"Vampyr" (1932)

An interesting watch.  Storyline is in the spirit of "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"--at least the start of the movie and the end of the book.  Music is great--especially the string bass--a mix of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and romantic-Berlioz--again in the spirit of, not similar in sounds to.  Almost entirely string sounds, though there was one place with brass horns, and one stringed ... banjo?  That doesn't fit for Germany--but that is the closest I could come up with.  Sounded like a banjo, looked the same shape except it seemed all wooden--like a round bodied ukelele.  Enough similarity to later vampire stuff (which of course, probably built on this), that you think you know what's coming; yet, different enough that you find yourself going, "What are they doing now?" [Yeah, I know that was in 2nd person.]  It's, of course, slower--doesn't have the fast pacing of current day, but it's not badly paced--and it's only an hour and 15 min. long.  Great early special effects--camera tricks and early basic editing.  It's a visual quality that today's CGI don't mimic; it's a nice quality of its own.  You "gotta" watch the shadows.  In German, English subtitles.  Though, I'm not so sure there wasn't at least one French scene.  (The original English version is lost.  So, this is a restored version.)  Not bad.  Almost "amusing", but even I caught myself holding my breath at one point (briefly), and keenly interested to see how things would resolve.