Director F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, made in 1921 after the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic, has become the ultimate cult classic among horror film buffs around the world. For years, there was much speculation about the production background, the filmmakers and the star--German actor Max Schreck. This greatly expanded new edition, based upon rare sources and years of dedicated research, tells the complete story of how a group of occultists established a leading film company that would produce a momentous series of horror movies. Along the way, other classic German fantasy…mehr
Director F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, made in 1921 after the devastating Spanish Flu pandemic, has become the ultimate cult classic among horror film buffs around the world. For years, there was much speculation about the production background, the filmmakers and the star--German actor Max Schreck. This greatly expanded new edition, based upon rare sources and years of dedicated research, tells the complete story of how a group of occultists established a leading film company that would produce a momentous series of horror movies. Along the way, other classic German fantasy silents, such as The Golem, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis, are discussed. Featured in this edition are photographs, documents and interviews, including one with Dacre Stoker, the great-grandnephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker.
Rolf Giesen, a former visiting professor of animation at the Communication University of China and president of an animation museum in Changchun, China, has compiled a special effects collection for Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin and has co-written several animation features. He is an expert on early fantasy and science fiction films.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Plane Crash Near Nuremberg It Came from Max Reinhardt Paul Wegener and Hanns Heinz Ewers: The Godfathers of German Film Fantasy "Why Aren't You Dead?" The Zombies of Dr. Caligari Dr. Jekyll and the Cosmic Vampire of War Creepy Creatures Casting a Skeletal Monster Shooting Nosferatu in Kafka's Castle Vampire Over Berlin Backroom Occultism: Frater Pacitius, Aleister Crowley's Berlin Disciple Great Plans and Nightly Hallucinations: The End of the Ill-Fated Prana Film Company Satanic Alchemy vs. Dystopian Megalomania The Twelfth Hour of the Vampyre The Curse of Antisemitism How the Golem Came into the World and Fought the Nazis The Revival of Nosferatu Christopher Lee vs. Klaus Kinski Shadow of the Vampire: The Legacy Interviews Appendix I: Timeline Appendix II: Nosferatu Crew and Cast Biographies The Nosferatu Filmography Filmography II: The Silent Era of German Expressionist, Fantasy and Alchemical Films Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Plane Crash Near Nuremberg It Came from Max Reinhardt Paul Wegener and Hanns Heinz Ewers: The Godfathers of German Film Fantasy "Why Aren't You Dead?" The Zombies of Dr. Caligari Dr. Jekyll and the Cosmic Vampire of War Creepy Creatures Casting a Skeletal Monster Shooting Nosferatu in Kafka's Castle Vampire Over Berlin Backroom Occultism: Frater Pacitius, Aleister Crowley's Berlin Disciple Great Plans and Nightly Hallucinations: The End of the Ill-Fated Prana Film Company Satanic Alchemy vs. Dystopian Megalomania The Twelfth Hour of the Vampyre The Curse of Antisemitism How the Golem Came into the World and Fought the Nazis The Revival of Nosferatu Christopher Lee vs. Klaus Kinski Shadow of the Vampire: The Legacy Interviews Appendix I: Timeline Appendix II: Nosferatu Crew and Cast Biographies The Nosferatu Filmography Filmography II: The Silent Era of German Expressionist, Fantasy and Alchemical Films Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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