In most vampire movies, Count Dracula is elegant, a seductive European in white tie and tails. In the first vampire movie, the silent film adaptation called Nosferatu. A Symphony of Horror, directed by F. W. Murnau in 1922, he is tall, lanky, and stooped, with huge bat ears, ratlike teeth, and terrible staring eyes. His hands are large white spiders and his shadow alone horrifies. On the 100th anniversary of Murnau’s expressionist masterpiece, the curators at Staatliche Museenzu examine the art historical precedents of the film, and its influence on the art and culture that came after. —Laura Jacobs