Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1931)
Average Rating: 8.6/10
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Full of disorienting visual effects, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr is as theoretically unsettling as it is conceptually disturbing.
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Full of disorienting visual effects, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr is as theoretically unsettling as it is conceptually disturbing.
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Vampyr ranks in many circles as one of the greatest horror films of all time. Inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, the story concerns a mysterious series of killings, committed by a crone of a female vampire (Henriette Gerard). The story is told through the eyes of a holiday reveller (Julian West), who at first scoffs at the notion of a supernatural murderer, but who is eventually forced to believe that there are more things in heaven and earth. Dreyer offers few explanations of the
May 6, 1932 Wide
May 13, 1998
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Cast
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Julian West
David Gray -
Maurice Schutz
Lord of the Manor -
Jan Hieronimko
Doctor -
Sybille Schmitz
His Daughter Leone -
Rena Mandel
His Daughter Gisele -
Henriette Gerard
Old Woman at Cemetery -
N. Babanini
His Wife -
Albert Bras
Servant -
Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg
David Gray
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Vampyr is Dreyer's most radical film -- maybe one of my dozen favorite movies by any director.
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.
With the help of Rudolph Maté's luminous photography, Dreyer creates a film of great beauty.
Top CriticAn often gauzy-gray movie that makes as much use of white as of the traditional horror-movie black, 'Vampyr' is so beautiful to look at, it's hypnotic.
In psychological effect, beautiful individual shots are contrasted and related one to another as in dreams or emotions rather than logic.
Vampyr might not be much of a vampire movie, but it's one hell of a horror movie. It creates a sense of unease that few films can compete with, casting viewers into a realm where meanings are elusive and terror lies in every shadow.
Almost entirely devoid of the outright thrills associated with the genre, while managing to be one of the creepiest, most unsettling movies you're ever likely to see.
Vampyr plays like a musty old photo that wakes to jolting life.
In a triumph of the irrational, Dreyer's eerie memento mori never allows either protagonist or viewer fully to wake up from its surreal nightmare.
The notion of cinema as dreamscape has rarely been realized as exquisitely as in Danish writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer's moody vampire tale.
remarkable for the way that it explored the occult some 76 years ago.
Tremendously eerie, even more than 75 years later.
An early sound film shot with a distinctive and evocative silent film aesthetic, Vampyr is a horror movie as tone poem.
Penetrates deep into the psyche to carry out its menacing, ethereal lurk.
Vampyr plays upon many archetypal fears of modern horror (science, doctors, disease, women, insanity, premature burial), but its power lies in its disorienting visual effects.
Sublimely creepy, and a surrealist surprise from this usually ascetic director.
Carl Dreyer's horror film is one of the most perfect examples of German Stimmung--mood--in the cinema.
This psychological horror tale, one of the first of its kind, is both unique and beautifully luminous.
Dreyer's stunning vampire classic.
Haunting and beautiful, Dreyer's horror film is both essential viewing for vampire buffs and one of the most inscrutable yet rewarding experiences in movie history.
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Foreign Titles
- Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (DE)
- Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (UK)
