Vampyr

you're selling me a little bit i might try to watch the invisible man when i get done editing this podcast Was it the Dreyer version?

Yeah, the Dreyer version of Vampyr from around the same time.

Carl Dreyer.

Not a thing that you put your clothes in.

He was born in Krakow, while it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and he went to university in Budapest.

He'd worked with Dreyer again on the extremely haunting, largely silent film Vampyr.

He'd then moved to Hollywood, working with directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Alexander Korda and Ernst Lubitsch.

Mark Cousins describes how in The Passion of Joan of Arc, the walls of the set were painted pink to remove the glare, ensuring that Falconetti's extraordinary performance was captured to fullest effect.

so many things.

Pam Cutt is doing Vampyr, the 1932 Vampyr with a live score.

That's

good.

Welcome to episode 64 of the Horror Double Bill, the podcast where each week we pair two movies to create something greater than the sum of their parts.

I'm Craig Johnson, and this week we are returning to the world of sapphic bloodsuckers, with two films about female vampires that were, to some extent or another, inspired by the novella Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

First up, we have Dracula's Daughter from 1936.

And it certainly didn't convince his blood-spattered bride, co-star Simon Androux.

When asked about it for an interview on the Blu-ray release of the film, Androux, who comes across as incredibly charming and very funny, politely inquires...

If Salmiere were an undercover hitman, why was he relegated to appearing in multiple low-budget movies, and even on one occasion attempted a career in porn in the UK? Being blunt, Selmier's performance in this film is barely adequate to pass for a real human being, and so it seems highly unlikely that he was able to pose undercover as anything other than perhaps a wardrobe or a hefty plank of wood.

His frequent appearances through the film are plagued by stiff mannerisms and very odd reactions.

At one point, when he spies on Susan and Carmilla engaged in a ghastly and sexual ritual in the woods, he looks less appalled and more like a man who suddenly remembered that he left the iron on at home.

Yeah, no, it's been a while.

It has been since Vampyr, which was spine number 437.

What number are we on now? Over half the podcast.

Adam.

It is a silent film.

Only our second dryer silent film.

Vampyr was a sound film, though it had very limited sound.

I always forget it was a sound film.