Back in my day, the only easy way to find this cursed wannabe-sequel to Herzog's Nosferatu was via a DVD-R bootleg from a downtown specialty video store. But now it's just sitting there for free right on Tubi! Today's kids will never understand.

Klaus Kinski cultivated a reputation of existing on the knife edge of sanity. This was the movie that finally made him unemployable. His on-set behaviour ranged from unprofessional (reneging on a promise to shave his head) to destructive (refusing to hit his marks) to actually criminal (sexually assaulting two of the female performers while cameras rolled - footage of which is in the finished movie!!!). A small army of directors came and went (the final product is…

Every time I’d find myself sinking into the vibe of this, Klaus Kinski’s Nosferatu would turn up looking like a middle-aged professor mole-rat cosplaying as Kieth Richards and I’d laugh myself completely out of it.

I wish you could just cut his scenes out of this, have it be called ‘In Venice’ and then just sit back and enjoy it as a Rollin-esque mood piece. It would probably not make a lot of difference to the coherency the story. And would remove the unpleasant rapeyness. Plus, then you could just soak in the beauty and opulence of a dilapidated Venice.

It’s the real star here; tiny passageways, catacombs, stained mansions and bridges over foggy waterways. Then throw in some Christopher…

A professor (Christopher Plummer) visits Paris during a carnival to investigate the last appearance of Nosferatu (Klaus Kinski). The vampire is awakened from his 200 year slumber.

This is a sequel to Werner Herzog’s 1979 film Nosferatu. But don’t let that sell you. This movie is completely terrible with very little to recommend. This is basically a soft core porn version of the original film. But, again, don’t let that sell you. This film lost three directors due to Kinski being vile on the set. At one point, the entire crew left the set in protest.  

Kinski was supposed to be in full makeup like he was in the 1979 version, but when he arrived for the shoot he…

Nonsensical Italian horror with four different directors? You just know you are in for a mind meltingly good time! Incoherent, yet totally ambitious in it's unintentional lunacy Nosferatu in Venice is pure late 80s trash.

A professor travels to Paris to investigate the last known appearance of the elusive Nosferatu during a 1786 carnival. And boy does he ever find him! Weirdo Klaus Kinski busts onto the scene delivering one wild and bizarre performance as the naughty Nosferatu! Running around like a lunatic ripping off women's shirts like nobody's business. Well to be fair some sleep in the nude so its not always ripping but removing the sheets. And one of them seems to become his girlfriend? Who knows man.…

A bizarre oddity of a film. Nosferatu in Venice was conceived as a sequel to Werner Herzog's reimaging of the classic 1922 vampire film. The film was plagued by production issues; cycling through no less than four directors and everyone suffering at the hands of Klaus Kinski's famous difficult behaviour on set. But yet in spite of all this, there's definitely something interesting here. The plot focuses on a professor of vampirism on the trail on Nosferatu on his last known sighting in Venice. The Venetian setting really does this film a lot of favours: coming through in the beautiful architecture and decadent costumes. The narrative suffers from pacing issues but it really flies when it wants to. Kinski may…

Nosferatu in Venice is a true cinematic oddity, a film sunk by numerous production issues and Kinski’s legendary, lecherous behavior. It doesn’t help that Augusto Caminito’s film lives in the shadow of Herzog’s masterful adaptation either, but that doesn’t mean the film isn’t worthy of tracking down. If you can get past NiV’s choppy nature, there’s a solid dreamlike narrative, with Kinski’s Nosferatu aimlessly wandering around the canals of Venice, attacking and bedding beautiful young women, one after another. It’s rather unsettling when Kinski strides out of the thick Venetian fog, looking like Edgar Winter and sporting shoes that could’ve come right off the rack at Hot Topic, a fact NiV’s third act takes full advantage of by letting its…

A review done by request… made last year. When I reviewed 1979’s Nosferatu the Vampyre, more than one mutual wanted me to see its pseudo-sequel. Once you hear the details of its disastrous production and real-life villain Klaus Kinski’s behavior which included alleged sexual assaults… my hesitancy in viewing such a movie is hopefully palpable for the reader. Note that these assaults bear no impact on my rating.

As there was no good reason to turn down a request made by multiple people, the stake was finally driven into its heart, metaphorically speaking. Nosferatu devastated the city w/ a plague in 1786; a princess (who of course is a spitting image of the title character’s lost-lost love) invites professor Christopher…

"I'm here, my beloved. I've overcome rivers, conquered mountains, wandered across the sky, in order to be with you."

Professor Paris Catalano (Christopher Plummer), an expert on vampirism, is called to Venice by Princess Helietta Canins (Barbara De Rossi). Helietta is convinced the infamous vampire Nosferatu (Klaus Kinski), who's known to have visited the city 200 years ago, lies buried in a sealed tomb since then, in the basement of her family's estate ...

Nosferatu a Venezia ("Nosferatu in Venice", also known as Vampire in Venice and Prince of the Night) is a supernatural horror film produced, written and directed by Augusto Caminito.

Originally developed as a sequel to Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (my review) when Kinski agreed…

"Nosferatu in Venice" is a 1988 gothic horror film directed by Augusto Caminito (and Klaus Kinski). Very much a cinematic obscurity that came as a byproduct of pure production hell, "Nosferatu in Venice" apparently was a hard film to get a hold of for a period of time. Severin has remedied this situation, but it's still clear as day that this was something that deserved being buried for a bit of time. With the vision to create a sequel to Werner Herzog's version of "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979), Austo Caminito actually signed one to do a producer role only for the feature. Through the hazardous upheaval of a few directors, it got to the point where he had to take…