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.
Vampyr (1931)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:23
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.6/10
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
US Box Office: $0
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
Reviews for Vampyr
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 is Dreyer's most radical film -- maybe one of my dozen favorite movies by any director.
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.
An early sound film shot with a distinctive and evocative silent film aesthetic, Vampyr is a horror movie as tone poem.
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.
Penetrates deep into the psyche to carry out its menacing, ethereal lurk.
With the help of Rudolph Maté's luminous photography, Dreyer creates a film of great beauty.
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.
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.
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