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Vampyr (1932)
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
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From Time Out Film Guide
Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's novel In a Glass Darkly and shot in France using real locations, Vampyr is one of the first psychological horror films. Helped by a dream-like logic, the film takes its main character on a voyage through light and darkness to a point where he can imagine his own burial (disturbingly shot from a subjective point of view). With the help of Rudolph Maté's luminous photography, Dreyer creates a film of great beauty. Often the close-ups are particularly haunting, but the main achievement is the correctness of each shot, and their relationship to each other; notably, in the climactic juxtapositions of the trapped doctor being buried alive in the mill, and of the young couple in a boat, inching their way to safety through the fog.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Producer: Carol Theodor Dreyer, Nicolas de Gunzburg
Cast: Julian West Nicolas de Gunzburg, Henriette Gérard, Jan Hieronimko, Maurice Schutz, Sybille Schmitz, Rena Mandel full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 83 mins
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