It is a faithful reproduction of the 1922 original. Not a movie for everyone but the Count is extremely scary, specially when he talks. There will be an obvious comparison to Dracula. When it originally came out 102 years ago, yes, 102 years, they tried to get all copies of it destroyed and thankfully they were unable to because it was F.W. Murnau, forgive the spelling, version of Dracula. I believe Shudder has the original and if you don't mind watching a silent movie, worth the watch.