I thought it did work though. It makes it sound like the Count knows English, he just hadn't had a chance to use it for...a long time.

Good point.

Did you intend to put 'Val Helsing'?

Know many hungarian that made it into a Ramones song?

Do'h. Bauhaus.

You should make her watch "Ed Wood."

Belllaaa Lugosiiiiiiiiiizzzzz deeeehd! un-dehd un-dehd undehd!

Yeah, but that's a true story. Lugosi was apparently quite the ladies man back in the day before the old age, obscurity, and drugs. I think she also admired him for learning English phonetically which was a big deal to learn back then. She learned it by watching movies.

So crude, yet such a moment of incredible tension.

er...Kronos Quartet.

See, I respect this film for its historical importance and I really like some parts and scenes in it, but the whole is a difficult watch, primarily because it WAS a transitional film. The lack of a score makes it difficult for me for some reason (but, like you, I'm not a fan of the Glass score, either).

Now Kino's new release of Nosferatu on the other hand...

I think that the lack of a score makes this movie that much more ahead of its time. More movies are trying the music-less approach to build tension, to great effect too.

I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say "ahead of its time" in regards to its lack of score... was that really a conscious stylistic choice?

Regardless, sometimes the music-less approach works as far as tension goes... sometimes it doesn't. The recent film The Mist, for example, sometimes pulls it off - and sometimes the film drags because of it.