Europe Endless - Horror: Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Dir F. W. Murnau, 1h34m, 1922)
Once more into the heart of Europe, to face its greatest fears. In this short season of four films, as we retrace our steps across Europe, we will consider German Expressionist cinema, suspense-as-horror in post-War France, the blood-soaked gallio of 1970s Italy, and the icy grandeur of Scandinavian horror. We must start where nightmares start, with the creation of one of European, nay, world cinema's great figures, a legal dispute that would launch another great iteration of the bloodthirsty undead in the form of 1931's Dracula , and a film that haunts horror to this day. We must begin our journey with F. W. Murnau, and the iconic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) , loosely adapting the Bram Stoker novel into the great vampire movie in which our heroes must content with plague, death, and the otherworldly form of the titular Nosferatu (Max Schreck). Nosferatu loosely adapts Stoker's novel; as with its subsequent imaginative remakes in 1979 (Dir. Wer...
