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Film Screening: Nosferatu (1922)

Film Screening: Nosferatu (1922)
Date
Wed September 23rd 2015, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Location
Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113

Speakers): Natalie Deam

One of the founding films of the monster movie genre, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror offers a unique glimpse at early cinematic techniques of suspense and horror. Born of the German Expressionist movement and almost lost after Bram Stoker鈥檚 heirs ordered the unauthorized adaptation to be destroyed, Nosferatu is a subtle, complex, and slow-burning look at fear, pandemic, and the supernatural. Murnau鈥檚 monster, Count Orlok (Max Schreck) is an unexpected antagonist: with all of the modern myths and clich茅s surrounding vampires, to encounter one of the original vampires, he strikes us as monstrous in ways we don鈥檛 remember and human in ways we don鈥檛 expect.