Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West, aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead and the living, of ghostly lore and demonology, which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling, and upsetting, mystery. At its core: troubled Gisèle, chaste daughter and sexual incarnation, portrayed by the great, cursed Sybille Schmitz (Diary of a Lost Girl, and inspiration for Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss.) Before the candles of Vampyr exhaust themselves, Allan Gray and the viewer alike come eye-to-eye with Fate — in the face of dear dying Sybille, in the blasphemed bodies of horrific bat-men, in the charged and mortal act of asphyxiation — eye-to-eye, then, with Death — the supreme vampire.

Deemed by Alfred Hitchcock ‘the only film worth watching… twice’, Vampyr’s influence has become, by now, incalculable. Long out of circulation in an acceptable transfer, The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Dreyer’s truly terrifying film in its film restored form for the first time in the UK.

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SPECIAL FEATURES
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New, high-definition transfer of
the Martin Koerber / Cineteca
di Bologna film restoration
in its original aspect ratio (1.19:1)
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New and improved English subtitles
(optional)
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Full-length audio commentary
featuring film scholar Tony Rayns
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Full-length audio commentary featuring
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del
Toro on one of his favourite films
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Choice of restored or unrestored audio
track
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Two deleted scenes, removed by the
German censor in 1932
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Carl Th. Dreyer (1966) – a
documentary by Jörgen Roos
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Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg
on Dreyer’s Vampyr influences
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The Baron – a short MoC documentary
about Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg
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Inspiration for the film – Sheridan
Le Fanu’s Carmilla – as an
on-disc pdf.
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80-page book featuring rare production stills,
a facsimile reproduction of the 1932 Danish
film programme, writing by Tom Milne
(The Cinema of Carl Dreyer), Jean
and Dale Drum (My Only Great Passion:
The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer),
and Martin Koerber (film restorer).
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France | 72 min.
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1.19:1 OAR pillarboxed
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black & white
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monaural
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