The Vampire Collective

Which aspects are present in Vampyr?

Sunlight and Stakes

These line up with several modern works like Blade Vampire Diaries, and Buffy, but skews a little from things like Twilight.

Truffaut on

Dreyer

‘The Whiteness of Carl Dreyer’ in ‘Francois Truffaut: The Films in My Life’

Then I think of the whiteness of Vampyr, though this time it is accompanied by sounds, the cries and horrible groans of the Doctor (Jean Hieromniko), whose gnarled shadow disappears into the flour bin in the impregnable mill that no one will approach to save him. In the same way that Dreyer’s camera is clever in Jeanne d’Arc, in Vampyr it frees itself and becomes a young man’s pen as it follows, darts ahead of, prophecies the vampire’s movements along the gray walls.

I only met Carl Dreyer three times, but it pleases me to write these few lines as I sit in the leather-and-wood chair that belonged to him during his working life and was given to me after his death. He was a small man, soft-spoken, terribly stubborn, who gave an impression of severity although he was truly sensitive and warm. His last public act was to gather the eight most important men involved in Danish cinema to write a letter protesting the dismissal of Henri Langlois from the Cinematheque Francaise.
Now he is dead; he has joined Griffith, Stroheim, Murnau, Eisen­stein, Lubitsch, the kings of the First generation of cinema, the genera­tion that mastered, first, silence, and then sound. We have much to learn from them, and much from Dreyer’s images of whiteness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvW2mKiLM-M

Dracula        vs.         Vampyr

Allan Grey enters a mysterious castle in Courtempierre. After sleeping, he awakens to an old man leaving a will on his table. He’s guided towards a castle. The old man is his murdered via a cryptic gunshot.

Jonathan Harker visits Count Dracula in the Transylvania. Dracula imprisons Harker, where he runs into three dracula sisters. Harker encounters a ship shortly after.