I swear that headline isn’t some weird joke. This is a legitimately fucked-up news story. F.W. Murnau is the highly inspirational German director of Sunrise, Faust, and most importantly, Nosferatu, which arguably taught every subsequent filmmaker how to properly make a horror film. And now his crypt – of course Murnau was buried in a crypt – has been desecrated, and his skull taken.
From NBC News:
Potsdam police confirmed that they were investigating the theft of “skeletal parts” from a burial chamber in the Stahnsdorf cemetery southwest of Berlin where Murnau has been buried for 83 years along with his brothers. Wax drippings were found at the scene, suggesting that the theft may have occurred during one of the occasional ritual ceremonies occult followers have performed there over the years.
That’s a shitty thing to do. Like, that wouldn’t even make for a good Murnau film, which – ah, fuck, it kind of would. Let’s just hope that these dumbass Satanists get caught and the (now definitely haunted) skull is returned to the crypt of the master of horror.
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