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Vampyr - Criterion Collection
from Criterion
starring N. Babanini, Albert Bras, Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg, Henriette Gerard, Jan Hieronimko
directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

Features:

• Black & White
• DVD-Video
• Special Edition
• Subtitled

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• um, weak
  I was recommended by none other than the Wall Street Journal recently that this was the "scariest movie ever". Not. Want scary? Avoid this over-hyped trash with all its subliminal scary faces and rent "The Exorcist". Or, go to youtube and watch the Mumbai attacks for real fear. This movie is not scary! It is stupid. Even "Dracula" wth Bela Lugosi was at least far more interesting. Put a stake through this one's heart.

• Not Nosferatu but still scarey...
  Just like Japan gave us great Godzilla movies Germany was tops in developing the Dracula lore. First of course was F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu and then there's Vampyr...different but still scarey.
  It's a different movie because its more stream of consciousness so there's this dreamy feel (nightmarey feel?) to it as the main character visits a town that turns out to be vampyr central.
  Some of the best devices in this are where you see the guy being buried from his perspective and one of the vampyrs... more info

• A nightmare captured on film.
  Released at the same time as Dracula and Frankenstein,Carl Theodor Dreyer's dreamlike film,"Vampyr" is one of the few times in cinema a director has succeded in capturing a nightmare on the screen.
  The film loosely follows Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla",Vampyr follows the story of a wanderer who finds himself in a village surrounded by superstition and the supernatural.
  The mood Dreyer creates is one of intense dread and terror,creating a dream like feel to the film utilizing elements such as cloth... more info

• A restored Vampyr
  Carl Dreyer is a film-maker's film-maker. His films resonate, and are imbued not just with striking images, mise-en-scene and editing choices, but with a numinous nexus of meaning. I'll watch a Dreyer film, and in the course of the days and weeks to come, a moment or moments from the film: a notion, a face, a dramatic epiphany, (or all these things), will return to haunt me. Fortunately it's not usually a spooky haunting, but an artistic one: the mastery of Dreyer as a cineaste strikes notes which always... more info

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