VAMPYR BLU-RAY

With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer channeled his genius for creating mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, unsettling imagery into the horror genre. The result a chilling film about a student of the occult who encounters 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 creates a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's greatest nightmares.FEATURES:High-definition digital transfer of the original German version of the film, from the 1998 restoration by Martin Koerber and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackAlternate version with English textAudio commentary featuring film scholar Tony RaynsCarl Th. Dreyer, a 1966 documentary by Jorgen Roos chronicling Dreyer's careerVideo essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer's influences in creating VampyrRadio broadcast fr