I'd read good things about this movie, and thought the idea behind it had a lot of potential. That idea is that the actor playing the vampire in the 1920's film Nosferatu was a real vampire and only the director knew it. The director was so determined to make a great movie that he was willing to do virtually anything to achieve that. The director is ultimately more of a parasite than the vampire. Unfortunately, the execution of that idea didn't really work for me.
The best things about the film were the strong performances from Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich. The sets looked good, evoking a strong feeling of the time period in which the film is set. The script, however, didn't live up to the potential of the premise, and the directing wasn't bad, but didn't add anything.
Call it 5 on a scale of 1-10, maybe adding one if you particularly like one of the lead actors.
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