Nosferatu With Live Musical Accompaniment by Brown Whörnet
1922, NR, 84 min.
Directed by F.W. Murnau, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroeder, Gustav Von Wagenheim.

In the realm of vampire films, this 1922 silent is the original motherlode. No one since has matched vampire Max Schreck’s creepy loathsomeness. Director Murnau’s German Expressionistic compositional touches delineate the story’s visceral drama. Austin’s macabre Brown Whörnet will perform live musical accompaniment. Monday through Wednesday Nosferatu is part of a double bill that opens at 9:15pm with Shadow of the Vampire (reviewed in Film Listings). On Thursday, Nosferatu is triple-billed with Shadow of the Vampire and a midnight screening of Andy Warhol’s Dracula.

This article appears in March 9 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.