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Nosferatu
Film
No Place Like Home

Nosferatu (1922)

silent film with live organ accompaniment by Peter Krasinski
October 23, 2025

This event occurred as part of the 25/26 Hop Film Event season. This is an archived view.

Organist Peter Krasinski provides live accompaniment for F.W. Murnau's silent vampire masterwork.

NOSFERATU 100th Anniversary Trailer

 

With both Robert Eggers' remake and Ryan Coogler's reinvention of the genre with Sinners, this seems an apt time to revisit the OG vampire film. In F.W. Murnau's haunting masterpiece, a simple real-estate transaction leads an intrepid businessman deep into the superstitious heart of Transylvania. There he encounters the otherworldly Count Orlok (Max Schreck) who soon after embarks upon a cross-continental voyage to take up residence in a distant new land, along with his shipful of plague rats.

The use of real locations instead of stylized studio sets, and special effects such as negative exposure and fast-speed motion make this first (and unauthorized) adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula one of the eeriest and most magical. Its treatment of themes from the novel—like xenophobia, antisemitism, homophobia and a suspicion toward scientific progress—offers insight into the time in which it was made, and how much things have changed in the last 100 years (or not).

D: F.W. Murnau, US, 1922, 1h21m, Silent with Live Accompaniment

With live accompaniment by organist Peter Krasinski. Programmed in collaboration with the Department of Film & Media Studies, the Tucker Center and the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College

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