Something... creepy...?

I'm the Technical Director for this here production of Nosferatu. As such I have a plethora of jobs to do, i.e. I'm overseeing everything video oriented... which in retrospect is everything that ends up on camera... which is most the stuff we're doing...

Anyway, one of these jobs is setting it up so we can use footage from the movie that will be spliced into the projection in order to bridge the gaps between live shots... This will be done mainly in places where we can't really fake it on stage... e.g. The Carpathian mountains, a pack of wild horses being spooked by a werewolf, a raft full of coffins floating down a river- you get the point-

So- I'm sitting here at my computer, pouring over the film frame by frame- finding all the stuff we can't do in real life and putting it onto a timeline in my video editing software- as I do all this I am naming the clips in the sequential order they'll be showing up in the show; the first clip is named "1", the second clip is named "2"... am I moving to fast for you?

Well, right at the end of Act I (there are V acts) is the scene where we are introduced to the one and only Count Orlok (i.e. Nosferatu's creepy alter ego) and wouldn't you know it- when I typed in the name of the shot leading right into that classic scene... I noticed it was: "13".

I'm not a superstitious man... I actually happen to like the number 13 quite a bit- so when it comes to doing a fantastic halloween show, starring one of the most famous (and perhaps most accurate) vampires of all time... I couldn't think of a better omen!