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DVD : Vampyr - Criterion Collection
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515030427
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Running Time: 75 minutes
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1931
Sales Rank: 13036
MPN: IMEDCC1757D
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Album Description:
With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (as in The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result-concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers at an inn 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 roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares.
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In this chilling, atmospheric film from 1932, Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer favors style over story, offering a minimal plot that draws only partially from established vampire folklore. Instead, Dreyer emphasizes an utterly dreamlike visual approach, using trick photography (double exposures, etc.) and a fog-like effect created by allowing additional light to leak onto the exposed film. The result is an unsettling film that seems to spring literally from the subconscious, freely adapted from the Victorian short story Carmilla by noted horror author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, about a young man who discovers the presence of a female vampire in a mysterious European castle. There's more to the story, of course, but it's the ghostly, otherworldly tone of the film that lingers powerfully in the memory. Dreyer maintains this eerie mood by suggesting horror and impending doom as opposed to any overt displays of terrifying imagery. Watching Vampyr is like being placed under a hypnotic trance, where the rules of everyday reality no longer apply. As a splendid bonus, the DVD includes The Mascot, a delightful 26-minute animated film from 1934. Created by pioneering animator Wladyslaw Starewicz, this clever film--in which a menagerie of toys and dolls springs to life--serves as an impressive precursor to the popular Wallace & Gromit films of the 1990s. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  -
After reading all the hype surrounding this film, I couldn't wait to see it. Criterion has done a masterful job with the restoration, and the packaging is sumptuous. Full marks!
The film itself, sadly, is a disappointment. It was so disjointed that the accompanying audio commentary is a real boon. Even then, it becomes apparent that Vampyr is a "triumph" of style over substance. The conclusion of the plot, such as it is, has holes big enough to drive a truck through, and the whole thing ... Read More
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Vampyr (1932) While I enjoy a lot of movies both new and old, sometimes there are films that I watch and end up appreciating more than enjoying. This is one of those films. Director Carl Theodore Dreyer wanted to experiment with light and shadow effects in a film to create an atmosphere of dread. The movie that resulted is more visual than aural; a nearly silent affair with only some synchronized sound. For his story Dreyer credits the vampire tale Carmilla, but what's onscreen bears little resemblance ... Read More
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1932, just before the beginning of the dramatic Nazi nightmare. Another vampire film. Yes indeed. But this one has something special, an ambiance that is more modern, that is different. What is it? First the rhythm is slow, a lot slower than usual in such films. No haste, no running, no hectic chase or race. Just the slow time of a village, and yet that village has something mysterious, people going around in the dark, bells ringing to call the ferry boat that is going to take the farmer and his scythe ... Read More
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I was recommended by none other than the Wall Street Journal recently that this was the "scariest movie ever". Not. Want scary? Avoid this over-hyped trash with all its subliminal scary faces and rent "The Exorcist". Or, go to youtube and watch the Mumbai attacks for real fear. This movie is not scary! It is stupid. Even "Dracula" wth Bela Lugosi was at least far more interesting. Put a stake through this one's heart.
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Just like Japan gave us great Godzilla movies Germany was tops in developing the Dracula lore. First of course was F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu and then there's Vampyr...different but still scarey.
It's a different movie because its more stream of consciousness so there's this dreamy feel (nightmarey feel?) to it as the main character visits a town that turns out to be vampyr central.
Some of the best devices in this are where you see the guy being buried from his perspective and one ... Read More
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