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Vampyr

  • 19321932
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 15m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
18K
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Sybille Schmitz in Vampyr (1932)
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
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  • Fantasy
  • Horror
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
18K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Writers
    • Sheridan Le Fanu(based on a book by)
    • Christen Jul(screenplay)
    • Carl Theodor Dreyer(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Julian West
    • Maurice Schutz
    • Rena Mandel
Top credits
  • Director
    • Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Writers
    • Sheridan Le Fanu(based on a book by)
    • Christen Jul(screenplay)
    • Carl Theodor Dreyer(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Julian West
    • Maurice Schutz
    • Rena Mandel
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 139User reviews
    • 163Critic reviews
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  • Videos1

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    Trailer 1:16
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    Julian West in Vampyr (1932)
    Jan Hieronimko and Georges Boidin in Vampyr (1932)
    Julian West in Vampyr (1932)
    Sybille Schmitz in Vampyr (1932)
    Jan Hieronimko in Vampyr (1932)
    Rena Mandel in Vampyr (1932)
    Henriette Gérard in Vampyr (1932)
    Vampyr (1932)
    Georges Boidin in Vampyr (1932)
    Vampyr (1932)
    Vampyr (1932)
    Vampyr (1932)

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    Julian West
    Julian West
    • Allan Grey
    Maurice Schutz
    Maurice Schutz
    • Der Schlossherr (The Lord of the Manor)
    Rena Mandel
    Rena Mandel
    • Gisèle
    Sybille Schmitz
    Sybille Schmitz
    • Léone
    Jan Hieronimko
    Jan Hieronimko
    • Der Dorfarzt (The Village Doctor)
    Henriette Gérard
    Henriette Gérard
    • Die alte Frau vom Friedhof (The Old Woman from the Cemetery)
    • (as Henriette Gérard)
    Albert Bras
    • Der alte Diener (The Old Servant)
    N. Babanini
    • Seine Frau (His Wife)
    Jane Mora
    • Die Krankenschwester (The Nurse)
    Georges Boidin
    Georges Boidin
    • Limping Man
    • Director
      • Carl Theodor Dreyer
    • Writers
      • Sheridan Le Fanu(based on a book by)
      • Christen Jul(screenplay)
      • Carl Theodor Dreyer(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      For much of the cast, this was their only film appearance since they were not professional actors. Henriette Gérard who played the vampire was a French widow, Jan Hieronimko who played the village doctor was a Polish journalist, Rena Mandel who played Gisèle was an artist's model. Even Julian West (real name: Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) who played Allan Grey, was French-born member of Russian nobility who agreed to finance the film in exchange for the leading part. (He later emigrated to America where he became a powerful fashion journalist and mentor to designers like Calvin Klein.)
    • Goofs
      At exactly 16 minutes (in the Criterion DVD) as the camera pans right, there is a reflection in a glass window of the camera operator cranking the camera.
    • Quotes

      Gisèle: Why does the doctor always come at night?

    • Connections
      Edited into Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1943)

    User reviews139

    Review
    Top review
    I don't think its a horror film
    Since I was a kid interested in foreign and older films, I've been haunted by this picture. I remember seeing a shot of the back of a woman's head. She slowly turns around to reveal black lips, darkened eyes, and a smile of someone possessed of the vampire spirit.

    Later, in school, I had the pleasure of seeing more of Dreyer's work. He didn't make any more 'horror pictures' to my knowledge, but everything else I saw had the same brooding, eerie sense, the same lack of interest in a driving plot, and the same photographic expertise that kept me enthralled when I first saw this picture.

    He's considered one of the masters. He's not to everyone's taste. But, with VAMPYR, he got to me before I ever learned how to say the word 'cinema.'
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    • Boomer-51
    • Oct 24, 1999

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    • Is "Vampyr" based on a book?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 14, 1934 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • France
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Castle of Doom
    • Filming locations
      • Abbaye de Braye, Braye, Aisne, France
    • Production company
      • Tobis Filmkunst
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 15 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.19 : 1

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