The greatest vampire film ever made and one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the horror genre.
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01/01/00
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... [More]
Starring: Julian West, Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Jan Hieronimko
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Reviews for Vampyr
With the help of Rudolph Maté's luminous photography, Dreyer creates a film of great beauty.
01/26/06
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.
08/19/08
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.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/23/04
remarkable for the way that it explored the occult some 76 years ago.
07/30/08
This psychological horror tale, one of the first of its kind, is both unique and beautifully luminous.
11/26/01
No review available.
06/19/05
Vampyr is Dreyer's most radical film -- maybe one of my dozen favorite movies by any director.
08/28/08
It's a masterpiece that gives me the chills.
01/01/00
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.
07/23/09
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.
09/19/07
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.
09/24/08
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.
11/01/04
The notion of cinema as dreamscape has rarely been realized as exquisitely as in Danish writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer's moody vampire tale.
08/06/08
Vampyr plays like a musty old photo that wakes to jolting life.
08/26/08
No review available.
11/11/03
Sublimely creepy, and a surrealist surprise from this usually ascetic director.
08/13/04
Dreyer's stunning vampire classic.
09/07/01
Penetrates deep into the psyche to carry out its menacing, ethereal lurk.
07/04/07
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