The Horror genre was still finding its way in the 1930s, and most films were focused on how far they could push such unsuitable content. Filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer took a more visual approach. Groundbreaking for its time, Dreyer composed images with the same meticulousness Wes Anderson does now. Vampyr is a slow and somber film with inventive and spooky camerawork by Rudolph Maté. More a series of disorienting sequences than a cohesive story, the result is enigmatic. As a mood piece, it’s one of the key films of early Horror.
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