MORRICONE YOUTH Lives Scores "Nosferatu" 10/27 and 10/31

F.W. Murnau • 1922 • 94 Mins. • Germany • Silent/English Intertitles • Digital This is a LIVE + SOUND + CINEMA event! MORRICONE YOUTH play live music & soundscape for NOSFERATU: A Symphony of Horror Our special Halloween presentation of Nosferatu includes a live pre-show where Morricone Youth performs classic horror movie scores to a curated montage of our favorite scary flicks and a costume contest hosted by Nitehawk’s own Kris King - prizes and candy!

Watching Nosferatu is like standing in the same room as death itself. It's a brooding chamber piece of gothic ruminations, occult imagery, and of the flickering light of the world waging a losing battle against the overwhelming darkness. Tod Browning's Dracula may be the more immediately recognized of the two earliest vampire features but it is Murnau's silent masterpiece to which the entire genre—and then some—owes its existence. Count Orlock, as played by the inimitable Max Schreck (literal translation: "maximum terror"), seems to embody death as it exists for all of mankind, simultaneously bringing in his wake a plague that knows not the limits of gender, class, or beauty. That he requires blood to sustain his torturous existence and that people will fall prey to his thirst are givens here. Orlock, more rat than human, only beckons to his bloodthirsty cravings out of primal, instinctive need, like a junkie looking for the next fix, regardless of how much it prolongs their suffering. Truly, there are things worse than death. Morricone Youth is a New York City music collective formed in 1999 dedicated to performing and recording old film and television soundtrack and library production music. In addition reworking soundtrack covers, the band composes original music much in the same vein for the "imaginary film" as well as for live settings to accompany moving pictures. Thanks to Rocket Rob Patton for the flyerage. We recommend buying tickets in advance online HERE as past live score screenings have been selling out.