Now Spooking: ‘Nosferatu’

Thu., Oct. 26, 2000

By Dan Webster danw@spokesman.com

Just in time for Halloween, the Cathedral and the Arts series is bringing back a spooky classic of silent film.

“Nosferatu,” F.W. Murnau’s 1922 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula,” will play at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at St. John’s Cathedral, 12th and Grand.

As always, master organist Charles Bradley will accompany the film. Bradley has provided his own compositions to past silent showings such as “Faust,” “Phantom of the Opera” and “Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

Not to mention “Nosferatu,” which was last screened in the cathedral in the fall of 1996. Fully titled “Nosferatu the Vampire” (or “Nosferatu Eine Symphonie des Grauns”), Murnau’s film belongs to the same school of German expressionism as Robert Wiene’s 1919 horror masterpiece “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.”

The story, for those unfamiliar with Stoker’s novel, involves Englishman Jonathan Harker traveling to Transylvania. Harker succumbs to the blood thirst of the vampire Count Dracula, who then falls prey to his pursuers, led by Prof. Van Helsing.

Special note: Tickets go early, and seating is limited.

This sidebar appeared with the story: ON STAGE `Vampires for Halloween’

Organist Charles Bradley will accompany the silent film “Nosferatu” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at St. John’s Cathedral. Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and $3.50 for children 12 and under, available through G&B (325-SEAT, 1-800-325-SEAT or www.ticketswest.com).

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