- The 1979 album Nosferatu by Hugh Cornwell and Robert Williams is an homage to the film, featuring a still from the movie on the front cover and a dedication to Max Schreck.
- The television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot (1979) took inspiration from Nosferatu for the appearance of its villain, Kurt Barlow (Reggie Nalder). The film's producer Richard Kobritz stated that: "We went back to the old German Nosferatu concept where he is the essence of evil, and not anything romantic or smarmy, or, you know, the rouge-cheeked, widow-peaked Dracula."[64]
- French progressive rock outfit Art Zoyd released Nosferatu (1989) on Mantra Records, composed the cues to correspond with an edited and unrestored version of the film.[1][65]
- Bernard J. Taylor adapted the story into the 1995 musical Nosferatu the Vampire.[66] The title character is called Nosferatu, and the plot of the musical follows the plot of Murnau's film, yet other characters’ names are reverted to names from the novel (Mina, Van Helsing, etc.).
- Count Orlok has made multiple appearances in SpongeBob SquarePants, most notably at the end of the episode "Graveyard Shift", where Count Orlok is revealed to be responsible for flickering lights in the Krusty Krab.[67]
- The 2000 film Shadow of the Vampire, directed by E. Elias Merhige and written by Steven A. Katz, is a fictionalized account of the making of Nosferatu in which Max Schreck is portrayed as an actual vampire whom F.W. Murnau allows to kill his actors and crew on film in order to create a sense of "realism". It stars Willem Dafoe as Schreck and John Malkovich as Murnau. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards at the 73rd Academy Awards.[68]
- An operatic version of Nosferatu was composed by Alva Henderson in 2004, with libretto by Dana Gioia,[69] was released on CD in 2005.[70]
- On 28 October 2012, as part of the BBC Radio "Gothic Imagination" series, the film was reimagined on BBC Radio 3 as the radio play Midnight Cry of the Deathbird.[71]
- In 2023, the Los Angeles experimental puppet troupe Freak Nature Puppets performed Nosferatu's Sweet 16. The comedy musical was a loose sequel to the original film, and followed the story of Count Orlok's daughter. Nosferatu's Sweet 16 premiered at the Spaghetti Festival at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles.[72]
- In 2022 (the hundredth anniversary of Nosferatu) Beatles Revolver cover artist and musician Klaus Voormann created a Nosferatu cover for the 50th anniversary of German Playboy
- In 2024, Void ov Voices, the one man Black metal band of Attila Csihar, the vocalist of Mayhem, did a tour where he performed the film music during the projection.[73][74]
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