‘Students at Harker are dying to bring classic horror to life’
Mimesis: Nosferatu – formerly Mimesis: Evolution – is a 2018 American horror film directed by Douglas Schulze (Thorns; The Dark Below; Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead; Hellmaster) from a screenplay by Jeff Meyers (Mass Murder), based on Schulze’s storyline.
The movie stars Lance Henriksen, Allen Maldonado, Julie Kline, Jana Thompson and Gavin Grazer.
Director Douglas Schulze told Dread Central:
“F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu is arguably the most frightening cinematic monster to ever grace the screen. As a kid, I could watch Lugosi as Dracula but the German-made Nosferatu was the stuff of nightmares. So many horror films have paid homage to Count Orlok’s rat-like appearance and the atmospheric art direction we’ve come to call German Expressionism. Salem’s Lot, Sweeney Todd… So many films have been influenced by Murnau’s classic.”
Plot:
A group of students at Harker Art Academy are working on an adaptation of F.W. Murnau’s classic Nosferatu. However, things don’t quite go as planned…
Reviews:
“As in Mimesis, the vampires have makeup that looks very obvious […] Some of the stagings of Dracula (1897), especially the use of multi-media screens to represent the Demeter or the dinner between Dracula and Jonathan where the screens behind the table flash with loaded phrases and images, are quite imaginative.” Moria
