Kurt Barlow is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Stephen King's 1975 horror novel 'Salem's Lot. The character is a powerful vampire who moves to the Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot with the intent to form a vampire colony of its residents. Due to his own predations as well as those of the residents he turns, the entire town is ultimately overrun by vampirism; only a few of the residents escape. Although his true age is unknown, he claims to be so old that he predates the founding of Christianity by centuries.
Reggie Nalder as Barlow, in Salem's Lot (1979)
Rutger Hauer as Barlow, climbing the ceiling in Salem's Lot (2004).
Donald Sutherland as Straker, in Salem's Lot (2004).
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife of his estate agent and brings the plague to their town.
An iconic shot of the shadow of Count Orlok ascending a staircase
Max Schreck in a promotional still for the film