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Friedrich Wilheim Murnau’s Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) is widely acknowledged not just as a classic of German Expressionist cinema but also as the silver screen’s first interpretation of Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire classic Dracula ...

Since the dawn of cinema, vampires have existed in cinematic culture. Occasionally, the genre seems dead. The viewer, the creator, everyone involved has done everything they can do with the infamous bloodsuckers. Then a film drops onto the scene to ...

Episode 1 “A SYMPHONY OF HORROR” The Sound Of Fear begins its journey through the history of horror film music, starting with silent film and the early sound era. Episode Credits: Narrated by Lisa Brigden Written, Produced, and Directed by Charlie ...

Vampires have long stood as an icon of horror cinema with their roots dating all the way back to F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu in 1922. The problem with being such a popular staple of the genre is that, after so many ...

It sounds banal to call someone a legend in his own time, but that is, in fact, the best way to describe German filmmaker Werner Herzog; who, in recent years, seems to have settled quite comfortably into the role of ...

Download MP3 | Download OGG Thirty-five years after it’s initial release, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Werner Herzog’s haunting tone poem of death and loneliness is as potent today as it was in 1979. To celebrate the film’s recent arrival on blu-ray ...

Horror, in its most honest form, is a distillation of cultural and historical trauma, a generation’s culmination of disaster, inhumanity, and marginalization. Dracula reflected the Western xenophobic anxieties of an increasingly modernized society. Cthulhu reminds us of our cosmic helplessness. ...

Werner Herzog has proclaimed F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922) to be the greatest film to ever come out of Germany. A hyperbolic statement perhaps—especially considering the excellence of his own version—but understandable in context of the German New Wave, where filmmakers ...

F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)—the first (unofficial) adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the most atmospheric and doom-laden of vampire movies, has been restored in HD, to its former silver nitrate sheen by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau ...

Download MP3 | Download OGG Steve Head and David Kleiler welcome special guest, Bret Wood, Vice President and Executive Producer at Kino Lorber, to discuss Kino’s new blu-ray release of F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), the film that Werner Herzog ...