We welcome Los Angeles composer and bassist Tom Peters for a live performance of his score for Murnau’s classic adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. The first gothic horror film, and a key work of German expressionism, the film was influenced by Freud’s new ideas of sexual repression. Max Schreck is the gangly, pointy-fingered master of the Carpathian castle who travels by coffin across the sea in search of his love, bringing plague and pestilence with him. Marked by its eerie cinematography and special effects, a constant feeling of anticipation oozes from the ominous symbols, heightened here by Peters’ live electronic score, which weaves through the film’s dark alleys to create an experience like no other. (84 mins.)
$12 general; $8 members