NOSFERATU — Zip-Up Hoodie

Count Orlok, now on a zip-up hoodie. F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) is the oldest surviving vampire film, and still the most disturbing: no elegant aristocrats, but a grotesque rat-creature, bald, with pointed ears and impossibly long fingers.

This piece opens my vampire series. Max Schreck as Orlok doesn't seduce: he repels. He's the plague made flesh, a shadow climbing the stairs and crawling under your skin. Murnau filmed the vampire as disease, as death walking, and that image was burned into horror cinema forever.

The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Stoker's widow sued and a court ordered every copy destroyed. Luckily a few survived in secret, which is why we can still see this masterpiece of German Expressionism today.

Macabre detail: legend has it Max Schreck was so convincing as a vampire that some believed he was an actual vampire. He wasn't, but the myth fed his character forever.

The main design recovers the original German Prana-Film poster, printed large across the back, while the front carries the Hand Printed logo specially reworked for this design. All in handmade screen printing on the zip-up hoodie, heavyweight cotton, warm, to carry the classic with you all winter.

Zip-up hoodie. 100% cotton. Handmade one-color screen print on black cotton, printed on both sides.