The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word NOSFERATU
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More clues leading to the result NOSFERATU
- Film of nature’s most unusual bloodsucker
- A fortune’s laid out for horror movie
- Vampire free of Saturn after invasion of Earth
- Vampire reincarnated as 4, 10?
- Horror film making a fortune about initiation into sex
- Fasten our Flies, an old German film
- A fortune’s blown exposing vampire
- Nature's of disturbed vampire
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The straight part
We know that "horror movie" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case horror movie = nosferatu.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.