The Black Vampire (PG) Borderlines Film Festival – Silent Film

A virtually unknown remake of M, Fritz Lang’s seminal 1931 thriller, El Vampiro Negro is a revisionist take on the tale by Argentine director Román Viñoly Barreto (The Beast Must Die).

Argentine beauty Olga Zubarry stars as a cabaret performer trying to protect her young daughter (Gogó) from a mysterious murderer while parrying the advances of the prosecutor pursuing the killer. Nathán Pinzón gives an impressive against-type performance as the disturbed monster hiding in plain sight. With its brooding cinematography, this variation on Fritz Lang’s classic is a proto-feminist reimagining of the tale, focusing on the lives of female characters ignored in the earlier iterations (Lang’s 1931 and Joseph Losey’s 1951 remake).

DIRECTOR: Román Viñoly Barreto
STARRING: Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nathán Pinzón, Nelly Panizza
ARGENTINA, 1953
SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
1 HOUR 30 MINUTES

With thanks to Flicker Alley, UCLA Film & Television Archive Fernando Martín Peña, Argentina Sono Film and the Film Noir Foundation.

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