A contemporary rendition of Nosferatu can be interesting only when viewed through the prism of an ontological interpretation of certain dichotomies, such as spirit and body, light and darkness, the masculine and the feminine, the warm and the cold, East and West, life and death. In this sense, blood is a unique embodiment of such dichotomies: when it circulates through our veins, being concealed from our eyes, it symbolizes life, but when we see blood spilled, it stands for death. Nosferatu needs to imbibe blood, in order to go beyond the ordinary and the commonplace, to be in contact with the unknown and the transcendental. In his quest for the unknowable, he is poised between life and death.