With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer channeled his genius for creating mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, unsettling imagery into the horror genre. The result-a chilling film about a student of the occult who encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris-is nearly unclassifiable.

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