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Vampyr (1931)

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Reviews Counted:78

Fresh:64

Rotten:14

Average Rating:7.2/10

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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