Classic Monsters
Shrecklichkeit: classic monsters and their spawn
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Golem, wie er in die Welt cam (The Golem) 1920 All ages Star-gazing Rabbi Loew sees trouble ahead for the Jews of Prague and creates a giant clay golem (played by director Paul Wegener) to protect his people. This was Paul Wegener’s third film version of the famous Jewish legend and quickly provided the template for Universum-Film’s technical razzle-dazzle and patented Gothic-Expressionist look. Thu 2 Oct 12 noon / Cinema A |
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror 1922 PG The classic (and unauthorized) adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, starring Max Schreck as the freakish and utterly convincing title character. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau sets his story in the time of the Black Death, and balancing special effects with clinical macro-photography, blends nature and science with the supernatural. Nosferau lords over disease-bearing rats, predatory spiders, and a Venus flytrap in search for prey. Sun 5 Oct 3.00pm / Cinema A |
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Orlacs Hände (The Hands Of Orlac) 1925 All ages Conrad Veidt again plays a famous pianist who has the hands of a murderer grafted on to his arms after he is mutilated in a train wreck. Based on a French novel by Maurice Renard, Robert Wiene’s version in turn provided the source for many remakes, including the classic Mad Love 1935 by Karl Freund. Thu 2 Oct 3.00pm / Cinema A |
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Mad Love 1935 All ages In this celebrated American remake of The Hands of Orlac, Peter Lorre stars as the twisted surgeon who, out of mad love for a stage actress, grafts new hands onto her pianist-husband. Thu 6 Nov 2.00pm / Cinema A |
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Bride of Frankenstein 1935 PG The wittiest and most lyrical of the monster films from Universal Studios. A strain of self-parody threads its way through the operatic Art Deco science and lavish Germanic studio style. Dr. Frankenstein is blackmailed into reviving his monster and fashioning a mate for it. Ernest Thesiger threatens to steal the show as the manic Dr Praetorius, but it is Elsa Lanchester’s hair that is now the cultural icon. Wed 8 Oct 6.00pm / Cinema B |
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Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre) 1979 PG In Werner Herzog’s ethereal remake, Dracula (Klaus Kinski) is a sad, twisted demon craving affection as much as he does death. Isabelle Adjani plays the object of his desire; Bruno Ganz her unfortunate husband, Jonathan Harker. Visually stunning, this is less a remake than a hommage to Friedrick Wilhelm Murnau’s original Nosferatu. Sun 5 Oct 1.00pm / Cinema A |
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Shadow of the Vampire 2000 M A wicked take on the making of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s Nosferatu. According to Merhige’s film, Murnau (John Malkovich) may have been obsessed with the vampire story, but Max Schreck, the mysterious actor who played Count Orloc, was the real deal – an actual vampire. Bad news for Catherine McCormack, the love interest, who finds that Schreck is interested only in her neck. Sat 4 Oct 3.00pm / Cinema A |
