Accompanying these film making techniques, the Judderman himself, was played by a 6'5" ballet dancer, as, according to McGrath, he was the type of figure that could sort of provide an "eerie, almost floaty movement", just by walking about on screen, which they were looking for as an homage to the way vampires, such as Count Orlok of "Nosferatu" tended to movie in the older Expressionist movies shot in Germany.