Monday, 3 February 2014

More early German vampires

Vampyr (1932)

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer this film stars Nicolas de Gunzburg, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz and Jan Hieronimko. A young man out wandering stumbles into strange goings on in a village.

The plot for this film is pretty much your classic vampire tale with nothing that really surprises from the story. As this was Dreyer's first sound film and made in multiple languages there is little dialogue instead the film relies on inter titles in the style of a silent film a fair amount. Where the film is strongest is in the use of light and shadow in the style of German expressionism as well as some good dream style sequences.


4/5

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