MOVIE: HERZOG'S "NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE" (1979)

Cross-posted with LA & OC Weirdo Music & Art Forum

We've seen Murnau's original from 1922 and Eggers's Hollywood remake from this year. Now let's go see the best version, IMO, Werner Herzog's version starring the one-and-only Klaus Kinski as the vampire. Kinski portrays the vampire as a creepy AF, but also melancholic, pathetic and doomed creature.

Date: Thursday, October 16, 8:00 pm

Venue: Frida Cinema
305 E 4th St #100, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone: (714) 285-9422

Dinner 6:30 TBD

Tickets: $13 https://thefridacinema.org/movies/nosferatu-the-vampyre/
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Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 94% positive rating

Trailer here

Director: Werner Herzog Run Time: 107 min. Release Year: 1979 Language: German

Starring: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Adjani, Klaus Kinski, Roland Topor, Walter Ladengast

Werner Herzog’s only horror film, Nosferatu The Vampyre, is finally coming to The Frida Cinema!

Jonathan Harker is sent away to Count Dracula's castle to sell him a house in Virna, where he lives. But Count Dracula is a vampire, an undead ghoul living off men's blood. Inspired by a photograph of Lucy Harker, Jonathan's wife, Dracula moves to Virna, bringing with him death and plague... An unusually contemplative version of Dracula, in which the vampire bears the cross of not being able to get old and die.

It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly-kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) is leaving on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife Lucy (Isabelle Adjani) begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings, Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large, gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale, wraith-like figure with deep-sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski). The events that transpire slowly convince Harker that he is in the presence of a vampire. Even still, he doesn’t realize the magnitude of danger he, his wife and his town are about to experience.

A dreamlike homage to F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic, Nosferatu The Vampyre conjures a world where dread seeps into every frame—an atmosphere of fevered melancholy now revived in a new 4K restoration thanks to our friends at American Genre Film Archive!