Written by Old Bluffer 3rd Feb 2007
Kindly written by Chris Gray
Once aboard the ship, Count Orlok begins to pick one sailor off after another, until only the Captain and his first-mate (q.v.) remain.
Sensing foul-play the first-mate disappears below deck to open the coffins and is confronted by Orlok, and makes for a hasty escape. The Captain watches as his first-mate appears on deck and continue backwards in horror, falling overboard into the sea.
His fears of an unknown passenger aboard are confirmed, so he ties himself to some part of the boat that no doubt has a complicated nautical term, but we don't know what that is.
[I'm not quite clear on why you'd tie yourself up if you knew you were being stalked by a vampire?! - Old Bluffer]
Seconds later he's confronted by Orlok, just as the sun sets over the horizon...
"Ahoy there, me be thinkin' ye need some finger nail trimmers!"
Reviewer Note
Really not to sure how to categorise this one - mainly because he's alive as the sun sets (goes black and cuts to another scene) yet it's easy to see that Orlok killed him once the ship arrives.
Does Orlok get shown draining blood much in this film? If so, I'd say it would be fair to add exsanguination as the most likely form of killing.
By the way, Demeter's full name is Käpitän der Demeter, but I didn't trust those funny ä characters not to break our database
He tied himself up so he couldn't drag him off I guess
you need to have a slash before the second "small" code on the caption
Even after watching this a few times I really could not see any tangible reason to tie yourself to an immovable object when faced with a vampire, but I guess it beats being thrown overboard like all the other sailors.
As for exsanguination; he doesn't actually visibly suck the blood of anybody but Hutter's wife, and she lives to talk (german) about it.