Vampyr (The Criterion Collection)

UPC: 715515030427

Format: DVDMultiple Formats, Black & White, NTSC, Silent, Special Edition, Subtitled

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In this chilling, atmospheric film from 1932, Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer favors style over story, offering a minimal plot that draws only partially from established vampire folklore. Instead, Dreyer emphasizes an utterly dreamlike visual approach, using trick photography (double exposures, etc.) and a fog-like effect created by allowing additional light to leak onto the exposed film. The result is an unsettling film that seems to spring literally from the subconscious, freely adapted from the Victorian short story Carmilla by noted horror author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, about a young man who discovers the presence of a female vampire in a mysterious European castle. There's more to…

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List Price: $39.95
Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Actors: N. Babanini Albert Bras Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg Henriette Gerard Jan Hieronimko
Size: 7.9000" x 5.7000"
Weight: 1.0000 lbs.
Language: English, German, English