https://vo.rs/tags/early-sound-cinema/Latest from the Early Sound Cinema desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 05 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/vampyr-dreyers-dream-logic-of-dread/<p>Carl Theodor Dreyer made <em>The Passion of Joan of Arc</em> in 1928 — one of the towering achievements of silent cinema, a film composed almost entirely of faces — and then, with sound arriving to change everything, he made a horror picture financed by the young aristocrat who agreed to star in it. <em>Vampyr</em> (1932) is the strangest kind of follow-up: a director at the peak of his powers deliberately building a film that feels like something remembered wrong. It was a commercial disaster, misunderstood on release, and it has spent ninety years slowly being recognised as one of the few horror films that genuinely reproduces the texture of a bad dream.</p>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0000