How to Watch…If You Dare!
Veteran Mighty Wurlitzer theater organist Trent Sims performs for the pre-recorded virtual performance of the spine-tingling film, Nosferatu.
The film is available for streaming through Nov. 7 at https://youtu.be/ifaDVg34o48.
You could spend your Halloween endlessly scrolling through Netflix, never deciding on a scary movie (or Scary Movie) to watch. But the Friends of Music Hall have ordered up a guaranteed spine-tingler with a Cincinnati spin with a special showing of Nosferatu with music from acclaimed organist Trent Sims on the Mighty Wurlitzer.
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror was directed by F.W. Murnau, with Max Schreck starring as Count Orlok, a vampire with an interest in both a new residence and the wife of his real estate agent. This legendary 1922 silent German Expressionist film tells the story of a creepy count who is hunting for a new home and takes an unwelcome fancy to his real estate agent’s wife. The film, inspired by Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula, was ranked 21st in the “The 100 Best Films of World Cinema.”
Organist Sims, a native of Dayton, Ohio, developed a love of music at an early age. He has played classical and theater organ concerts across the United States, England, and Germany. Sims has been particularly associated with Music Hall’s Mighty Wurlitzer, having made the inaugural recording on that instrument in 2010.
The film is part of the Friends’ Silent Movies Made Musical with the Mighty Wurlitzer series. In the spring, the Friends of Music Hall presented Girl Shy (1924), starring Harold Lloyd as a shy, stuttering bachelor who works in a tailor shop – yet he's writing a guide book for bashful young men! He meets and falls in love with a rich young woman who is engaged and about to wed an already-married man! He has to become her hero and prevent the wedding – but how? Master organist Clark Wilson took viewers back to a time when the bells and whistles of the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre organ provided the soundtrack to film entertainment.
Find learn more about the Friends of Music Hall and additional programming, visit friendsofmusichall.org.