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Jul. 22nd, 2008 06:00 pmpetzipellepingo.livejournal.comCritic’s Choice
New DVDs: ‘Vampyr’ and ‘The Mummy’
By DAVE KEHR
The first weeks of 1933 found two distinguished horror movies competing for attention. In New York, Karl Freund’s film “The Mummy,” starring Boris Karloff as an ancient Egyptian priest brought back to desiccated life, had its premiere at the Mayfair in Times Square, drawing “crowds that clicked past the box office,” according to a review in The New York Times.
In Paris, the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “Vampyr” was the opening attraction at a new cinema on the Boulevard Raspail. “It is a hallucinating film,” Herbert L. Matthews wrote in The Times, “which either held the spectators spellbound as in a long nightmare or else moved them to hysterical laughter.” ( Read more... )
New DVDs: ‘Vampyr’ and ‘The Mummy’
By DAVE KEHR
The first weeks of 1933 found two distinguished horror movies competing for attention. In New York, Karl Freund’s film “The Mummy,” starring Boris Karloff as an ancient Egyptian priest brought back to desiccated life, had its premiere at the Mayfair in Times Square, drawing “crowds that clicked past the box office,” according to a review in The New York Times.
In Paris, the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “Vampyr” was the opening attraction at a new cinema on the Boulevard Raspail. “It is a hallucinating film,” Herbert L. Matthews wrote in The Times, “which either held the spectators spellbound as in a long nightmare or else moved them to hysterical laughter.” ( Read more... )
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