Orlok Mugs

Orlok Bauhaus design

Nosferatu

A vampire from Transylvania.

Back in 2016 I produced a series of portraits based on the classic monsters. This is the first piece. The villainous Count Orlok, as portrayed by Max Schreck in the silent film Nosferatu. Whilst this character started out as a knock off of Dracula, Orlok and his iconic design has become something of an icon itself.

COUNT ORLOK

This Nemons designed Vintage Cartoon Vampire design is the perfect goth gift for any classic horror movie fans with a sense of humor and style, featuring a hand drawn cartoon Count Orlok in a classic vintage cartoon creepy cute style

inspired by movies

The OG Count Orlok

COUNT ORLOK - CHOPPERS N BAIL BONDS

Count Orlok engraving design

Pop art inspired by Nosferatu.

CLASSIC VAMPIRE Tees AVAILABLE

"Blood is life! Blood is life!"

Nosferatu ART Horror fan art Count Orlok

"Your Precious Blood"

Count Orlok

Nosferatu chewing a bubblegum. When boredom strikes, just eat a bubblegum and pop it

The OG film vampire

Nosferatu does not like the sun... not one bit. I understand how he feels. This is my tiny homage to count Orlok portrayed by Max Schreck in the famous 1922 movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.

COUNT ORLOK - CARPATHIAN CLAMBAKE

Vampire recruitment design

The horror character from 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film.

Blood Brothers

count your blessings

Orlok the drained

The original Vampyre returns. Count Orlok creeping out.

The OG film vampire

Nosferatu Count Orlok

Orlok the drained, Dracula from the days untold

Count Orlock from 'Nosferatu- A Symphony of Horror' Another original oil painting from the series now available in my Halloween Horror Collection.

Bunnicula was once the pet of Dracula. He lived in Romania, during 1475. In New Orleans, 1833, he lived with Dracula. 200 years ago, he was locked away in a chest for centuries without any food. Eventually, he met Jean Lafitte after he was freed from the chest. The two worked together to defeat the British by using a special locket that showed the future, where they got a glimpse of Bunnicula's future of meeting Chester and Harold.

The Nosferatu design is inspired by F.W. Murnau's German Expressionist classic Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror starring Max Shrek as the terrifying vampire Count Orlok. Released in 1922, the film was a thinly veiled adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula and was the subject of a successful lawsuit by the Stoker estate. Only a few prints survived yet still Nosferatu came to be widely regarded as a masterpiece. Werner Herzog remade the film in 1979 starring Klaus Kinski.

The results are in and everyone agrees: the best vampires are repulsive, rat-like Nosferatu-types, not suave, seductive Dracula-types. Those are the types there are.

I love the scene in Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens after Count Orlok bites Ellen Hutter's "lovely neck." As Orlok slowly looks up, with his twisted claw wrapped around the head of his victim, he stares directly into the camera for a beat, which makes for one of the creepiest scenes ever. As I often do, I captured my own still of this scene for reference and tried to pay tribute to the moment by painting in a dark, minimal 2-tone feel inspired by the grim but stark look of the movie. To contrast the near-black brushwork, I created a graphic background with my signature gradient banding in purple. Then I fit everything into an oval with a grainy vignette to sort of fuse vintage and modern into one look and tie it all together.