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Forrest, Conan Neutron, KT Baldassaro and Kristina Oakes are joined by Matthew Film Guy to talk about the original 1922 F. W. Murnau film Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horror
This is the first in an entire month of Vampire Movies we are doing throughout October!
In 1922, producers Albin Grau and Enrico Dieckmann hired F.W. Murnau and the screenwriter Henrik Galeen to unofficially adapt Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic Vampire Novel Dracula for a German Audience. Following in the heels of Galeen’s script “The Golem: How He Came into the World” and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in 1920 as popular horror films.
They hoped to change just enough details to not have to pay the Stoker Estate, and changed Count Dracula to Count Orlok, and Gothic London to Germany… hiring Max Shreck to play Count Orlok as a hulking corpse-like visage who carries a plague to Germany.
The hope makes more sense when you realize that Bela Lugosi’s iconic portrayal of Count Dracula would come a full decade later.
Nosferatu is a 1922 German Expressionist Silent Horror Film, it was almost Lost after an angry and financially struggling Florence Stoker sued Grau and Dieckmann in 1922.. getting a court to rule that all copies must be destroyed, however, one copy resurfaced in 1929 in America where Dracula was Public Domain. #vampire #germany #germanexpressions #expressionist #nosferatu #dracula #countdracula #moviereview #podcast #filmpodcast #livepodcast #youtube #youtubelive #liveshow #live #movienight #filmtalk #moviereview #cinema #filmmaking #comedymovies #cinephile #moviebuff #directorlife #filmlovers #hollywood #berlin #tonight #horrormoviepodcast #horrorstories #silentartist #silentfilm Watch
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