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Vampyr, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)

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Vampyr (Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey) (1932) Carl Theodor Dreyer

March 5th 2024

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Dread by the Decade: Vampyr – Der Traum des Allan Gray

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★★★

Plot: A man must save two young women from a vampire’s curse.

Review: Vampyr boasts striking visuals, a noteworthy experimental style, and interesting lore, but falls short in terms of plot and characters.

English Title: Vampyr: The Dream of Allan Gray Source Material: In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu Year: 1932 Genre: Vampires, Gothic Country: Germany Language: German Runtime: 1 hour 15 minutes

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Writers: Christen Jul, Carl Theodor Dreyer Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté Editors: Tonka Taldy, Carl Theodor Dreyer Composer: Wolfgang Zeller Cast: Nicolas de Gunzburg, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard, Maurice Schutz

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Story: 2.5/5 - Bare-bones, it works best when viewed as a dream. Too much time is dedicated to making the audience read lore written on screen and not enough on the monster.

Performances: 3.5/5 - Schmitz creates one of the most unsettling shots of the film without a word, and the rest of the cast is surprisingly strong for nonprofessional actors.

Cinematography: 4.5/5 - Fantastic camerawork, framing, and use of shadow.

Editing: 3/5 - Purposefully disjointed with varying degrees of success.

Music: 3/5

Effects: 4/5 - Really creative shadow effects and use of multiple exposure.

Sets: 4.5/5 - Varied and rich. The film was entirely shot on location to its benefit.

Costumes & Make-Up: 4/5

Trigger Warnings:

Very mild violence

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Rena Mandel in Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)

Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan HIeronimko, Henriette Gérard. Screenplay: Christen Jul, Carl Theodor Dreyer, based on a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu. Cinematography: Rudolph Maté. Art direction: Hermann Warm. Film editing: Tonka Taldy. Music: Wolfgang Zeller. 

In the catalog of vampire movies, Vampyr is probably the second scariest after Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922). Which is odd, because its narrative, based by director Carl Theodor Dreyer and co-writer Christen Jul on a story be Sheridan Le Fanu, is fractured and almost incoherent and its characterization scattered. But you get the feeling that Dreyer himself really believed in the malevolent creatures he put on film, not surprising since most of Dreyer's films were in one way or another about faith. One story has it that the look of the film came about accidentally: Cinematographer Rudolph Maté shot an early sequence slightly out of focus, and when he apologetically showed it to Dreyer, the director insisted that was exactly how he wanted the film to look. Maté consequently shot many sequences through gauze. Accident also dictated some of the story: Dreyer insisted on location shooting, and in scouting for places to shoot, discovered the flour mill, giving him the idea for the scene in which the doctor meets his rather gruesome end. The lead character, Allan Grey, was played by a non-professional, Nicolas de Gunzburg, under the pseudonym Julian West -- Gunzburg was also the principal financial backer of the film. Most of the rest of the cast were non-professionals as well, and the sense that Vampyr is the result of serendipitous filmmaking has given the film a certain cachet over the years, especially with filmmakers and critics struggling with the restrictions that the corporate bottom line places on their art. To my mind, Vampyr is a collection of fascinating, disturbing images -- the man with the scythe crossing the river, the play of eerie shadows, the unusually successful double exposure that gives us Grey's out-of-body experience, the sequence in which Grey sees himself in a coffin, and so on. But it seems to me to be brilliant parts in search of a satisfying whole.

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Halloween Horror Movie Review: Vampyr

Title: Vampyr Release Date: May 6, 1932 Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Production Company: Carl Theodor Dreyer-Filmproduktion | Tobis-Filmkuns Main Cast: Nicolas de Gunzburg (credited as Julian West) as Allan Gray Maurice Schutz as the Lord of the Manor Rena Mandel as Giséle Sybille Schmitz as Léone Jan Hieronimko as the Village Doctor Henriette Gérard as Marguerite Chopin Albert Bras as the Old…

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Bad movie I have Vampyr 1932

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Vampyr

directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932

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Ein Vampyrfilm. Es passiert eigentlich nicht viel, und es wird extrem wenig geredet. Der gesamte Text der Vampirdame ist, daß sie einmal “Ruhe!” ruft, als es die Schattengeister etwas zu bunt treiben. Dafür ist es aber dann doch recht unheimlich, und außerordentlich eigenwillig.

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Vampyr | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1932

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2021 Horror Challenge: [43/?]

↳ “Why does the doctor always come at night?” Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Plot: A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.

Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Jan Hieronimko, Sybille Schmitz & Henriette Gerard

With my other watch today, I decided to go really old school. I feel like with a challenge like this one it helps to balance out your watches by checking out older movies along the way. It allows you to see what helped influence things in the future. This is one of the early approaches to a vampire tale. It’s a short enough movie that it’s barely an hour long and I think that works here because it’s not a very dialogue heavy affair. It’s told slowly, despite that short time length. It’s actually rather light on plot too tbh since it’s more about the eerie atmosphere of it all instead I’d say. The visual part of it is great though. Striking and dreamy throughout. Some nice effects for the time period in there as well. So, on that end, I get why it’s considered a good movie. Narratively, it could have been better but it was still pretty cool to watch.

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7 / 10

Título Original: Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey

Año: 1932

Duración: 68 min

País: Alemania

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Guion: Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christen Jul (Novela: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)

Música: Wolfgang Zeller

Fotografía: Rudolph Maté (B&W)

Reparto: Julian West, Sybille Schmitz, Henriette Gérard, Jan Hieronimko, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel

Productora: Coproducción Alemania-Francia;

Género: Fantasy, Horror

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023649/

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvureohXvk

PELICULA COMPLETA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipd8DqjTYOg

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Vampyr (1932) - Episode 55 - Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

“Why does the doctor always come at night?” It’s just a guess, but maybe he’s one of the children of the night? Join this episode’s Grue Crew - Whitney Collazo, Joseph Perry, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr - as they visit the somnambulistic world of Carl Theodor Dreyer in his underrated classic, Vampyr (1932).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 55 – Vampyr(1932)

A mysterious, somnambulistic young man wanders into a village where a castle owner's daughters are endangered by an elderly vampire and her associates.

