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‘Nosferatu’ back at the State

Springfield’s own Equinox will again perform an original score live

He’s baaaack: Max Schreck is Graf Orlok in 1922’s “Nosferatu,” which will get its seasonal screening at the State Theater.

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By Andrew McGinn, Staff Writer 4:54 PM Thursday, October 22, 2009

SPRINGFIELD — There’s one local tradition that not only refuses to die, it feeds on the blood of the living as it stalks the land, forever undead.

On second thought, make that two local traditions — forgot about Phil Dirt and the Dozers.

But this weekend, F.W. Murnau’s 1922 vampire classic, “Nosferatu,” returns to the State Theater, 19 S. Fountain Ave., for two screenings with an original score performed live by Springfield’s own Equinox (Larry Coressel, Wayne Justice, Andrew Gibson and Doug Baumle).

Show times are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 23 and 24. Admission is $5 at the door.

The Equinox guys have done other silent films (“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” and “Metropolis”) and have plans to do others (Murnau’s “Faust”), but “Nosferatu” has emerged as their Halloween staple.

That’s fairly understandable.

“Nosferatu” was one of the earliest movie adaptations of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” and it’s no less creepy today than it was 87 years ago.

That’s around the time Phil Dirt first played here.

And ask yourself this — has anyone ever seen Phil Dirt before the sun goes down?

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