Dreyer, Carl Theodor - Vampyr

VampyrDirected by Carl Theodor Dreyer 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 of Paris—is nearly unclassifiable. A host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds create a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES High-definition digital transfer of the original German-language version of the film from the 1998 restoration by Martin Koerber and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Alternate version with English text Audio commentary from 2008 featuring film scholar Tony Rayns Carl Th. Dreyer, a 1966 documentary by Jørgen Roos chronicling Dreyer’s career Video essay