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Vampyr - Criterion Collection (1932)
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| Starring: | Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Albert Bras, Henriette Gerard, Jane Mora, N. Babanini |
| Director: | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| Genre: | Foreign, Germany, Horror |
| Year: | 1932 |
| Studio: | Criterion |
| Length: | 75 minutes |
| Release Date: | July 22, 2008 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Subtitled), German(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS: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.
NOTE: Vampyr is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.19:1, a European format that is narrower than a 1.33:1 image. The black bars along the side of the screen, called "pillarboxing," are normal for this format, and will be even more pronounced on widescreen televisions.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns
- Carl Th. Dreyer (1966), a documentary by Jörgen Roos chronicling Dreyer's career
- Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer's influences in creating Vampyr
- A 1958 radio broadcast of Dreyer reading an essay about filmmaking
- PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Mark Le Fanu and Kim Newman, Martin Koerber on the restoration, and an archival interview with producer and star Nicolas de Gunzburg, as well as a book featuring Dreyer and Christen Jul's original screenplay and Sheridan Le Fanu 1871 story "Carmilla," a source for the film
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