The vampire is an elderly woman whose hold extends beyond her immediate victims. Many villagers, including the village doctor, are her minions in the film Vampyre (1932). On a late evening, Allan Gray arrives at an inn close to the village of Courtempierre. During the night, the death of the lord of a nearby manor occurs, his oldest daughter is bitten by a vampire, and his youngest daughter is kidnapped by a deranged doctor. Gray and an old servant track down the vampire, and the ghost of the manor lord exacts revenge on the doctor.
First Publisher Carl Theodor Dreyer Filmproduktion, Tobis-Filmkunst
Appearance List Vampyre (1932), based on elements from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly (1872), specifically “Carmilla” amd “The Room in the Dragon Volant”
Description The vampire is an elderly woman whose hold extends beyond her immediate victims. Many villagers, including the village doctor, are her minions in the film Vampyre (1932). On a late evening, Allan Gray arrives at an inn close to the village of Courtempierre. During the night, the death of the lord of a nearby manor occurs, his oldest daughter is bitten by a vampire, and his youngest daughter is kidnapped by a deranged doctor. Gray and an old servant track down the vampire, and the ghost of the manor lord exacts revenge on the doctor.
