Recommended Reading: I suggest taking a few moments away from your Dia de los Muertos celebration in order to read Gary D. Rhodes' brand new MEDIUM article entitled "The First Feature-Length Vampire Film":
It’s back, the original screen bloodsucker, out of its cinematic grave.
The first feature-length vampire film was not F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922). A newly-unearthed discovery makes clear that it was The Afterlife Wanderer, produced in Russia in 1915 and starring Olga Baclanova, who would go on to appear in Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932) [...].
The Afterlife Wanderer [was] released in Russia in 1915 as Zagrobnaia skitalitsa. Directed by Viacheslav Turzhanskii, the film’s publicity touted it as Russia’s “first occult drama.”
One review described The Afterlife Wanderer’s title character as a “vampire who sucks the blood of the living people at night.” Another called her a “vampire woman sucking blood from loved ones.” No doubt about it: she was a real vampire and a reel vampire.
In the film, Olga Baclanova plays Vera, a young lady who commits suicide. Her spirit “merges” with the soul and body of another woman, allowing Vera to remain on earth....
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