VAMPYR (Masters of Cinema) Standard Edition Blu-ray
The first foray into sound filmmaking by one of cinema's pivotal artists,Ā VampyrĀ remains a cornerstone work of the horror genre. The dreamlike tale of an occult-obsessed student's visit to a small French village, as he is drawn into the unsettling mystery around a stricken family's struggle with malevolent forces, remains an unparalleled evocation of the uncanny.
Adapting the haunted stories of Sheridan Le Fanu,Ā Carl Th. Dreyer's ceaseless innovation delivers a tour-de-force of supernatural phantasmagoria and creeping unease, via audacious camerawork and sound design.
Presented from a 2K restoration by the Danish Film Institute, supported by the MEDIA program Creative Europe, and taking more than a decade to complete ā materials from several European archives (including the BFI, CNC and DFI) have been meticulously scanned and assessed to create the highest quality and most faithful version ofĀ VampyrĀ possible. Unveiled for the filmāsĀ 90th anniversary, one of the most visually and aurally distinctive horror films ever made comes to Blu-ray in a Standard Edition, in a definitive incarnation that achieves the full experience Dreyer intended audiences to have.
STANDARD-EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES
- 2K digital restoration of the German version by the Danish Film Institute, completed in 2020 after an extensive decade-long restoration process, with uncompressed mono soundtrack
- Optional unrestored audio track
- Two audio commentaries: one by critic and programmer Tony Rayns; the second by filmmaker andĀ VampyrĀ fan Guillermo del Toro
- Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on DreyerāsĀ VampyrĀ influences
- New video interview with author and critic Kim Newman onĀ Vampyr's unique place within vampire cinema
- Two new video interviews with music and cultural historian David Huckvale on the film's score and its adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu
- Carl Th. DreyerĀ (1966) ā a documentary by Jƶrgen Roos
- Two deleted scenes, removed by the German censor in 1932
- The Baron ā a short MoC documentary about Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg
- Optional English subtitles
PRESS
āā ā ā ā ā Ā One of the finest and most enduringly mysterious of horror filmsā āĀ Time Out
āā ā ā ā ā Ā A vampire film like no otherā¦ a waking nightmare of eerie, ethereal horrorā āĀ Total Film
āā ā ā ā ā Ā an opaqueĀ andĀ disconcerting horror movieā āĀ Financial Times
āā ā ā ā ā Ā unsettling and triumphantā āĀ Home Cinema Choice
āā ā ā ā Ā genuinely creepyā āĀ Metro
āthe quintessential art-horror movieā āĀ Telegraph
"As close as you get to a poem on film" āĀ Guillermo del ToroĀ (Director:Ā Pans Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley)
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The first foray into sound filmmaking by one of cinema's pivotal artists,Ā VampyrĀ remains a cornerstone work of the horror genre. The dreamlike tale of an occult-obsessed student's visit to a small French village, as he is drawn into the unsettling mystery around a stricken family's struggle with malevolent forces, remains an unparalleled evocation of the uncanny.
Adapting the haunted stories of Sheridan Le Fanu,Ā Carl Th. Dreyer's ceaseless innovation delivers a tour-de-force of supernatural phantasmagoria and creeping unease, via audacious camerawork and sound design.
Presented from a 2K restoration by the Danish Film Institute, supported by the MEDIA program Creative Europe, and taking more than a decade to complete ā materials from several European archives (including the BFI, CNC and DFI) have been meticulously scanned and assessed to create the highest quality and most faithful version ofĀ VampyrĀ possible. Unveiled for the filmāsĀ 90th anniversary, one of the most visually and aurally distinctive horror films ever made comes to Blu-ray in a Standard Edition, in a definitive incarnation that achieves the full experience Dreyer intended audiences to have.
STANDARD-EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES
- 2K digital restoration of the German version by the Danish Film Institute, completed in 2020 after an extensive decade-long restoration process, with uncompressed mono soundtrack
- Optional unrestored audio track
- Two audio commentaries: one by critic and programmer Tony Rayns; the second by filmmaker andĀ VampyrĀ fan Guillermo del Toro
- Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on DreyerāsĀ VampyrĀ influences
- New video interview with author and critic Kim Newman onĀ Vampyr's unique place within vampire cinema
- Two new video interviews with music and cultural historian David Huckvale on the film's score and its adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu
- Carl Th. DreyerĀ (1966) ā a documentary by Jƶrgen Roos
- Two deleted scenes, removed by the German censor in 1932
- The Baron ā a short MoC documentary about Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg
- Optional English subtitles
PRESS
āā ā ā ā ā Ā One of the finest and most enduringly mysterious of horror filmsā āĀ Time Out
āā ā ā ā ā Ā A vampire film like no otherā¦ a waking nightmare of eerie, ethereal horrorā āĀ Total Film
āā ā ā ā ā Ā an opaqueĀ andĀ disconcerting horror movieā āĀ Financial Times
āā ā ā ā ā Ā unsettling and triumphantā āĀ Home Cinema Choice
āā ā ā ā Ā genuinely creepyā āĀ Metro
āthe quintessential art-horror movieā āĀ Telegraph
"As close as you get to a poem on film" āĀ Guillermo del ToroĀ (Director:Ā Pans Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley)
