Vampyr
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Vampyr is a 1932 Gothic horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. It was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 collection of supernatural
Promotional image for Vampyr by Erik Aaes.
The village doctor suffocates under flour dropped from the mill above. This scene was added to the script during the film's production. German censors requested that the scene be toned down.
Allan Gray (Nicolas de Gunzburg) finds a coffin containing himself in a dream sequence. Modern critics praise this sequence as one of the most memorable sequences from Vampyr.
In a Glass Darkly
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In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five stories by the Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death. The second and third stories are revised versions of previou
Vampyr
…director Carl Theodor Dreyer. It was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 collection of supernatural stories In a Glass Darkly. The film was funded by Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, who (credited as Julian West) also played the starring role of Allan Gray, a student of the occult…
Illustration of Carmilla from The Dark Blue by David Henry Friston, 1872.