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Vampyr

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Time Out says

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.
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Release Details

  • Duration:83 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Screenwriter:Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christen Jul
  • Cast:
    • Maurice Schutz
    • Rena Mandel
    • Julian West Nicolas de Gunzburg
    • Sybille Schmitz
    • Henriette Gérard
    • Jan Hieronimko
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