NOSFERATU
With
Max
Schreck,
Gustav
Von
Waggenheim
Directed
by
F.W.
Murnau
Notoriously
based
on
the
Bram
Stoker
novel
Dracula,
after
direct
permission
was
not
granted
to
use
the
original
material,
eccentric
German
Expressionist
director
Murnau
crafted
his
own
tale
around
the
story,
not
making
any
serious
efforts
to
divert
from
its
subject.
Jonathon
Harker
has
to
finalise
real
estate
matters
with
a
mysterious
nobleman
beyond
the
Carpathian
mountains.
He
is
in
fact
a
vampire
and
fixates
on
the
man's
wife
resembling
his
own
dead
bride.
Setting
out
to
take
her
as
his
own,
she
in
fact
becomes
the
only
hope
to
rid
the
world
of
the
undead
fiend,
but
not
without
sacrifice.
This
silent,
black
&
white
1922
film
is
an
absolute
classic
and
has
also
been
remade
in
the
'70s
by
Werner
Hertzog
and
spawned
the
fictitious
myth
around
actor
Max
Schreck
in
E.
Elias
Merhige's
Shadow
Of
The
Vampire
(in
2000).
A
Cleopatra
DVD
release
features
a
Gothic/Industrial
soundtrack
by
the
likes
of
Rozz
Williams,
Christian
Death
and
The
Electric
Hellfire
Club.
The
video
release
(pictured
above)
has
an
intense
church
organ
soundtrack
which
is
in
many
ways
more
effective
than
the
Gothed-up
version.
For
the
closing
of
the
2006
South
African
HORRORFEST,
members
of
the
bands
Terminatryx,
Lark,
Kobus!
and
Dawn
Treader
gave
new
life
to
this
work
of
art
by
performing
an
original
soundtrack
live
to
the
screen
for
a
packed
house
(www.HORRORFEST.info)
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