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The first (and arguably the best) attempt to film Bram Stoker's novel, Nosferatu is much more than just the most influential horror film ever made and one of the great classics of German cinema. Friedrich Murnau fused the imagined fears of the Dracula story with the very real angst of post-war Europe, where the returning survivors of the industrial killing on the battlefields of Belgium brought with them the Spanish Flu pandemic, ultimately claiming the lives of another 100 million people.

Murnau's Nosferatu is a rat-like, nightmarish carrier of a new sort of plague for which science has no cure. The people of the city of Wismar are taken one by one. Only a woman willing to sacrifice herself to distract the vampire at sunrise can stop the plague.

An innovative movie, Murnau was probably the first director to use the technique of montage - where events happen simultaneously - to create tension. The location for the outside of the Vampire's castle was in Slovakia, but the inside was filmed in a studio in Berlin  where one of Murnau's greatest admirers, a young man named Alfred Hitchcock, was making his first silent movies.

The Parr Project has edited the original to 45 minutes. Why edit more than half an hour out of the movie? Modern audiences are used to faster paced movies, often with less time spent on individual shots. Editing makes the movie more accessible, and hopefully after seeing the short version, people will be inspired to go and watch the full movie.

To accompany the film the Parr Project perform a live soundtrack composed by Oliver Parr



Bram Stoker
bram stoker
murnau
Director : Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
max schrek
Max Schrek : Nosferatu
gustav von wangenheim
Gustav von Wangenheim : Hutter
greta schroder
Greta Schröder : Ellen
alexander granach
Alexander Granach: Knock

Info

Rotten Tomatoes score : 97% certified fresh
IMDB score : 8.0

Full version : 117 minutes
Parr Project special edit  : 47 minutes
Music : Oliver Parr

Did you know.....?

After losing a copyright battle with Bram Stoker's widow, the producers of Nosferatu were ordered to destroy all copies of the movie. Fortunately a few survived.

Max Schrek, who plays the vampire, was so convincing that there began a rumour that he was a real vampire....inspiration for the movie 'Shadow of the Vampire.'