YMMV / Vampyr (1932)

• Complete Monster: Marguerite Chopin was a "monster in human form" when she was alive, who died so unrepentant of her sins that she was given a second life as a vampire through a Deal with the Devil. Chopin stalks the land gorging herself on the blood of innocents, enjoying the process of draining her victims for days until their constitutions are so weak that Chopin can drive them to suicide, damning their souls to hell as part of her pact with Satan. Having killed nearly a dozen people in a "plague" decades before, Chopin targets the family of Giséle and Léone, having their father and carriage driver murdered while Chopin tries to feed on the sisters to continue her spree.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Sybille Schmitz, who played Léone, was shunned by the German film community for maintaining a strong career during World War II, and fell into a suicidal depression marked by substance abuse. She moved in with a doctor, who allegedly kept her drugged on morphine while draining her of funds; when Schmitz committed suicide by overdosing on medication, her family accused the doctor of supplying her with the drugs and allowing her to die when she ran out of money and was of no more use to her lover. This makes Léone's near-suicide by poison as a result of a toxic doctor and manipulator much more painful to watch, especially since Schmitz's other notable roles afterwards involved her characters being successfully Driven to Suicide.
• Memetic Mutation: Léone laughing and then abruptly glaring at something offscreen became popular roughly eight decades after the film's release through use as a Tumblr reaction gif.

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