Canadian Guy Maddin has cleverly transformed a performance by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet into a counterfeit black-and-white silent film, something you'd swear must've been made 80 or 90 years ago, complete with corny dialogue boxes, flickering images, deep shadows, dazzling bursts of overexposure, eerie blue and green tinting, and superimposed blood stains that seep across the screen, not to mention the luridly melodramatic acting style of the dancers (David Moroni as Van Helsing, Tara Birtwhistle as Lucy, and Zhang Wei-Qiang as Dracula) whose performances heighten the overwrought eroticism of this tribute to and emulation of F. W. Murnau's classic NOSFERATU, but unfortunately Maddin's little avant-garde experiment lacks the creepiness and urgency of the original, so after being enthralled for the first few minutes, I quickly grew bored and spent the rest of the movie glancing at my watch.