By Wendy R. Williams

Halloween is coming around the bend and you can bet your pumpkins that the ghouls at New York Cool will haunt the city this year.

On Saturday September 4th I attended a preview of the ghoulish festivities to come when The New York City Horror Film Festival presented an afternoon of old silent horror films at the Knitting Factory.

 

The screening was part of the Drop Dead 2 Festival, fondly known as DD2 to those of us who are still alive.

On Labor Day weekend, DD2 filled the Knitting Factory’s three floors for a three day celebration of the music, fashion, and culture of the "dead."

Basim from Malice in Leatherland with two Vampirettes

I saw the 1929 cult classic Nosferatu. "Nosferatu" is a not-to-be-missed classic horror film. And after you have been properly Noferaturized, you should follow-up by renting E. Elias Merhige's "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000). "Shadow" is a super scary film about the making of "Nosferatu" which stars John Malkovich and William Dafoe.

http://dropdeadfestival.com