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Vampyr
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305078494
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Silent, NTSC
ISBN: 6305078491
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
MPN: 4308
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: May 13, 1998
Running Time: 72 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1931
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Editorial Review:
In this chilling, atmospheric German film from 1932, director Carl Theodor Dreyer favors style over story, offering a minimal plot that draws only partially from established vampire folklore. Instead, Dreyer emphasizes an utterly dreamlike visual approach, using trick photography (double exposures, etc.) and a fog-like effect created by allowing additional light to leak onto the exposed film. The result is an unsettling film that seems to spring literally from the subconscious, freely adapted from the Victorian short story Carmilla by noted horror author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, about a young man who discovers the presence of a female vampire in a mysterious European castle. There's more to the story, of course, but it's the ghostly, otherworldly tone of the film that lingers powerfully in the memory. Dreyer maintains this eerie mood by suggesting horror and impending doom as opposed to any overt displays of terrifying imagery. Watching Vampyr is like being placed under a hypnotic trance, where the rules of everyday reality no longer apply. As a splendid bonus, the DVD includes The Mascot, a delightful 26-minute animated film from 1934. Created by pioneering animator Wladyslaw Starewicz, this clever film--in which a menagerie of toys and dolls springs to life--serves as an impressive precursor to the popular Wallace & Gromit films of the 1990s. --Jeff Shannon
Carl Theodor Dreyer's eerie horror classic stars Julian West as a visitor to a remote inn under the spell of an aged, bloodthristy female vampire. Extremely atmospheric, this rare gem delivers a decided chill.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A human soul in fear of Death cried out
The rat-toothed Nosferatu and the charming Transylvanian Count are the best known examples of early vampire movies, mostly because there weren't very many others at the time.
But more often than not, "Vampyr" gets passed over when you talk about early vampire movies -- and that's a shame. Carl Th. Dreyer's masterpiece (loosely based on the works of J. Sheridan Le Fanu) is a straightforward little story wrapped in a hazy cocoon of dreamlike imagery and haunting direction. From the very ... Read More
Rating: - this is how nightmares are
*Vampyr* is full of stark and terrifying images, and the atmosphere of eeriness and illogic approximates the feel of a nightmare better than any horror film... That's not knocking other horror films; most horror films are out to tell a story, but *Vampyr* is about images and atmosphere and in the process creates something truly haunting.
Rating:  - creepy
very creepy, and entertaining silent film. very well directed, and acted. this film is no nosferatu, but the images presented here left me in awe. i wonder what this movies impact had on its original audience. check it out.
Rating:  - Down loaded another film
I asked for this film but got a hodgepodge of other films and TV shows in it's place. Strange.
Rating:  - Not bad, but the new transfer should improve things.
Vampyr: Der Traum des Allan Grey (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
Carl Theodor Dreyer is universally considered one of the greatest directors who ever lived, but I'm pretty sure that even his staunchest defenders would admit that his movies are something of an acquired taste. Vampyr is no exception to the rule, a melodramatic potboiler loosely based on a Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla, but markedly different than any other potboiler-- or any other melodrama-- you're ever likely to see. Dreyer steeped ... Read More
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