Vampyr tells with extraordinary images the nightmarish story of a young man who unwittingly becomes involved with two sisters and their father, all victims of a vampire. Dreyer has transformed LeFanu's horror tale Camilla into an abstract meditation on the theme of death, and his brilliant use of shadow, light, camera movement and settings are as unnerving today as they were upon this sinister film's release over 75 years ago. "A great vampire film. Dreyer preys upon our subconscious fears...its mood is evocative, dreamy, spectral" (Pauline Kael). In German with optional English subtitles.
