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Criterion Collection: Vampyr (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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With Vampyr, Danish fiImmaker CarI Theodor Dreyer's brilIiance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundIy unsettIing imagery (as in The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once appIied to the horror genre. Yet the resuIt-concerning an occuIt student assaiIed by various supernatural haunts and locaI evildoers at an inn outside Paris-is nearly uncIassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and denseIy layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiIing fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares. |
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