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  Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer (as Carl Th. Dreyer)

Writers: Sheridan Le Fanu (based on a book by) (as J. Sheridan Le Fanu), Christen Jul (screenplay), Carl Theodor Dreyer

Featured Cast:

Julian West (Nicolas de Gunzburg) as Allan Grey

Maurice Schutz as Der Schlossherr (The Lord of the Manor)

Rena Mandel as Gisèle

Sybille Schmitz as Léone

Jan Hieronimko as Der Dorfartz (The Village Doctor)

Henriette Gérard as Die alte Frau von Friedhof (The Old Woman from the Cemetery, Marguerite Chopin)

Albert Bras as Der alte Diener (The Old Servant)

N. Babanini as Seine Frau (His Wife)

Jane Mora as Die Krankenschwester (The Nurse)

Georges Boidin as Limping Man

Vampyr is as enigmatic a film as Dreyer is a filmmaker and despite the negative reviews at its release, has become somewhat of an underrated classic. Dreyer expects a lot from the audience so the plot is not an easy story to follow.

Whitney loves the visuals and wants to see it again to gain a better understanding. A film class was Joseph’s first experience with Vampyr and the most memorable scene for him is the death of the village doctor under an ever-growing mound of milled flour. Chad is seriously creeped out by the shadow people along with many other scenes and believes Vampyr is a bonafide horror classic. The extras included on the Criterion Blu-ray of the film gave Jeff a better understanding and Vampyr has rapidly become one of his favorite films. The Grue Crew gives Vampyr an enthusiastic recommendation! Be ready for a relatively opaque story accompanied by a visual feast!

The Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Grue Crew plan to release a new episode every other week. Hey, where else will you hear podcasts on films ranging from Nosferatu (1922) to Psycho (1960) to Strangler of the Swamp (1946)? The next episode in our very flexible schedule will be Nightmare (1964), a journey into mystery and psychological horror from Hammer Films.

Please send us feedback on the films we cover, ideas for future films, or the podcast itself. After all, without you, we’re just four somnambulistic horror freaks talking about the films we love. Send us an email at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com or leave us a message, a review, or a comment at GruesomeMagazine.com, iTunes, the Gruesome Magazine Horror News Radio Facebook group or your friendly neighborhood podcast aggregator.

To each of you from each of us, “Thank you so much for listening!”

Check out this episode!

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Vampyr (1932) follows Allan Grey (Nicolas de Gunzburg), a man who is interested in the macabre and dark arts, so he rents a room near Courtempierre in France in hopes of discovering something mysterious and grim. Unfortunately for Grey, his wish comes true.

Now this film has had quite the history. For starters, it is a German/French production written, produced, and directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dryer (most famous for his 1927 masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc). Dryer needed funding and to his luck he found aristocrat Nicolas de Gunzburg, who seemed very interested in the project and would help Dreyer fund it if he got a part. So, Gunzburg was casted as the lead and became a major producer. Given the delays, it missed out on being the first vampire film with sound; that title would go to Dracula (1931), though the two films were being made at the same time. Regardless, without Gunzburg chances are this film would not exist. Once preproduction and production wrapped, Dryer would edit the film into three different versions with one being German, one French, and the other English. Dryer purposely had few spoken lines in the film so it could later be dubbed over in the three separate languages. Once it was finally released, it received mixed to terrible reviews. Many audiences booed at it, and supposedly a riot broke out once as well. The poor reception lead Dryer to have a mental breakdown. Afterwards, the film would disappear from history until the 1960s where it was thankfully rediscovered. Parts of the film were gathered from all over the world, with the definitive German version being discovered in Australia. The English version is seemingly lost completely.

The film’s overall plot is weak and can be confusing. It’s really about the strange, surreal, and dreamlike visuals that make the film worthwhile. The camera is almost always moving and utilizing the spaces well. It even features an extensive nightmare scene from a first-person perspective which is done exceptionally well- it may even be the highlight of the film. The fact that the dubbing is off, that it’s almost a silent film but not completely, and that there are metaphors and symbolism spread throughout; all these factors just adds to the surreal quality. It’s a really unique film to say the least. Also, *SPOILERS* the vampire (Henriette Gerard) is depicted as an old mysterious woman who we barely see. This plays with the audience’s expectation, especially by casting a woman to play the vampire back in 1932. It is just a really odd film that seems to exist outside history much like an actual vampire.

If you are into classic horror, into visuals and style over plot, are a fan of Carl Dryer, and/or looking for something truly different, then this movie is for you. Personally, I am glad to have seen it, but I can only guarantee I will watch it once more in my life.  

PS: This film is partially inspired by Sheridan la Fanu’s 1872 vampire novel Carmilla, which predates Bram Stoker’s Dracula by twenty-six years.

PPS: Supposedly Adolf Hitler was known to avidly hate this film (I believe because he felt it had hidden political messages that went against his own beliefs).

Food for Thought: I have heard that the film could potentially meant to show the potential superstition against modern science because *SPOLIERS* the village doctor (Jan Hieronimko) works for the vampire by taking blood from the vampire’s victims and replacing it with poison (so the victim dies and joins the vampire). This is similar to how vampires drink the blood of their victims and replace it with their own evil and corruption.