Vampyr

Vampyr

DVD - 2008

"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."--Container.

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Subjects
Vampires > Drama.
Horror > Feature.
Horror films.
Vampire films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Horror Feature
Horror films
Vampire films
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection [2008]
Language
German
English
Corporate Author
Conti Film G.m.b.H
Corporate Author
Conti Film G.m.b.H (production company)
Other Authors
Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1889-1968 (film director), Christen Jul (screenwriter), Julian West, 1904-1981 (actor), Maurice Schutz (-), Rena Mandel, 1901-1987, Sybille Schmitz, 1909-1955, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard, Albert Bras, 1865-1942, N. Babanini, Jane Mora, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1814-1873
Item Description
Title from feature.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931/32.
Based on the book : In a glass darkly / by J. [Joseph] Sheridan Le Fanu.
"Vampyr was produced in 1931/32 in German, French, and English versions. The original negative for picture and sound was lost. Partially complete prints of the German and French versions served as the basis for this restoration. The new German version of 1998 was a collaboration between Cineteca del Comune de Bologna, Deutsche Kinemathek and ZDF/Arte."--Opening screen note.
Special features (disc 1): optional "English-text version", optional audio commentary by film scholar Tony Rayns.
Special features (disc 2): "Carl Th. Dreyer" biographical documentary (30 min.); "Visual essay" critical essay featurette (36 min.); "Dreyer radio broadcast" audio recording of Dreyer reading an essay on filmmaking (24 min.).
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; Dolby digital mono; 1.19:1 aspect ratio.
Audience
Not rated.
Production Credits
Photography, Rudolph Maté ; music, Wolfgang Zeller.
ISBN
9781604650464
  • Disc 1. The film
  • Disc 2. The supplements.
Review by Library Journal Review

After making the wrenchingly poignant silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc, Danish director Carl Dreyer (Day of Wrath) here made his mark on the horror genre. A student of the occult finds himself enmeshed in supernatural goings-on at an inn near Paris in this obliquely nightmarish movie, which relies on disturbing imagery, intricate sound effects, and highly creative editing to work its not inconsiderable magic. For serious collections. High-def digital transfer. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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