Jonathan Harker, against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian Mountains to arrange a real estate transaction for Count Dracula, with tragic results.

A subtle, disturbing version of the vampire legend. A young man attempts to find and kill a vampire that has assumed the form of an old woman.

"With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyser's brilliance of achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result--concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris--is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror....

In Werner Herzogs Remake des Vampirklassikers von F.W. Murnau, Jonathan Harker erhält von Wismar den Auftrag, ins ferne Transsylvanien zu reisen. Dort interessiert sich Graf Dracula für den Kauf eines Hauses in der Hansestadt. Er ahnt nicht, welches Grauen ihn erwartet. In Herzog's hommage to F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, Jonathan Harker, against the wishes of his wife, departs on a journey over the Carpathian Mountains to Transylvania in...