Julian West,
Maurice Schutz,
Jan Hieronimko,
Sybille Schmitz,
Rena Mandel
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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 fem... read more
DVD Release Date: May 13, 1998
Stats: 430 reviews
The plot can be a little light and incoherent at times, but Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Vampyr" manages to be an effectively creepy film. The gothic scenery and unsettling visuals give the film a "nightmare" sensibility that makes this a great horror movie to watch on a dark Hallowee... read more
Probably the most frightening film I've seen to come out of the 1930's. The visuals are still enough to give you nightmares.
How to describe Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr: It's the cinematic equivalent of wandering alone in a graveyard at midnight. Allan Grey, a supernatural afficionado, stumbles on an eerie Inn in the Scandanavian countryside. It's there a vampire is feeding on the blood of children ... read more
widely rejected by critics at the time of release, dreyers classic horror film must have been ahead of its time because critics and fans alike now love this film. the film is rigorously slow paced, in some senses patient and in other senses laborious, the strength of the film re... read more
Dreyer achieves the same bleak and haunting atmosphere that I reach in my imagination while I read Lovecraft or Poe.
Atmospheric horror that uses limited dialogue and a clever use of camera and lightning techniques to tell it's story. I do felt a bit lost regarding the second, so it might need a rewatch.
Blending his mastery of the silent era with the storytelling of a voice production, Carl Theodore Dreyer constructed one of the most staple examples of the transition in filmmaking of this time. Vampyr is a strange, ghostly picture of eery visuals and dreamily progressing scenes.... read more
I love vampire movies, but this one is from the early thirties when they were just switching to sound, so there is only dialogue and no music, and the people in the movie don't say much. It could have been good as a silent film, I think. This movie is silent and boring, plus it... read more
Long on atmosphere but short on plot the film seems more like an expanded and bloated experimental piece using every camera gimmick possible for its time. Some of it works well like the dream sequence but the overuse of the same tricks and its thin story makes it a chore to sit t... read more
"Nots-feratu"
Sometimes, they say, you have to be in the right mood to appreciate a movie. But what does it say about the quality of that movie if it's intrinsic value can't be appreciated in any random circumstance? Vampyr, a film from 1932 (directed by the legendary Carl Dre... read more
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 ... Full Review
An 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. Full Review
In psychological effect, beautiful individual shots are contrasted and related one to another as in dreams or emotions rather than logic. Full Review
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 ... Full Review
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. Full Review
Vampyr plays like a musty old photo that wakes to jolting life. Full Review
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. Full Review
The notion of cinema as dreamscape has rarely been realized as exquisitely as in Danish writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer's moody vampire tale. Full Review
remarkable for the way that it explored the occult some 76 years ago. Full Review
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