Nosferatu The Vampyre
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
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!
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!