This ‘cinematic mashup’ pairing the 1922 vampire film Nosferatu with Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac albums could have been great. Unfortunately, the execution is so slapdash and careless that it feels like a missed opportunity. Rather than put any thought into which tracks might work with which scenes, the editor just runs the two albums over the film.

It’s frustrating, because there are moments where it almost works. Idioteque playing over a manhunt is a good sequence and there are moments here and there where picture and sound match up, but that is more by luck than judgement. The whole thing just felt so sloppy, with scene changes (demarcated by title cards) happening 10-15 seconds after different tracks come in. This could have been fixed so easily that it feels like a wilful act of apathy not to do it. The other infuriating decision by the editors is to add pulsing patches of colour to the black and white film, timed to the music. This adds nothing to the film, serves as a distraction, and meant I was getting a headache about two thirds of the way through the runtime.

I’ll concede that the second half of the film works a little better with Amnesiac, but that’s probably down to that record being a bit more open and ambient than Kid A. This was a crushing disappointment, seemingly tossed off with little care for either element. The company behind it is releasing more of these combinations, including mixing Buster Keaton’s The General with the music of REM, which honestly sounds pretty awful.

I saw this at the Depot in Lewes, but I believe it’s been released nationwide. I’d skip it, to be honest.