This very traditional chamber murder mystery starring David Farrar and Geraldine Fitzgerald has been beautifully restored by Studiocanal and bears the original U.K. title The Late Edwina Black. When the sickly wife Edwina dies in bed the bitter housekeeper accuses the husband and another very attractive servant; all the Scotland Yard Inspector need do is stir the pot, and paranoid suspicions take over. Is Edwina’s spirit still present in the house? The housekeeper thinks she communicates through a wind chime by the window . . .
Obsessed
Blu-ray
ClassicFlix
1951 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 78 min. / Street Date February 28, 2023 / The Late Edwina Black / Available from / 29.99
Starring: David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Roland Culver, Jean Cadell, Mary Merrall, Harcourt Williams, Charles Heslop, Ronald Adam.
Cinematography: Stephen Dade
Art Direction: George Provis
Costume Designer: Elizabeth Haffenden
Film Editor: Douglas Myers
Original Music: Allan Gray
Screenplay by Charles Frank, David Evans from the play by William Dinner, William Morum...
Obsessed
Blu-ray
ClassicFlix
1951 / B&w / 1:37 Academy / 78 min. / Street Date February 28, 2023 / The Late Edwina Black / Available from / 29.99
Starring: David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Roland Culver, Jean Cadell, Mary Merrall, Harcourt Williams, Charles Heslop, Ronald Adam.
Cinematography: Stephen Dade
Art Direction: George Provis
Costume Designer: Elizabeth Haffenden
Film Editor: Douglas Myers
Original Music: Allan Gray
Screenplay by Charles Frank, David Evans from the play by William Dinner, William Morum...
- 3/7/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The long, long, long-delayed Marvel superhero movie “Morbius” finally hit theaters earlier this year (and is now on Netflix), and it may very well introduce a whole new generation to vampire movies. At least, one would hope. The vampire subgenre has been at the forefront of horror for over 100 years, and the myths of undead creatures living off of human blood go back countless years further. The best vampire movies ever made are, mostly, incredibly varied. There’s a whole of lot great “Dracula” movies out there, sure, but also art-house nightmares, mainstream action movies, silly comedies, Neo-westerns, heartwarming romances and more. And if you ask us, these are the very, very best.
“Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” (1922) Film Arts Guild
F.W. Murnau’s eerie silent classic is 100 years old, and it still has the power to shock and horrify. Telling an extremely plagiarized version of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” – Stoker’s estate successfully sued,...
“Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” (1922) Film Arts Guild
F.W. Murnau’s eerie silent classic is 100 years old, and it still has the power to shock and horrify. Telling an extremely plagiarized version of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” – Stoker’s estate successfully sued,...
- 9/16/2022
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
(Welcome to Year of the Vampire, a series examining the greatest, strangest, and sometimes overlooked vampire movies of all time in honor of "Nosferatu," which turns 100 this year.)
Allan Gray chases shadows. That sounds like a metaphor, and maybe it is one. However, it's also what Gray, played by Julian West (the screen name of Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg), does in a literal sense as he wanders around a sleepy European village looking for supernatural adventure in Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Vampyr."
One shadow has a peg leg; others enjoy dancing and digging. Yet by chasing them, what Gray really seeks to do...
The post Year of the Vampire: Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr Is A Waking Dream Inside A Coffin appeared first on /Film.
Allan Gray chases shadows. That sounds like a metaphor, and maybe it is one. However, it's also what Gray, played by Julian West (the screen name of Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg), does in a literal sense as he wanders around a sleepy European village looking for supernatural adventure in Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Vampyr."
One shadow has a peg leg; others enjoy dancing and digging. Yet by chasing them, what Gray really seeks to do...
The post Year of the Vampire: Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr Is A Waking Dream Inside A Coffin appeared first on /Film.
- 6/18/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 horror masterpiece “Vampyr” (now streaming on HBO Max) begins with a text crawl that describes the protagonist Allan Gray (Nicolas de Gunzburg) as “a dreamer for whom the line between the real and the supernatural [is] blurred.” It’s a descriptor that applies as much as to Dreyer’s main character as it does to Guillermo del Toro, who believes in monsters the way people believe in religion. Del Toro has long considered “Vampyr” to be one of his favorite films and a pillar of the horror genre, and all it takes is one viewing of Dreyer’s classic to see how it became a driving force behind del Toro’s own filmmaking vision.
“‘Vampyr’ is as close as...
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 horror masterpiece “Vampyr” (now streaming on HBO Max) begins with a text crawl that describes the protagonist Allan Gray (Nicolas de Gunzburg) as “a dreamer for whom the line between the real and the supernatural [is] blurred.” It’s a descriptor that applies as much as to Dreyer’s main character as it does to Guillermo del Toro, who believes in monsters the way people believe in religion. Del Toro has long considered “Vampyr” to be one of his favorite films and a pillar of the horror genre, and all it takes is one viewing of Dreyer’s classic to see how it became a driving force behind del Toro’s own filmmaking vision.
“‘Vampyr’ is as close as...
