 It's probably, like many vampire films, owes quite a nod to Nosferatu, because the Vordelak looks a lot like that. You do have to suspend your disbelief. There are aspects of this that completely work. The atmosphere, the foppishness of the emissary, the strange daughter of the man he's hoping to have help him, and what her story is, which I don't want to give away too much of the film. But when we finally see the Vordelak...