All screenings on 35mm film unless otherwise stated.

There will be Digital Open Captioned screenings at 13.00 on Monday 6th, and 20.30 on Thursday 9th. 

1838; Estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) is tasked with securing a property in the town of Wisberg for the mysterious Count Orlok, a commission that takes him to his client’s castle in the Carpathian Mountains where nothing is quite what it seems, least of all his sinister host who betrays a macabre fixation for Hutter’s new wife, Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp). With the Count bound for Wisberg, and the bodies piling up, Thomas rushes home to find Ellen succumbing to the Count’s malign influence. Robert Eggers’s remake of Murnau’s 1922 classic, itself an unauthorised take on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is a visually resplendent gothic feast with natural lighting and in-camera effects creating an overwhelming atmosphere of dread. As the blood-sucking Orlok, Bill Skarsgård is suitably repulsive, a growling, wraithlike presence, the very embodiment of death itself.

Notes by David O’Mahony