Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr

Dreyer is a director I've been reading about for a long time but have yet to get around too, I would always look at his stuff my college library but never made him as my choice. So after reading another article by Paul Schrader where he exalts Dreyer I figured it was time to get a move on. So I watched Vampyr. In General its a bit of a mess. Its a bit hard to follow and is fairly light on exposition but whatever its a stylish masterwork. Dreyers smooth flowing camera really has to be beheld and will take you off guard. There are two particularly amazing scenes one in which the strange doctor comes to meet our intrepid hero face to face coming down a dim stairway which is short but sweet. The second is a long dream sequence where our the main character leaves his body for a macabre bit of hallucination captured immaculately.

5/5

Massive Attack video featuring one the killer scenes from Vampyr.