Movie Time – A Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu)

Welcome once again to this humble abode called the Amazing Discount Shop, an expanding extension to our B&M video store in Aurora, Colorado called Video Video.

One of the things that is an absolute necessity to make a website successful is to have content that is of interest to your visitors. And while having a storefront is a valuable component, its not enough to stand out from the crowd.

With that in mind we’d like to hear from you, what sort of things do you think we should add that might bring you back on a regular basis? Leave your comments below if you have any ideas.

We’ll be starting with the Top 10 Deals and before long we’ll have even more ‘amazing’ goodies. More stuff, more value.

Hence, we just created this ‘Movies’ category and plan to post a few videos from time to time for you to enjoy.

To kick things off, and to gain some perspective on how the movie industry started, we thought why not take a look at a few movies from way back when?

Early on movies were silent and more than anything else, the winning category was most definitely comedy. Silent movies are somewhat akin to reading books in that your imagination plays a big part in how the movie makes you feel.

As a matter of fact, when talking movies came on to the scene quite a few people expressed disdain rather than marvel at the idea, since reality can be a let down compared to one’s imagination.

Anyway, here we have a classic horror film from 1922 to kick things off.

Lights, camera, action!

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; or simply Nosferatu) is a 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok.

The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel (for instance, “vampire” became “Nosferatu” and “Count Dracula” became “Count Orlok”). Stoker’s heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, a few prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema. As of 2015, it is Rotten Tomatoes’ second best-reviewed horror film of all time.