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.
Poet Clemens falls for much younger Auguste, the teenage daughter of a banker. When she reveals her love, Auguste is cut off by her family and the couple determine to live a poetic life. Soon, Clemens tires of her immaturity and vivaciousness, but finds he cannot live without her. She inhabits the role of tragic heroine, and attempts suicide, slowly giving in to madness.
