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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 filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's briIliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettIing imagery (as in The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result-concerning an occult student assailed by various supernaturaI haunts and Iocal eviIdoers at an inn outside Paris-is nearly unclassifiabIe, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely 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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