Sources :
- Nosferatu, A Symphony Of Horror (English "Dracula" translation from archive.org)
- extracted video game soundtrack from Super Castlevania IV (U) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Film Synopsis (excerpted from Wikipedia) :
Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens ("Nosferatu, A Symphony Of Horror" in German) is a German Expressionist film shot in 1922 by F.W. Murnau. Murnau had wanted to film a version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but his studio was unable to obtain the rights to the story. Murnau decided to film his own version and made only slight changes to the story. The resultant movie has many similarities to Stoker's original tale. "Dracula" became "Nosferatu" and the names of the characters changed, with Count Dracula changed to Graf Orlok. The role of the vampire was played by Max Schreck. Other major actors in the film were Gustav von Wangenheim (as Thomas Hutter/Jonathan Harker), Greta Schröder (as Ellen Hutter/Mina Harker), and Alexander Granach (as Knock/R.M. Renfield).
Graf Orlok's move to Bremen brings the plague traceable to his dealings with the realtor Thomas Hutter. While hope in the city sinks, Hutter's wife Ellen, with whom Graf is obsessed, turns out to be the only one with the power to end the evil.
This was the first film of the production company Prana-Film GmbH; it was also the last as they declared bankruptcy after Bram Stoker's estate - acting for his widow, Florence Stoker - sued for copyright infringement (plagiarism) and won. The court ordered all existing prints of Nosferatu destroyed, but a number of copies of the film had already been distributed around the world. These prints were then copied over the years, resulting in Nosferatu gaining a reputation as one of the greatest movie adaptations of the vampire legend.
Murnau's Nosferatu is in the public domain, and copies of the movie are widely available on video - usually as poorly transferred, faded, scratched video copies that are often scorned by enthusiasts. However, pristine restored editions of the film have also been made available, and are also readily accessible to the public.
Project Synopsis :
Nosferatu, A Symphony Of Horror (The Super Castlevania Score) is an attempt to marry the musical score from the classic SNES video game Super Castlevania IV to the 1922 classic German silent film, Nosferatu. While the music from a video game made in 1991 might not seem like the most likely of sources for an alternate instrumental score for Nosferatu, the music actually fits the feel of the film amazingly well. Something about the jangly, synthesized nature of the music of Masanori Oodachi and Sotaro Tojima (Souji Taro) blends with the surreal and manic images within Murnau's film.
Working as the musical arranger, I have placed the 30+ original songs and musical cues from Super Castlevania IV into Nosferatu. The music suits the film very well and certainly highlights several key scenes and transitions within the film.
Software Used :
- ZSNES (to extract SPC video game sound files from Super Castlevania IV)
- WinAmp (to convert SPC > WAV)
- dBpowerAMP (to convert WAV > mp3, for a bonus DVD-ROM soundtrack)
- Womble MPEG Video Wizard DVD (video/audio editing and encoding)
- DVD-Lab Pro (DVD building)
Download :
Part 1 *
Part 2 *
Part 3 *
Part 4 *
* Note - All four volumes of this zip file must be downloaded before the files will be properly viewable.