Dracula is still a ghastly figure, but with a greater sense of pathos; weary, unloved, and doomed to immortality.

In the town of Wisbourg, estate agent Mr. Knock is pleased to receive a commission from Count Orlok to find a house for him. He dispatches his young assistant, Hutter, to Orlok's castle in the far off Carpathians. He tells Hutter to get him to buy the vacant house just opposite Hutter's own. Hutter arrives at his destination safely and the Count is all too eager to buy the proposed property especially after he sees a photo of Hutter's pretty young wife Ellen. Hutter soon realizes the evil he's dealing with and is locked away while Orlock makes his way by ship to Wisbourg. As Orloc travels to Wisbourg, plague descends in his wake and the people of Wisbourg begin to sense the coming of evil. Hutter eventually escapes Orloc's castle determined to return home as quickly as possible but exhausted and ill, finds himself in hospital. Hutter nonetheless arrives home the same day as Orlok and the townsfolk begin to panic over the increasing number of deaths.

NOSFERATU is a 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, one print of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema.

LIVE MUSIC - Viola Dana

Viola Dana was the name of a starlet of the silent silver screen and is also the name of an ensemble of musicians based in Perth, Western Australia, who create and perform soundtracks for film. Each bringing their own formidable experience and inimitable musicianship to the ensemble, the members of Viola Dana are passionate about creating meaningful, high artistic quality and memorable experiences for their audiences through the use of original music being performed live to film screenings. The result is a dynamic and unique hybrid arts experience, illuminating masterworks of the silent film era for a contemporary audience. Viola Dana's sound can best be described as a mixture of folk, jazz and contemporary classical music rendered in warm, rich sonic hues of cello, guitar, banjo (on occasion), drums, tuned percussion and, of course, viola, the violin's deeper-voiced older sister. The band loses count of the number of times audience members have remarked that their performance to a screening of a silent film was the most special film experience they'd had to date...

Rating- M
Runtime - 91 minutes
Genre - Horror
Director - Murnau

Cast -
Max Schreck as Count Orlok
Gustav von Wangenheim as Thomas Hutter
Greta Schr der as Ellen Hutter
Alexander Granach as Knock
Ruth Landshoff as Annie

Complimentary Cellar Door Wine Tasting

6.00pm - 7.30pm

(Must have a Movie Ticket to enter)