> Eric's linking of the arrival at the castle in ENCHANTED APRIL and
> NOSFERATU seems plausible enough.  You may enjoy looking at the "original"
> welcome to a scary landscape sequence in, not surprisingly, the "original"
> NOSFERATU (Murnau 1922), where many of the techniques of this now cliche
> arrival moment were invented.
I'm sorry not to have been clearer. I *meant* the original
*Nosferatu*.
Eric
 
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