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Shadow of the Vampire (2000) More at IMDbPro »

• The locomotive that conveys the film crew to Czechoslovakia is named "Charon". In Greek myth, Charon was the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the dead across the river Styx.
  
  
• The part of Max Schreck was written specifically for Willem Dafoe
  
  
• Max Schreck (Willem Dafoe) recites Tennyson's poem 'Tithonus' at one point: 'The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, the vapors weep their burthen to the ground...' This is apropos, because the poem is about a character from Greek mythology who was immortal even though he continued to age. Just like Schreck, this made him a tragic figure.
  
  
• Cary Elwes has now starred in two film interpretations concerning Dracula, the other being Dracula (1992)
  
  
• The music played on the phonograph to set the mood for the actors in some of the scenes is the soundtrack of Dracula (1979) written by John Williams.
  
  
• Udo Kier, who appears as Albin Grau, played the Count himself in Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!! (1974) (a.k.a. Blood for Dracula) and Vampire Elder Dragonetti in Blade (1998)
  
  
• Based in part upon a legend that Max Schreck was in reality a vampire which is why he played the role of Orlock/Dracula so well. Some variations of the legend suggest that Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) was the only film Schreck made, though in reality he was already a stage and screen veteran by the time Nosferatu was shot, and would appear in many non-Vampiric roles before his death in 1936.
  
  
• Willem Dafoe was hired as The Green Goblin in Spider-Man (2002) after the producers watched his performance in this film.
  
  

• SPOILER: Originally titled "Burned to Light" in a reference to the filmmaking process (and the vampire's ultimate fate in the film); the title change came about because apparently some people misread the title as "Burn Ed to Light."
  
  

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