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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Just chose this one at random to post a general "review" of these reviews. For something to be a review it needs to express an opinion, good or bad, and unless soaked in brilliant prose and wit, usually requires some kind of analysis or justification. A simple assertion that something is crap is not a review although in extreme cases may be sufficient for a movie already regarded as z grade. But for movies that have been reviewed hundreds of times and viewed hundreds of time by people who have all coming to a different conclusion perhaps it's time to sit back and wonder why that might be. Are they all morons and you a genius? Just because a majority think a certain way doesn't necessarily make you the moron. But in this case it does. Your "reviews" are as bad as you seem to think many great movies are. Please stop "reviewing" (although you are a useful guide in that the opposite of whatever view you express is almost certainly closer to the real worth of whatever it is you are reviewing). Anyway perhaps it's time to retire to whatever your day job is and stop wasting space on the internet that could more usefully be devoted to something like cat videos.
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