I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Vampyr. I’m pretty familiar with vampire movie concepts at this point, but most of the even most well known films of the concept really brought something to the table that gave them something extra – Nosferatu used the memories of the 1918 Influenza outbreak and leveraged that to bring a new direction to how the vampire is scary (and in a way that has aged incredibly well).
Vampyr doesn’t quite have that. It’s pretty standard – but without the captivating performances of something like Universal’s Dracula (which this is contemporaneous with), or leveraging off of topical fears.
What does make it interesting is a few moments within the film – stuff that the director did with shadows, along with a couple other dream sequences that gets rather nicely impressionist.
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