Vampyr

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Freely adapted from classic Victorian supernatural tales by author Sheridan Le Fanu, this first sound film from legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer is a supremely strange, oneiric film that comes from a little-visited land of shadows through which the viewer is led, as though guided in a trance, through a realm akin to a waking dream.

Traveller Allan Gray 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.

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Full-length audio commentary featuring Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro talking about one of his favourite films; New, high-definition transfer of the Martin Koerber / Cineteca di Bologna film restoration in its original aspect ratio (1.19:1); New and improved English subtitle translation; Full-length audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns; Two deleted scenes, removed by the German censor in 1932; Carl Th. Dreyer (1966): a documentary by Jörgen Roos; Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer's Vampyr influences; The Baron – a short MoC documentary about Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg; Inspiration for the film - Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla - as an on-disc PDF; 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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