Del Toro owned more than five thousand comic books and several puppets of Nosferatu.

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Scary movies have been around since a German vampire named Nosferatu made his silent-screen debut in 1922.

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He remains a benign Nosferatu, halfway between the demon that dogs romantic souls, luring them into a hellfire of trouble, and a treasured imaginary friend.

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