Cinema Retro has received the following press release:
Eureka! Entertainment
are delighted to announce the Halloween 2013 theatrical and home video releases
of an eagerly awaited new restoration of F. W. Murnau's legendary silent cinema
horror classic Nosferatu: A
Symphony of Horror (1922), expertly restored in Germany by the
world-renowned Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung (FWMS).
This
revival of a horror classic, one of the most famous of all silent films,
follows Eureka! Entertainment's hugely successful restoration showcases of
Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)
in 2010 and Carl Theodor Dreyer's The
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) in 2012.
Nosferatu's
UK theatrical run will be co-ordinated by Eureka! Entertainment and will open
in selected cinemas nationwide on Friday October 25, 2013, just in time for
Halloween, and will also feature as part of the BFI’s GOTHIC: The Dark Heart of Film which runs from 21st October
2013 – 31st January 2014. This year the BFI will take Britain back to darker
times and thrill the nation by uncovering, as never before, the dark heart of film.
With over 150 titles and around 1000 screenings GOTHIC features spectacularly
terrifying special events to thrill every corner of the UK. GOTHIC will explore film’s most popular theme,
spawning some of the medium’s most iconic, powerful and terrifying scenes and
characters whose lasting popularity just refuses to die www.bfi.org.uk/gothic
.
Blu-ray,
Blu-ray SteelBook and DVD releases of Nosferatu will follow with a raft of
special features to be announced nearer the release date, as part of Eureka!
Entertainment's award-winning The
Masters of Cinema Series www.mastersofcinema.org .
Ron
Benson, head of Eureka! Entertainment, comments: “Eureka! Entertainment have
had the real pleasure of releasing some of the absolute classics of silent
cinema, and there are arguably no more iconic than F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, the grandfather of all
vampire films, which continues to thrill, chill, and horrify audiences nearly 100
years after it was made.â€
Craig
Keller, producer of The Masters of Cinema Series, adds: “This new restoration
of Nosferatu has
been meticulously prepared and looks truly outstanding. It will allow a new
generation to experience afresh one of the greatest of all cinematographic
horrors, and a monument of German expressionism, looking better than ever. The
film is uncanny, legitimately terrifying – to see it on the big screen in the
midst of the Halloween season will make for an unforgettable experience.â€
Critical
praise for Nosferatu:
"The first and probably the greatest of all vampire films."
–Jonathan Rosenbaum
"[F. W. Murnau is] the greatest film director the Germans have ever
known." – Lotte Eisner
Online:
Eureka
Entertainment website www.eurekavideo.co.uk
Masters of
Cinema Website www.mastersofcinema.org
Twitter:
@eurekavideo / @mastersofcinema
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