RCB Film Club: Nosferatu – Phantom of the Night

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. In addition, you are in for a treat with Prawit TaengAksorn, a film critic and a professor of Film Critique from various esteemed universities, who will guide you through the intriguing narrative of Dracula, engaging in a conversation under the topic “Horror Film History: German Art Influence on Horror Films, Hollywood, and the World”. This discourse will involve interpreting films, particularly the reinterpretation of the classic 1922 story of Count Dracula, “Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night”, which we are presenting for all of you to behold. It’s truly an unmissable symposium for all cinephiles!