It is "people very, very poor, sort of peasant background – very, very rural, almost cut off from even the home origen countries that they might have been in," she said.

He filmed the new “Nosferatu” inside studios and outside castles in Eastern Europe, striving for authenticity in everything from 1830s peasant garb to retrograde psychological beliefs.

In the late 1960s, Fred was a humanitarian-aid volunteer in Laos when he discovered that his country was taking the lives of peasants there by the thousands.

That includes marrying a much older, undead Greek peasant shunned by this social caste’s peers.

The lone woman residing at the vampire house, Nadja grew up as a poor peasant girl on the island of Antipaxos.