“This is the fantasized experience of young Allan Gray, who immersed himself in studies of Satanism and Vampyre superstition. His in-depth examination of the delusional ideas of ages past turned him into a dreamer and visionary who lost his grasp of the distinction between reality and the supernatural ...” While staying the night in a remote guesthouse, he bears witness to phenomena of the most curious nature, both at the inn and in a nearby castle, culminating in his own funeral ... Carl Theodor Dreyer's first sound film experiments with optical illusions and restrained hints at unseizable threats. By concentrating on an “undefined imagination of the supernatural", Dreyer created images of unforgettable poignancy. “A triumph of visual beauty. A hundredfold curves of grey and white, a web of spectral mist, wherein reality and dreams become indistinguishable from one another.” (The Austrian Film Museum)