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Speakers): Natalie Deam

One of the founding films of the monster movie genre, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror offers a unique glimpse at early cinematic techniques of suspense and horror. Born of the German Expressionist movement and almost lost after Bram Stoker’s heirs ordered the unauthorized adaptation to be destroyed, Nosferatu is a subtle, complex, and slow-burning look at fear, pandemic, and the supernatural. Murnau’s monster, Count Orlok (Max Schreck) is an unexpected antagonist: with all of the modern myths and clichés surrounding vampires, to encounter one of the original vampires, he strikes us as monstrous in ways we don’t remember and human in ways we don’t expect.