Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural—particularly vampires—goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire…

In 1932, legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc) applied his gift for arresting visuals and heavy atmosphere to the horror genre. The result is one of cinema’s great nightmarish meditations on death: a gloomy, ecstatic journey through the darkness and toward the light.