Vampyr

Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932

I had high hopes for this one, since it's generally held to be a sort of long-lost classic. At first, it seemed to be living up to the promise - a creepy, surreal experience filled with interesting visuals like a shadow that wanders off by itself. Unfortunately, the plot eventually kicks in and it turns out to be a standard-issue vampire story, filled with endless shots of text from a book of vampire lore. There's still some interesting stuff to be had, like when the protagonist dreams of his own death, a rightly famous sequence. But as a whole, it really just falls apart.

3.5/10