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Vampyr (1931)

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Consensus: Full of disorienting visual effects, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr is as theoretically unsettling as it is conceptually disturbing.

Runtime: 81 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: A young man stops at an inn, and discovers the village is rife with strange goings-on... murders, sudden illnesses, and weird skulking creatures. Then a doctor asks him to help a desperately sick... A young man stops at an inn, and discovers the village is rife with strange goings-on... murders, sudden illnesses, and weird skulking creatures. Then a doctor asks him to help a desperately sick girl by donating blood, and before long, the weakened wayfarer is lost in hallucinations, imagining himself buried alive... or could it be real? [More]

Starring: Julian West, Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Jan Hieronimko

Starring: Julian West, Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Jan Hieronimko, Rena Mandel, Henriette Gerard, Albert Bras, N. Babanini, Jan Mora

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

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Jul 21, 1998

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  • Freely adapted from classic Victorian supernatural tales by author Sheridan Le Fanu, "Vampyr" tells the story of a young man who becomes involved with two sisters, one of whom, wasting away with a strange sickness, turns out to be the victim of a vampire. Director Carl Theodor Dreyer transformed Le Fanu's horror tales into a mystic quest, a meditation on the theme of death, and neatly fashioned it as an abstract experimental film. The camera is like a sleepwalker, leading us, trancelike, into a labyrinth from which cause and effect have disappeared. The hauntingly sinister atmosphere created is disquieting and unforgettable.
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    Vampyr is Dreyer's most radical film -- maybe one of my dozen favorite movies by any director.

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    If you've never seen a Carl Dreyer film and wonder why many critics, myself included, regard him as possibly the greatest of all filmmakers, this chilling horror fantasy is the perfect place to begin to understand.

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