SILENT SPOOKIES: FW Murnau's Nosferatu & Edison's Frankenstein

SEE A COUPLE OF FILMS THAT HELP START A GENRE!!!
Only $5 per person for 2 classics, plus refreshments available for purchase. Doors open at 5:30 PM, with the film presentation beginning around 6 PM.

SHORT
FRANKENSTEIN is a 1910 American short silent horror film produced by Edison Studios/Vitagraph Pictures. It was directed by J. Searle Dawley, who also wrote the one-reeler's screenplay, broadly basing his "scenario" on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. This short motion picture is generally recognized by film historians as the first screen adaptation of Shelley's work. The small cast, who are not credited in the surviving 1910 print of the film, includes Augustus Phillips as Dr. Frankenstein, Charles Ogle as Frankenstein's monster, and Mary Fuller as the doctor's fiancée. (± 12 min)

FEATURE
NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.

Nosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Count Orlok. Even with several details altered, Stoker's widow sued over the adaptation's copyright violation, and a court ruling ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed. However, several prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema and the horror genre. Critic and historian Kim Newman declared it as a film that set the template for the genre of horror film. (±92 minutes)

You may also like the following events from Fort Payne Opera House:

• This October, 4th October, 02:00 pm, Practical Magic sponsored by PWAC in Fort Payne
• This October, 4th October, 06:00 pm, Practical Magic sponsored by PWAC in Fort Payne
• This October, 10th October, 05:30 pm, 3rd Annual Downtown Fort Payne Ghost Walk in Fort Payne

Also check out other Entertainment events in Fort Payne.