RCB Film Club: Nosferatu

RCB Film Club, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Thailand, proudly presents Nosferatu – Phantom of the Night. Based on Bram Stoker’s horror novel DRACULA (1897) and its famous silent film version NOSFERATU (F.W. Murnau, 1921), Herzog retells the frequently adapted vampire story by linking the imagery of the German classic and his own visual cosmos.

In Werner Herzog’s remake of F.W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU from 1921, Jonathan Harker travels from Wismar to Transylvania to negotiate the purchase of a house with Count Dracula. He spends the night in Dracula’s castle and the next morning discovers small red marks on his neck: Dracula is a vampire.

Harker flees the castle, but Dracula is already on his way to Wismar. A ship of the dead arrives there: Dracula has killed the crew and is now spreading the plague in the small town. Harker’s wife, Lucy, sacrifices herself and gives herself to Dracula. In the first rays of sunlight of the new morning, the vampire dissolves. But Jonathan Harker has become a new kind of vampire and rides off in the daylight to spread the plague across the world.

Tickets priced at 100 THB are available at https://www.ticketmelon.com/rivercitybangkok/nosferatu