By Michael Wilmington Get more information for this movie.
Some actors overpower movies with their talent and brilliance.
Others dominate the screen by sheer physical presence. And a current model of the former is Willem Dafoe, who plays a fanciful version of Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire . Vampire , co-produced by Murnau and Schreck admirer Nicolas Cage, is a highly fictionalized fantasy film about the 1921 shooting of Nosferatu . And though some of it is disappointing, Dafoe isn't. The real-life Schreck, in full vampire makeup, was an incredible nightmare vision.