Vampyr

Now this is an eerie little movie. Released four years after The Passion of Joan of Arc, his longest hiatus in his career up to this point, Dreyer’s Vampyr is a horror film without any real scares but an incredible sense of unease that steadily builds over its 73 minute runtime. It belongs to a subgenre of film that doesn’t fit comfortably under one main genre easily: the dream. Dario Argento’s Suspiria, Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, and David Lynch’s Lost Highway all exist here moving f...