The Vampire Dancer

The Vampire Dancer
Still from the film
DanishVampyrdanserinden
Directed byAugust Blom
Release date
  • March 4, 1912 (1912-03-04) (Denmark)
LanguageSilent

The Vampire Dancer (Danish: Vampyrdanserinden) is a 1912 Danish silent erotic vampire film directed by August Blom. The film was imported to the United States where it was banned in San Francisco for being salacious. The film marks probably the first depiction of a vampire biting a victim on screen.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.dfi.dk/en/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/film/vampyrdanserinden
  2. ↑ Rhodes, Gary D. (2023). Vampires in Silent Cinema. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 26–27. ISBN 9781399525763.
  3. ↑ Annwn Jones, David (2023). Vampires on the Silent Screen: Cinema’s First Age of Vampires 1897-1922. Springer Nature Switzerland. p. 48. ISBN 9783031386435.