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Real Life Horror: F.W. Murnau’s Head Stolen From Grave
Extremely bizarre news is coming out of Germany as Variety is stating that the grave of Nosferatu director F.W. Murnau has been desecrated and his head reportedly stolen. The director, who died in 1931 in a car accident, was buried in a family plot in a cemetery in Stahnsdorf, Germany, near Berlin.
The site writes, “…grave robbers opened a metal coffin to access the filmmaker’s embalmed body. The nearby graves of his two brothers were not disturbed. Spiegel Online said some wax residue had been found near the grave, pointing to a possible occult connection.”
Murnau’s Nosferatu, which was released in 1922, was an unlicensed film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s famous novel “Dracula“, which has since become one of the most famous vampire stories.
No further details have been released.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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