The unique 1922 model of Nosferatu is ready to get a brand new cinema launch the place will probably be set to Radiohead’s basic album ‘Child A’.
It comes as a part of a brand new collection known as Silents Synced, which is ready to launch within the UK this 12 months and pairs iconic silent movies with era-defining data.
Kicking off this autumn, the collection will start with F.W. Murnau’s basic horror Nosferatu. First arriving in 1922 as an adaptation of Dracula, the movie went on to turn into a cornerstone of German expressionist cinema, and Max Schreck’s portrayal of Rely Orlok turned one of the vital well-known depictions of vampirism of all time. It was lately remade by Robert Eggers and starred Invoice Skarsgård within the main function.
For the upcoming 2025 launch, the basic movie will likely be proven to the hit 2000 Radiohead album ‘Child A’ and the 2001 follow-up, ‘Amnesiac’. Screenings are set to start nationwide in October, and the reimagining of the movie coincides with the twenty fifth anniversary of ‘Child A’.
In 2026, the second instalment of the Silents Synced collection will see Buster Keaton’s visionary 1924 comedy Sherlock Jr. matched to R.E.M’s 1994 album ‘Monster’ and 1996 launch ‘New Adventures in Hello-Fi’.
The albums had been chosen for each their musical resonance and since they’ve thematic parallels to the movies themselves. Different new components to reimagine the basic motion pictures have been contributed by unbiased visible artists André Ouellette, and Myles Mangino, Pixies lighting designer.
Silents Synced was created by unbiased cinema pioneer Josh Frank, who’s the founding father of Texas-based city drive-in Blue Starlite, and has beforehand collaborated with the likes of Black Francis, David Lynch, Harold Ramis, and The Marx Bros. Property.
“The query for unbiased cinemas all the world over has turn into: what can we do to not stay solely reliant on new tentpole Hollywood releases to get product and experiences individuals can—more and more—usually wait and get at dwelling?” he mentioned in a brand new assertion.
“This has led us to one thing model new out of necessity, in the identical manner nice outsider artwork has all the time been created. It’s a complete new cinema expertise that we really feel each movie obsessives and music followers will discover one thing actually distinctive in.”
Bertis Downs, supervisor for R.E.M. added: “The blokes thought it appeared like a fantastic concept. They had been struck by the uncanny manner their music aligned with Sherlock Jr. — it’s sort of excellent. What a superb and surprising option to current nice artwork.”
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror will likely be enjoying in cinemas from October 2, whereas R.E.M X Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. will likely be out there from February 5 2026. Go to right here for tickets and extra info, and discover a new trailer under.
Information of Radiohead’s music getting used within the new cinema collection comes as rumours are swirling that the Thom Yorke-led band could also be gearing as much as hit the street once more and have supposedly “positioned holds in choose European cities for a run of residency gigs this autumn”.
Whereas this has not been confirmed but, the frontman has lately offered the theme to new Apple+ present Smoke and launched a collaborative album known as ‘Tall Tales’ with Mark Pritchard. He’s additionally at the moment concerned within the new Hamlet To The Thief musical, which relies on Radiohead’s ‘Hail To The Thief’ and took to the stage in Manchester earlier this 12 months.
As for R.E.M., final month the group introduced particulars of ‘Radio Free Europe 2025’ – a five-track profit EP that features a never-before-released remix of their 1981 debut track. Shortly earlier than then, all 4 members – Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Invoice Berry, and Peter Buck – made an surprising return to the 40 Watt Membership of their hometown of Athens, Georgia.
The latter got here as a part of Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy’s tour – which noticed the 2 of them play 1983’s ‘Murmur’ in full alongside, with a choice of their favorite R.E.M. songs.
