Double Feature!
NOSFERATU & THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
with live score by the Invincible Czars
Thursday, October 19th at 7:00 PM
$32 Public | $25 Members
Nosferatu is
most certainly the most important horror film of the silent era and one of the
first vampire movies — though it was almost completely lost when Bram
Stoker's widow sued the filmmakers for copyright infringement and most of
the prints of the movie were destroyed. Nosferatu tells the
story of Hutter and Ellen, a couple from the village of Wisborg. Hutter
travels to Transylvania to sell a piece of property in Wisborg to Count
Orlok. Hutter stays in Orlok’s castle only to learn that the Count is a
vampire. Orlok purchases a house next to Hutter’s, locks Hutter in the castle
and travels to Wisborg. On the way, he manages to possess Hutter’s employer and
Ellen and strike the village with an outbreak of the plague. Hutter rushes home
to stop him before it’s too late. (Germany, 1922, 94min., NR, Silent | Dir.
F.W. Murnau)
Described as “the first true horror
film”, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, presents a world of
nightmarish delirium - rife with distorted perspectives - to tell the story of a
hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist (Conrad Veidt)
to commit a series of murders. Among the most influential films of the silent
era, Caligari's
Expressionist style helped inspire the composition of the film noir genre of
the 1940s. The haunting score from The Invincible Czars’ amplifies
the atmosphere of a warped world of fear and menace. (Germany, 1920, 76
Mins, Silent w/ English intertitles | Dir. Robert Wiene)
