Vampyr

In various ways the three pioneering sources - "Nosferatu," "Dracula" and "Vampyr" - seem to keep echoing down the decades.

The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

As much as it pains me to do so, I have to echo Jonathan: the release of "Vampyr" in two fabulous edition so doesn't suck it ain't funny.

And that doesn't suck either! Arbogast 2008

Marschner, too, whose 'Vampyr' and 'Templer und Jüdin' had been recently produced at

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"Vampyr" deployed a stoutish elderly figure played by Henriette Gerard as its elusive vampire, called Marguerite Chopin, but never distinctly male or female.

The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

This time he's decided to soundtrack Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr, one of the original and best vampire movies, which conjures more uncanny chills with its haunting imagery, atmospheric lighting and seamless old-school effects than a thousand CGI-splatter antecedents ever managed to do.

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Second the recs for Vampyr, and for the Val Lewton movies.

Interviews with various vampires 2008

A decade after "Nosferatu," the great Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer shot "Vampyr (Der Traum des Allan Gray)" (1932), based on another supernatural tale.

A Bite in the Darkness 2010

BAMcin matek's 33-film series sweeps a long, black cloak across the history of vampire cinema: From primal iterations in F.W. Murnau's neo-expressionist "Nosferatu" (1922) and Carl Theodor Dreyer's austere and minimalist "Vampyr" (1932), to the latter-day incarnations of Nicolas Cage's cockroach-chewing bite victim in "Vampire's Kiss" (1988) and Bill Paxton as the leader of a gang of biker vampires, bleeding dry the Texas honky-tonks in Kathryn Bigelow's "Near Dark" (1987).

Psychos and Suckers 2010

But where I think it fails is in trying to intellectualize the vampire genre instead of making it exotic (or erotic) in the way Vampyr and Nosferatu (Murnau or Herdog's), were.

My Bloodyguard Arbogast 2009

Now, for the film, I don't agree that Let The Right One In brings the movie back to first principles - in line with, say, Vampyr.

My Bloodyguard Arbogast 2009