in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema". Prana Film declared bankruptcy after Stoker's estate, acting for his widow, Florence Stoker, sued for copyright infringement and won. The court ordered all existing prints of Nosferatu burned, but one purported print of the film had already been distributed around the world.