Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)

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.

Rating: R

Release Date: Aug 28, 1992

Running Time: 135 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Moira Kelly, Kyle MacLachlan, David Bowie, Chris Isaak, Harry Dean Stanton, Dana Ashbrook, Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Augustine

director: David Lynch

Prequel to the television drama series "Twin Peaks," chronicling the seven days leading up to the brutal murder of Laura Palmer in a small logging town in the Pacific Northwest.

April 18, 2001

The impulse in the arts to build idols and smash them has found another victim in David Lynch. His early films (Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet) won a cult following that swelled in 1990 when Twin Peaks debuted and stretched the confines of TV. For a few months, Lynch was a trendy darling. Then viewers, impatient with the erratic quality of the series, turned on Peaks and on Lynch. Boos greeted this movie prequel at Cannes in May. In two years, Lynch has gone from genius to leper.

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