Nosferatu (dir:  F. W. Murnau, 1921, cert PG) with live musical accompaniment
The master German Expressionist director Murnau’s version of the Dracula story is a darkly atmospheric tale with an iconic and unsettling performance from Max Schreck as the titular vampire. Unlike Bram Stoker’s original novel Nosferatu’s victims stay dead, this deviation didn’t stop the author’s estate suing and obtaining an order that all copies of the film be destroyed. Luckily for us one of the greatest horror films ever made survived and even luckier for Birmingham cinephiles it can be viewed tonight with live musical accompaniment from Nigel Ogden on the Town Hall’s historic organ. As an added bonus J. Searle Dawley’s 1910 version of Frankenstein is also being screened.

Tue 31 Oct 7.30pm at Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham B3 3DQ £18 www.thsh.co.uk

Check out our other screen picks for this week here.