Scary Bodega Productions presents the 1922 silent film classic with a new score partially comprised of audio plundered from more than a dozen succeeding vampire films. Produced by Chris Fuller.

Like a grave-robbing ghoul, composer/sound-designer Chris Fuller meticulously dug through more than a dozen classic vampire films and harvested countless bites of sound and music for infusion into F.W. Murnau’s expressionist classic of the silent era, Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horror. After thoroughly analyzing, surgically dissecting, and calculatedly transforming these components in his laboratory, he inter-stitched them with strains and passages of original music into a new organic system giving fresh life to this favorite vampire classic.

This new score by Fuller is to the vampire film genre what Dangermouse was to the Beatles and hip hop. Its aruguably litigious nature is extremely fitting for a film that presented of one of the first copyright infringement cases of the technological era. Nosferatu was a barely veiled and wholly unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. After it’s world-wide distribution in the 1920’s Bram Stoker’s widow sued the film makers on behalf of the author’s estate and consequently all prints were ordered to be destroyed. Luckily several copies survived and the film stands as not only testament to the culture of post-war Europe but as the father of modern horror cinema. Fuller’s score honors that tradition by twisting and reshaping elements mined from Nosferatu’s sound successors into a new means of experiencing the film that takes the audience beyond the standard pipe-organ accompaniment.

In collaboration with Tense Forms, Scary Bodega presented a night of film, music, art, and atmospehere delightfully suited to that greatest of all Irish holidays...Halloween. It all happened on Saturday October 22 of 2004 as well as October 22 of 2005 at the Open End Gallery, Chicago.

WBEZ Chicago Public Radio ran this piece about the project on their October 16th broadcast of "Hello Beautiful". You can listen to the program here.

J. Niimi wrote this for the Chicago Reader:

A few years back Chicago musician and sound artist Chris Fuller, who used to play guitar and sing in the postpunk bands dis- and Sixto, composed a "plunderphonic" sound track to F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent Nosferatu, assembling his score entirely from more than a dozen other vampire movies. Aside from sounding like a fun project, it's also a postmodern commentary on he circumstances surrounding the film. Its creators were sued by Bram Stoker's estate for ripping off Dracula, and all existing prints were ordered destroyed by a German court.