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Vampyr Carl Theodor Dreyer 1932 |
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An early sound film shot with a distinctive and evocative silent film aesthetic, Vampyr is a horror movie as tone poem. Dialogue is sparse and large blocks of text provide the exposition. It’s an eerily abstract film of vague motivations and ethereal imagery from the opening scenes.
Our hero Allan Gray is vaguely interested in the supernatural, but he walks into a village like a dazed innocent whose walking tour of familiar countryside takes him into unfamiliar terrain, a cursed village that is, for all intents and purposes, isolated from the world. A villager with a scythe rings a bell on a misty lake as he arrives, already conjuring a feeling of death and portents of supernatural things to come. |
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