The great aesthetic of film, Carl Theodor Dreyer makes a vampire film and it's a creepy slow moving artistic take on the horror genre.
Dreyer shot the film entirely on location as a silent film and added the soundtrack in post production. Most of the cast was made up of nonprofessional actors. The cinematography was by Rudolph Mate who captured some very eerie images using light, smoke and shadows.
Even at 74 minutes, this is a very slow moving film. The story is difficult to follow at times and you have to pay fairly close attention to understand exactly what is going on. In other words this is a European art film.
Nobody ever went to a Dreyer film expecting a slam bang action epic. But this is an interesting film, primarily due to the mood and the creepy atmosphere that runs throughout Vampyr.
75 minutes
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