在这部吸血鬼奇幻/恐怖片中,本片是德莱叶的第一部有声片，是恐怖片的经典，而且比现代恐怖片更具有心理震撼性。 影片以营造气氛著称，弥漫着梦幻和诡异。 故事讲述一个年轻人觉得自己遭到僵尸的包围，并幻想自己被安葬到坟墓里。 影片采用了很多新奇的拍摄角度，营造出独具一格的映像效果，又通过暗示手法展现邪恶的力量，取得了前所未有的成绩，将恐怖类型片提高到艺术片的高度。
Allan Gray arrives late in the evening to a secluded riverside inn in the hamlet of Courtempierre. An old man enters his room, puts a sealed parcel on the table, blurts out that some woman mustn't die, and disappears. Gray senses in this a call for help. He puts the parcel in his pocket, and goes out. Eerie shadows lead him into an old house, where he encounters a weird village doctor. The doctor receives a bottle of poison from a strange, old woman. Through the window of an old castle Grey recognizes the old man from the inn. A shadow shoots the man, who drops dead. Inside the house Grey finds his two daughters, Gisèle and Léone, and some servants. He opens the parcel, and finds an old book about vampires. Léone is seriously ill after being bitten by a vampire. Instead of helping her, the village doctor places the bottle of poison at her bedside table, and then abducts her sister Gisèle. An old servant starts reading the old book, and finds out that the vampire in Courtempierre is a dead woman called Marguerite Chopin. He goes to the cemetery, opens her grave and strikes a thick iron stick through her body. The curse is broken, Léone recovers, Grey liberates Giséle.
每个人都会遇见一口棺材，打开后发现自己躺在里面。迷惑,迷惑,再迷惑。“自杀的人没有来生，通过天堂的金色大门被永远关闭”。【270】《吸血鬼》——鲸鱼推荐872部好电影。可能要称作有声默片才合适。[Film Review] Vampyr (1932) 7.7/10。【关灯拆电影】拍完这部《吸血鬼》，导演自己疯了。影像凌厉的皮影戏。这是最让我掀桌叫好的realCult片。电影微评：吸血鬼。
