The Old Days One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was going to the movies. It was a safe trip into a darkened realm of imagination, where larger-than-life stories shadow-played before my eyes and ears. I even remember taping newspaper ads for my favorite movies to my bedroom wall. As the late film critic…
Tag: Nosferatu
Retro-Musings for Halloween: “Nosferatu” (1922) rises at the historic Mission Inn hotel with a live music score…
******103-YEAR OLD BLOODSUCKING SPOILERS!****** I’m hoping readers aren’t too tired of my Halloween content (my favorite holiday), because this one should be the last one for this season…I think (?). This past weekend, I went to see my first-ever public screening of a silent movie with a live organist supplying the soundtrack! I own a…
Musings on “Nosferatu” (1922/1979/2024); three versions of a “Dracula” variant…
******BLOOD-SUCKING SPOILERS!****** In 1974, at the tender age of around seven or eight, I was a real monster nerd. I remember having the Aurora model kits of the classic Universal Horror monsters, such as Frankenstein’s Monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon (my favorite monster design) and the Wolf-Man (whom I spent much time in…