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Writer: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer co-wrote Vampyr and The Passion of Joan of Arc alongside directing them, working from trial transcripts for the second, and made only fourteen features in five decades because financing was so difficult.

Vampyr (1932) film posterCarl Theodor Dreyer

Vampyr (1932)

Characters appear and vanish. Vampyr earns its 8 as the strangest, dreamiest, and most genuinely uncanny vampire film ever made, a 1932 work by the Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer that abandons plot and logic in favor of pure nightmare.

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