- 6/24/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 horror masterpiece “Vampyr” (now streaming on HBO Max) begins with a text crawl that describes the protagonist Allan Gray (Nicolas de Gunzburg) as “a dreamer for whom the line between the real and the supernatural [is] blurred.” It’s a descriptor that applies as much as to Dreyer’s main character as it does to Guillermo del Toro, who believes in monsters the way people believe in religion. Del Toro has long considered “Vampyr” to be one of his favorite films and a pillar of the horror genre, and all it takes is one viewing of Dreyer’s classic to see how it became a driving force behind del Toro’s own filmmaking vision.
“‘Vampyr’ is as close as...
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1932 horror masterpiece “Vampyr” (now streaming on HBO Max) begins with a text crawl that describes the protagonist Allan Gray (Nicolas de Gunzburg) as “a dreamer for whom the line between the real and the supernatural [is] blurred.” It’s a descriptor that applies as much as to Dreyer’s main character as it does to Guillermo del Toro, who believes in monsters the way people believe in religion. Del Toro has long considered “Vampyr” to be one of his favorite films and a pillar of the horror genre, and all it takes is one viewing of Dreyer’s classic to see how it became a driving force behind del Toro’s own filmmaking vision.
“‘Vampyr’ is as close as...
- 6/24/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Thompson on Hollywood
Of all the legendary early horror films Carl Theodor Dreyer’s vampire nightmare was once the most difficult to appreciate — until Criterion’s restoration of a mostly intact, un-mutilated full cut. Dreyer creates his fantasy according to his own rules — this pallid, claustrophobic horror is closer to Ordet than it is Dracula or Nosferatu.
Vampyr
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 437
1932 / Color / 1:19 Movietone Ap. / 73 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 3, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Julian West (Baron Nicolas De Gunzberg), Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard.
Cinematography: Rudolph Maté
Art Direction: Hermann Warm
Film Editor: Tonka Taldy
Original Music: Wolfgang Zeller
Written by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christen Jul from In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
Produced by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Julian West
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr is a tough row to hoe for horror fans, many of whom just...
Vampyr
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 437
1932 / Color / 1:19 Movietone Ap. / 73 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date October 3, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Julian West (Baron Nicolas De Gunzberg), Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard.
Cinematography: Rudolph Maté
Art Direction: Hermann Warm
Film Editor: Tonka Taldy
Original Music: Wolfgang Zeller
Written by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Christen Jul from In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
Produced by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Julian West
Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr is a tough row to hoe for horror fans, many of whom just...
- 9/19/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Emil and the Detectives is a popular novel that was filmed several times and once by Disney. The version you want to see, however, and which you very possibly can't see, is the one scripted by Billy (or "Billie") Wilder and directed by some bloke called Gerhardt Lamprecht. I don't know his other films, but he appears to be amazing.
Look!
Emil, visiting his granny in Berlin, is drugged by an evil criminal man on the train and robbed of the money he was delivering. The film has carefully set Emil up as a spirited young fellow, kind and thoughtful but also a little naughty. A prank involving a public statue has left him in fear of being pinched by the police, so when he's robbed he joins forces with a gang of kids to get his cash back.
The combination of location naturalism and studio artifice, which is at...
Look!
Emil, visiting his granny in Berlin, is drugged by an evil criminal man on the train and robbed of the money he was delivering. The film has carefully set Emil up as a spirited young fellow, kind and thoughtful but also a little naughty. A prank involving a public statue has left him in fear of being pinched by the police, so when he's robbed he joins forces with a gang of kids to get his cash back.
The combination of location naturalism and studio artifice, which is at...
- 5/9/2013
- by David Cairns
- MUBI
Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932
"I wanted to create a waking dream on screen and show that horror is not to be found in the things around us but in our own subconscious," said Danish film-maker Carl Theodor Dreyer, whose loose adaptation of two stories from Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla and The Room in the Dragon Volant) was initially conceived as a silent movie. Sound was added during production, but the film's trance-like images could stand on their own as a visual poem in which the action seems to take place on the cusp of dreams and reality.
Apart from German actress Sybille Schmitz, who plays the vampire's chief victim, and French actor Maurice Schutz, who plays her father, the cast was non-professional. Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg, who provided finance for the film, also took the leading role under the pseudonym Julian West. He plays a roving occult investigator called Allan Grey...
"I wanted to create a waking dream on screen and show that horror is not to be found in the things around us but in our own subconscious," said Danish film-maker Carl Theodor Dreyer, whose loose adaptation of two stories from Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla and The Room in the Dragon Volant) was initially conceived as a silent movie. Sound was added during production, but the film's trance-like images could stand on their own as a visual poem in which the action seems to take place on the cusp of dreams and reality.
Apart from German actress Sybille Schmitz, who plays the vampire's chief victim, and French actor Maurice Schutz, who plays her father, the cast was non-professional. Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg, who provided finance for the film, also took the leading role under the pseudonym Julian West. He plays a roving occult investigator called Allan Grey...
- 10/22/2010
- by Anne Billson
- The Guardian - Film News
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