Vampyr Blu-Ray

Vampire, which was the first sound film by one of cinema's most important artists, remains a cornerstone of the horror genre. The dreamlike tale of an occult-obsessed student who visits a small French village and is drawn into the disturbing mystery surrounding an afflicted family's struggle against evil forces remains an unsurpassed portrayal of the uncanny.

Based on Sheridan Le Fanu, Carl Th. Dreyer's constant innovation delivers a tour-de-force of supernatural phantasmagoria and creeping unease, aided by daring camera work and sound design.

The presentation is based on a 2K restoration by the Danish Film Institute, with support from the MEDIA program Creative Europe, and it has taken more than a decade to finalize material from several European archives (including the BFI, CNC, and DFI) to create the highest possible quality and most faithful version of Vampyr. One of the most visually and aurally distinctive horror films ever made is presented on Blu-ray in a standard edition for the film's 90th anniversary, in a definitive incarnation that provides the full experience Dreyer wanted the audience to have. Blu-ray in a standard edition, in a definitive incarnation that provides the full experience Dreyer wanted the audience to have.p>

2K digital restoration of the German version by the Danish Film Institute, completed in 2020 after an extensive ten-year restoration process, with uncompressed mono audio track | Optional restored audio track | Two audio commentaries: one by critic and presenter Tony Rayns, the other by filmmaker and Vampyr enthusiast Guillermo del Toro | Visual essay by researcher Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer's vampire influences | New video interview with author and critic Kim Newman on Vampyr's unique place in vampire cinema | Two new video interviews with music and cultural historian David Huckvale on the film's score and the adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu | Carl Th. Dreyer (1966) - a documentary by Jørgen Roos | Two deleted scenes that were removed by German censors in 1932 | The Baron - a short MoC documentary about Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg | Optional English subtitles | PLUS: A collector's booklet with a 1964 interview with Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg (producer and actor "Allan Gray"), an essay by Dreyer on the film's style, and writings by Tom Milne, Jean and Dale Drum, and film restorer Martin Koerber.

PRESS

"????? One of the finest and most enduringly mysterious horror films" - Time Out

"????? A vampire film like no other... a waking nightmare of eerie, ethereal horror" - Total Film

"????? an opaque and confusing horror film" - Financial Times

"????? disturbing and triumphant" - Home Cinema Choice

"???? is genuinely scary" - Metro

"The quintessential art horror film" - Telegraph

"As close as you can get to a poem on film" - Guillermo del Toro (director: Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley)