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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 stories In a Glass Darkly. The film was funded by Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, who also played the starring role of Allan Gray, a student of the occult who wanders into the French village of Courtempierre, which is under…
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It is a commonplace among horror film aficionados that the main tropes and clichés of the genre, at least in its supernatural guise, were cemented in the 1930s by Hollywood’s Universal Studios. The iconic images of Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein’s Monster, and Claude Rains’s Invisible Man seem to define the cinematic language of terror for the popular audience. Yet, this prevailing narrative ove…More
