The always lovely Catherine McCormack is completely convincing as diva Greta, the leading lady who has been promised by Murnau as Schreck's tasty reward. This silliness is also what saves the film and, simultaneously, greatly hampers its overall effect. Happily, the campiness of all the bloodsucking business is indulged enough to keep the proceedings from becoming too heavy-footed aesthetically. In the process, Method acting, here seen at its apotheosis and taken to its logical extreme, is both glorified and humorously critiqued. This is a film that, for better or worse, must be connected to on a visual and intellectual level, or not at all.
Wonders never cease.
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