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Vampyr, Janus Films ; ein Film der Carl Th. Dreyer Produktion ; manuskript [screenplay] Christen Jul und Carl Th. Dreyer ; regie [director], Carl Th. Dreyer ; Weltvertrieb [world distribution] Conti Film G.m.b.H. Berlin

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Vampyr

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Janus Films ; ein Film der Carl Th. Dreyer Produktion ; manuskript [screenplay] Christen Jul und Carl Th. Dreyer ; regie [director], Carl Th. Dreyer ; Weltvertrieb [world distribution] Conti Film G.m.b.H. Berlin

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The Criterion collection, 437

"With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyser's brilliance of achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village 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 rolling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares."--ContainerDisc 1: "This is the tale of the strange adventures of young Allan Gray, who immersed himself in the study of devil worship and vampires. Preoccupied with superstitions of centuries past, he became a dreamer for whom the line between the real and the supernatural became blurred. His aimless wanderings led him late one evening to a secluded inn by the river in a village called Courtempierre"--Title screen. Grey starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights (a man whose shadow has a life of its own, a mysterious scythe-bearing figure tolling a bell, a terrifying dream of his own burial) but things come to a head when one of the daughters of the lord of the castle succumbs to anaemia - or is it something more sinister?Disc 2: Supplements

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