Young traveller Allan Grey arrives in a remote castle and starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights (a man whose shadow has a life of its own, a mysterious scythe-bearing figure tolling a bell, a terrifying dream of his own burial). Things come to a head when one of the daughters of the lord of the castle succumbs to anaemia – or is it something more sinister?

Following on from his Blood of a Poet UK tour in the winter of 2010, Steven Severin returns to Brighton’s Duke of York cinema with his new score for VAMPYR, the third in his ongoing film accompaniment series – Music for Silents.

Live in person, Siouxsie and the Banshees founder Severin presents a mesmerising synthesis of sound and image, heightening appreciation of the surreal and enigmatic nature of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s VAMPYR (1932).

The unsettling tale of fear and obsession finds its aural counterpart in Severin’s suitably textured score, a synthesised, highly atmospheric soundscape drawing the viewer rhythmically into the oneiric imagery on screen.

This momentous event takes place on Sunday 29th January at 4pm and you can buy tickets from the Duke of York website.