Waiting for Guffman (1997)

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: Jan 31, 1997

Running Time: 93 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Deborah Theaker, Michael Hitchcock, Scott Williamson, Larry Miller, Donald Lake, Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, David Cross

director: Christopher Guest

A mockumentary set in the fictional town of Blaine, Missouri in which creative citizens prepare a multi-media pageant celebrating the 150th anniversary of their city.

December 8, 2000

Waiting for Guffman

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If a mockumentary about the citizens of Blaine, Mo., staging a musical to celebrate the town's 150th anniversary doesn't grab you, hold on. Actor-director-writer-composer Christopher Guest (guitarist Nigel Tufnel in This Is Spinal Tap) loads an arsenal of laughs into a deceptively small package.

Wearing bangs and speaking in a lisp that barely skirts gay caricature, Guest plays Corky St. Clair, back in Blaine after a failed go at Broadway. He wins the job of…