Panic Room (2002)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group

Rating: R

Release Date: Mar 29, 2002

Running Time: 112 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto, Kristen Stewart, Ann Magnuson, Ian Buchanan, Patrick Bauchau, Paul Schulze, Andrew Kevin Walker

director: David Fincher

After purchasing a brownstone in New York, a thirty-something divorced woman and her daughter are forced to take advantage of the hidden room- the "panic room" -when intruders break into their home. However, they soon find that what the intruders want is locked in the panic room with them.

When a woman and her daughter move into a New York brownstone equipped with a ''panic room'' built to keep bad guys out, they are unaware of how soon they would need it--on their very first night in their new home.

Story

Sometime it's the simple, straightforward stories that make the best psychological thrillers--and Panic Room doesn't get any simpler than this: Recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) are looking for a new place to live and find a…

March 22, 2002

Jodie Foster swings a mean sledgehammer. And it's a kick to have her back onscreen as a female warrior who knows how to chase demons ("Hello, Clarice"). Foster was called in at the last minute to replace an injured Nicole Kidman in the role of a mother defending her daughter against male predators while wearing tank-top sleepwear and with only one night and her own ingenuity to bring the creeps down. That's it for plot spoilers. The first rule of Panic Room is you don't talk about Panic Room.…