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Wise Blood - Nosferatu"

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ArtistWise Blood

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Synopsis

A young man drifts through a surreal, feverish landscape where ordinary spaces become increasingly uncanny. He appears to dance, wander, and pose in isolation before encountering strange visual transformations, including a sinister masked figure emerging through the mist. The imagery shifts between playful absurdity and genuine menace, with plastic, candy, smoke, and theatrical makeup creating a dream logic rather than a conventional horror narrative. Although the title evokes vampire cinema, the video uses disorientation and bodily unease instead of a straightforward monster story.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video was released in 2011 alongside Wise Blood's *These Wings* EP, issued by Dovecote Records.
  • Tanner Cohen appears as the video's central performer. The production credits also list Ben Goodman for cinematography, Alex Kaplan for art direction, and Joel Jares for lighting.
  • Contemporary coverage described the clip as hypnotic, druggy, and dreamlike, emphasizing its unsettling tone rather than treating it as a literal vampire narrative.
  • The video's horror references connect with the Gothic associations of both the "Nosferatu" title and the Wise Blood name. The latter also recalls Flannery O'Connor's 1952 novel *Wise Blood*.
  • The production combines deliberately strange practical imagery with theatrical presentation. A creepy old-man mask, mist, candy, and the image of a person enclosed in plastic were among the details singled out by reviewers.
  • "Nosferatu" is a short track, running approximately two minutes and 48 seconds on the reissue of *These Wings*.
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