After Hours Film Society Presents Nosferatu with Live Pipe Organ Accompaniment

Name: After Hours Film Society Presents Nosferatu with Live Pipe Organ Accompaniment
Start: 2024-11-11T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Classic Cinemas - Tivoli

Schedule

Mon Nov 11 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Classic Cinemas - Tivoli | Downers Grove, IL

More than 100 years ago, Berlin's movers and shakers attended the premiere of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, and saw the nightmarish Count Orlok springing bolt upright from his coffin. Those unsuspecting viewers could well have witnessed the first great jump scare in the history of horror movies. They had certainly witnessed its first great monster. An unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula – hence the Count's name-change from Dracula to Orlok – this silent masterpiece pioneered techniques and established horror tropes that have been used ever since. But the creation of the iconic Orlok, played by Max Schreck, is its supreme achievement. He is, says Cristina Massaccesi, in her guide to Nosferatu for the Devil's Advocates horror history series, "the Ur-Vampire, the father of all undead creatures lurking in the darkest recesses of a cinema screen".
The screening features live pipe organ accompaniment featuring David Rhodes on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ. Come and experience the silent film classic in the way it is meant to be seen!
Admission: $7 After Hours Film Society Members | $11 Non-Members