Get your teeth into showing of classic film

LIVE organ music and a live Scottish narrator are set to put a new twist on a classic horror film.

The German expressionist classic Nosferatu is director F.W. Murnau's horror take on Bram Stoker's Dracula, set in Germany and Transylvania.

In a special screening at the Edinburgh Filmhouse next month, the silent film will be accompanied by live music from composer David Allison, and a narration by actress Anne Marie Watson, as well as samples and sound effects.

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Watson plays Emily Gerard, a travel writer from Airdrie who in 1888 was the first person to bring the word "nosferatu" or "undead" into western European awareness, when she wrote about Transylvanian superstitions. in her essay The Land Beyond The Forest.

The one-off performance is being held at the Filmhouse on Sunday, 21 February.

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