Digital resurrection
Digital tools put in service of restoring films from a century ago produce spectacular results with Blu-rays of Carl Th. Dreyer’s uncanny Vampyr (1932) and Louis Feuillade’s serial Tih-Minh […]
Review: Vampyr (1932)
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Nicolas de Gunzburg, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko,
Nicolas de Gunzburg
Maurice Schutz
Rena Mandel
Sybille Schmitz
Jan Hieronimko
Plot: Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He's barely settled in when he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him 'she must not die'. One of the old man's daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. In order to break the curse, Gray and Leone's sister Gisele must find the original vampire and drive a stake through her heart.
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