13 Facts About Vampyr

Vampyr was funded by Nicolas de Gunzburg who starred in the film under the name of Julian West among a mostly non-professional cast.

Vampyr was challenging for Dreyer to make as it was his first sound film and was required to be recorded in three languages.

Vampyr had a delayed release in Germany and opened to a generally negative reception from audiences and critics.

Vampyr is based on elements from J Sheridan Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly, a collection of five stories first published in 1872.

Dreyer draws from two of the stories for Vampyr, one being Carmilla, a lesbian vampire story and the other being The Room in the Dragon Volant about a live burial.

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Many crew members of Vampyr had worked with Dreyer on his previous film The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Dreyer originally wanted Vampyr to be a silent film, as it uses many elements of the silent era such as title cards to explain the story.

The Paris premiere was in September 1932 where Vampyr was the opening attraction of a new cinema on the Boulevard Raspail.

Reporter Herbert Matthews of The New York Times wrote that Vampyr was "a hallucinating film", that "either held the spectators spellbound as in a long nightmare or else moved them to hysterical laughter".

Vampyr has been released with imperfect image and sound as the original German and French sound and film negatives are lost.

Vampyr was released in the United States under the titles of The Vampire, and Castle of Doom and in the United Kingdom under the title of The Strange Adventures of David Gray.

Vampyr was originally released on DVD on 13 May 1998 by Image Entertainment which ran at an abridged 72-minute running time.

Image's release of Vampyr is a straight port of the Laserdisc that film restorer David Shepard produced in 1991.