The Count Orlok more commonly known as the nosferatu type vampire as depicted in
http://en.wikipedia....atu_the_Vampyre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu
Or the more popular dracula type vampire as in Bram Stoker's dracula
These two vampires essentially have the same background story, which makes sense seeing as how the nosferatu was written to bypass copyright laws. However the way the two were depicted are completely different. Where Dracula is refined, Count Orlok is ugly and more bestial. Count Dracula is seductive, but Orlok is a bringer of rats and plague.
Count Dracula chooses his victims and you do not know he is a vampire until it is too late. Count Orlok on the other hand is unmistakably inhuman. As such they operate differently as seen when they first arrived in London. Dracula goes around seducing his victims and feeds on them, but Orlok infests the city with rats, causing a terrible plague.
Essentially the choice is between the Dracula vampire which is the more subtle type, blending in with everyday people. You don't know who he is until it is too late. Or the Orlok type who brings about death to everyone around indiscriminately.
Edited by frostz, 17 September 2011 - 07:28 PM.
