The iconic 1922 silent film by F.W Murnau gets a radical soundtrack makeover, featuring experimental loud guitar, exotic balinese instruments, mesmerizing piano riffs, a haunting choir with a couple of folk songs. Revisit the silver screen and scream! A hit at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe's Desert Fringe in Pt Augusta. The iconic 1922 silent film by F.W Murnau gets a radical soundtrack makeover, featuring experimental loud guitar, exotic balinese instruments, mesmerizing piano riffs, a haunting choir with a couple of folk songs. Revisit the silver screen and scream!. Remember a time when Vampires weren't just hunky teenage heart throbs! A hit at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe_x0019_ s Desert Fringe in Pt Augusta. The film was in essence an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula", with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel. The studio however declared bankruptcy after Bram Stoker's estate, acting for his widow, Florence Stoker, sued for copyright infringement and won. The court ordered all existing prints of "Nosferatu" destroyed, but copies of the film had already been distributed around the world. These prints were then copied over the years, helping "Nosferatu" gain its cult reputation as one of the greatest movie adaptations of the vampire legend. Now in the public domain and on Google Videos and You Tube, the movie won_x0019_ t be screened using a new reprint or re-master but instead the screening will highlight the free and unlicensed nature of the original adaptation and present notions of popular culture through a DIY ethic and sound mash up.
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