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Vampyr (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: | 73 minutes |
| Released: | 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 FEATURE:
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns
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