DVD release for film on July 22. With Vampyr Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere profoundly unsettling imagery (as in The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result-concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers at an inn outside Paris-is nearly unclassifiable a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs ominous scythes and foreboding echoes Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares.
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"Dryer’s film is visually arresting. That the dialogue is so Spartan and unimportant allows the viewer to fully immerse themselves in the world he has created. It’s a visual, psychological and emotional journey into the heart of a nightmare—logic, linear progression and reason all fall by the wayside." ...Read More
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