The Vourdalak

A genuinely eccentric spin on the vampire story, integrating uncanny puppet effects with its live-action storytelling, this unsettling, lovingly crafted—and often funny—period creep-show adapts “The Family of the Vourdalak,” a novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy written in 1839—that’s nearly 60 years before Bram Stoker’s Dracula.