NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (CERT. PG)
GERMANY 1922 DIRECTED BY F.W. MURNAU
BLACK & WHITE SILENT 1h 34m
WITH: MAX SCHRECK, GRETA SCHRÖDER, GUSTAV VON WANGENHEIM,
ALEXANDER GRANACH
An outstanding film from a golden age of German cinema, ‘Nosferatu’ presents an unauthorised version of Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’, embellished with a visual structure strongly derived from the Romantic Movement.
Film starts at 7.30pm
Best Films of All Time (Horror category), The Guardian
‘In this film, Murnau – one of the three most important directors in Weimar Germany –
made horror a form of high art.’ – Stephen Brockmann
‘Murnau was so skilful in his choice of locations and lighting that he was able to bring together coherently the artificial and the natural.’ – Eric Rhode
‘Murnau demonstrated how real settings could be suffused with poetic, imaginative, subjective elements, showing how fantastic nature itself can seem.’ – S.S. Prawer
‘Murnau’s compositions have a certain imbalance, a deliberate incompleteness, which relates them inexplicably to the world around them.’ – Gilberto Perez Guillermo
