{"id":36568,"date":"2024-08-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36568"},"modified":"2024-08-27T19:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T23:42:28","slug":"vampyr-1932-directed-by-carl-theodor-dreyer-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36568","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vampyr&#8221; (1932) directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z083024zview_vampyr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"621\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vampyr (1932)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Carl Theodor Dreyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Christen Jul, Carl Theodor Dreyer;\u00a0 <\/strong>based on the story <em>In a Glass Darkly<\/em> by<strong> Sheridan Le Fanu<\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Jan Hieronimko, Sybille Schmitz<\/strong> and <strong>Henriette Gerard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Allan Gray, a drifter walking through the countryside takes a room at an inn.\u00a0 Late that night he is awakened from his sleep by a stranger in his room.\u00a0 The man leaves a note, &#8220;To Be Opened Upon My Death&#8221; and quickly leaves.\u00a0 Gray attempts to follow the man and arrives at a castle.\u00a0 Looking in he sees an old woman and shadows of people although no one else is seen.\u00a0 The shadows appear to move on their own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As Gray investigates further he will find the old man shortly before the gent is murdered.\u00a0 Gray opens the note which speaks of demons called vampyrs.\u00a0 Gray believes that the old man&#8217;s young daughter is becoming a vampyr.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Can she be saved?\u00a0 Must she be destroyed?\u00a0 Gray must decide.\u00a0 The clock is ticking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many consider <em>Vampyr<\/em> a classic.\u00a0 For whatever reason it didn&#8217;t resonate with me.\u00a0 Your mileage, as always, may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although it was created when sound films had arrived, it still presents much information in title cards used in silent films.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the characters in this film were not played by professional actors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Vampyr (1932)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z083024zview_vampyr2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vampyr (1932) Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer Screenplay:\u00a0 Christen Jul, Carl Theodor Dreyer;\u00a0 based on the story In a Glass Darkly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36569,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568\/revisions\/36569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}