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Nosferatu With Radiohead

A Silents Synced Film

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F.W. Murnau, meet Thom Yorke. Radiohead’s mind-blowing “Kid A” (2000) and “Amnesiac” (2001) albums breathe new life into the first great vampire movie.

The first, albeit unofficial, adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, this film differs from subsequent versions in its vivid portrait of the vampire as a ghoulish fiend, bald, with rodent-like teeth, digits and ears. He preys in the shadows and merges with the darkness. If this is a creature of the Expressionist imagination, Nosferatu stands out for Murnau’s decision to film on location in medieval Baltic towns; the horror derives its special frisson from placing the supernatural within the natural world.

Radiohead’s music may have emerged 80 years after the images, yet the combination proves weirdly effective. Throw out your organs!

Director

F.W. Murnau

Cast

Max Schreck

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Country of Origin

Germany

Year

1922

Language

No Dialogue

19+
95 min

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Screenwriter

Henrik Galeen

Cinematography

Fritz Arno Wagner

Art Director

Albin Grau

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