Hard To Follow, but Creey Just the Same

Vampyr (1932)

Director- Carl Theodore Dryer

Starring- Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel

A young occult academic happens upon a manor. Attempts to stay the night bring nightmares of spectral occurrences and horrific type goings-on, like shadows that take on a life of their own. He soon finds out a vampire is on the loose and taking victims in the area.

This movie looks like what someone might be dreaming after having watched Dracula or Nosferatu. The plot takes elements from both, but then adds a more ghostly element to it, as well as the feeling of being in a constant dreamlike state of observation.

Though there is sound, subtitles are used here and there to explain things. The acting ain't half bad--more modern-feeling than other movies of its time, for the most part less theatrical.

Some scenes just seem creepy, like a scene in which a vamp victim is sitting up in bed and just staring along the ceiling, slowly gazing around for about 20 seconds.

The only downside is that the plot is often times as cloudy as the atmosphere in the movie.

Rating: 3.5/5 Bonedaddies.