The ending: that's it? (spoilers)

The opening scene was years prior…he heard her request as a younger girl for something to come to her….he answered it and decided they were tied together from then on.

It's what we call a tragedy. Bad things happen. So yes, if the story unfolded a different way, there may have been a happy ending for some or all of the characters.

The vampire didn't willingly die. If you recall, Ellen and the professor's scheme all along was for her to seduce and delay him, and keep him enthralled until the cock's first crow, which she did. The professor brought Thomas with him on their mission, which was in reality to keep Thomas away so Ellen could do what needed to be done. All of this was explained in the film.

Also explained, and shown early in the film, was the genesis of Ellen's connection to Nosferatu. She'd prayed for a companion to come to her, and the demon answered, and she unwittingly allowed herself to be spiritually conjoined with him. That's what doomed her, and set the tragedy in motion.

I greatly preferred Herzog's 1979 treatment of Nossie's death. It's clear he's been tricked into staying past dawn. The look of rage and betrayal on Kinski's face is priceless. I also like him dying like a roach or rodent after eating poison.

I was hoping for a more interesting ending too.

I liked the movie atmosphere, mysteriousness.

I felt like the ending was kind of abrupt. Like, I knew where the story was going based on other adaptations, but it was like I blinked and then the movie just ended.

I saw this with two of my buddies and when he died when the sun came up I elbowed my friend seated next to me and said, "Pussy too good, I guess."

There's a Russian story called Iran the Fool and this movie ending reminds me of it.

Ivan is a very nice person and demons keep trying to corrupt him. So, the demons give him things that are supposed to be evil but Ivan does good things with the gifts. He blesses the demons for their good deeds which means god forgives them and they disappear.

That's the ending of this film. The woman lovingly accepts the vampire and the curse on both of them disappears.

Connection:

As in the 1992 Dracula the woman and the count are implied to have been mystically connected either from a past life of the woman or somehow since she was a child. They mentioned that the woman had mystical experiences since she was a child.

That was a very weak part of the plot since the count's only motivation was to find her. Not explaining it made the events in the film just a plot device.

Also, it helped to see the 1992 movie because the woman was Dracula's wife when he was human and she had been reincarnated. Also, the Defoe character in this was Van Helsing in the 1992 film and he was the reincarnation of Dracula's priest trying to save him. None of that was said in this film and you shouldn't have to watch another film to get what they mean in this one lol.

Dude traveled a long way to get some flat tites.