Everybody knows him. Sometimes it seems like everybody has played him. Bela Lugosi, of course. (“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”) Christopher Lee. Klaus Kinski. Gary Oldman. Leslie Nielsen.

From the iconic and controversial 1922 silent film that was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a 1970s remake by Werner Herzog to a meta-horror flick about the making of one of the best horror movies of all time, here are three versions of the Nosferatu story I think you should watch.

Eggers's preference for 'Nosferatu' over 'Dracula' In a chat with Screen Rant, Eggers revealed, "I mean, as much as I love the novel, it is a little bit overstuffed with Victoriana [Victorian period].