Nosferatu

The Trouble with Charlie: Hell breaks loose when the devil comes to town Bad omen: A steam train chimney’s black smoke cloud signals his arrival One Good Mother: Hitch’s kindest-ever …

Revisiting contemporary and modern critical appreciation Alfred Hitchcock brings murder to unsuspecting community Devil in our midst: It takes Girl Power to end existential threat One of the Master of …

Censorship and partners in war crime Alfred Newman’s thrilling score supplemented by several diegetic pieces of music For decades, many countries only released post-war, politically censored versions Provoking: It was …

January 2024: Die zwölfte Stunde finally available for online viewing! First ever vampire film was reshot, recut and reissued with sound Methodology also practised by world’s most famous quack doctor The …

In 1956, the Master famously remade his own 1934 thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much But 26 years before that, he directed two very different versions of this murder mystery …

First talkies and MIA Lays claim to be Britain’s first talkie but the truth is seldom so simple Worldwide cinema’s silent–sound transition didn’t happen overnight Technology progressed with many transatlantic …

Count Orlok speaks! After a century of silent scares, the brooding vampire finally finds his voice Among Nosferatu’s many homages and reinterpretations are several transforming it into a talkie Most …

Restorations and home video releases A Story of the Home Video Fog: for every quality release, many awful ones lurk to catch the unwary The Lodger languished in multitudes of …

1933–1938 Films The international solution to language-restricted talkies passes its peak years However, many classics were yet to be made before the advent of WWII ended the practise Contents Introduction …

The Many Faces of Orlok: All Restored Releases Count Orlok’s saga has metamorphosed through a bewildering variety of versions The restored releases have a total of seven completely different transfers and scores …