An Italian production built on a long-running comic book, Dampyr brings the half-human, half-vampire hunter Harlan Draka to the screen for the first time, dropping him into a war-torn Eastern European setting thick with monsters and old superstition.
What is Dampyr about?
Harlan Draka makes his living pretending to hunt vampires for cash, a con that works because nobody, least of all Harlan, believes the things are real. When he crosses paths with a mercenary company and a mysterious woman who insists his blood is not entirely human, the fraud collapses into fact. Forced to confront an ancient, monstrous warlord who commands real supernatural forces, Harlan has to accept an identity he spent his whole life denying. The film moves the source comic's mythology into a grounded, war-zone atmosphere, mixing practical dread with a growing sense that the line between soldier and predator was never as clear as Harlan assumed.
About the cast
Wade Briggs leads as Harlan Draka, working opposite Stuart Martin and Frida Gustavsson as the mercenaries who pull him into the conflict, with Sebastian Croft and David Morrissey rounding out a cast drawn largely from British and Nordic screen and stage work.
Context & significance
Dampyr adapts one of Italy's best-selling comic series, a title that has run for decades and built a dedicated readership well beyond its home country. Director Riccardo Chemello leans into the horror side of the property, favouring practical creature work and a muddy, wartime colour palette over glossy fantasy staging, which gives the film a rougher texture than most vampire-hunter adaptations aim for.
Watching Dampyr on Ktime
Dampyr streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, and the fantasy-horror hybrid is easy to follow even for viewers who have never touched the original comic. All that's needed is a free K-Time account; the platform's Farsi-language interface makes browsing and picking up where you left off simple for Persian-speaking audiences.