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Les Vampires (1915)

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Reviews Counted:13

Fresh:13

Rotten:0

Average Rating:8.8/10

Runtime: 7 hrs

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: Vampish villainess Irma Vep, along with her jewel-filching gang, terrorizes Paris in this complete collection of the intrigue-laden French silent serials. Includes a restored score.

Starring: Musidora, Marcel Levesque, Edouard Mathe, Jean Ayme

Starring: Musidora, Marcel Levesque, Edouard Mathe, Jean Ayme

Director: Louis Feuillade

Director: Louis Feuillade

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May 16, 2000

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  • A legendary seven-hour silent crime serial in ten episodes. "Les Vampires" follows the exploits of a brazen and resourceful band of arch-criminals who rob the rich, transfix the elite of France, and almost elude the obsessive pursuit of crusading journalist Phillipe Guerande and his sidekick Mazamette. A series of Grand Vampires with names such as Satanas and Venomous share the irresistible Irma Vep (an anagram of "vampire") as strategist and mistress. Sometimes seductively garbed in a black body stocking and a black hood, sometimes disguised as a boy or hidden in plain view as a maid, stenographer or bourgeois spinster, feared and desired by both her cohorts and stalkers, Irma is perhaps the first liberated screen woman. Shot off-the-cuff by writer-director Louis Feuillade in the streets and interiors of 1915 Paris, "Les Vampires" was banned by the Paris police for glorifying crime. A smash hit when finally released, and for fifty years celebrated as a masterpiece of French cinema, "Les Vampires" is complete and restored on one two-sided disc, with English titles and inserts, tints and an evocative orchestral score.
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    A cracking good story...in those wonderful moments where Musidora's kohl-marked face stares right out of the screen and into your soul, it's terribly perfect.

    Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
    07/22/08
    Tim Brayton
    Tim Brayton
    Antagony & Ecstasy

    The elaborate production, written and directed by Louis Feuillade, is an epic modern crime thriller, the precursor to many of today's multi-million dollar action films.

    Full Review Source: DVDLaser | comment Comment
    03/04/08
    Douglas Pratt
    Douglas Pratt
    DVDLaser

    Louis Feuillade's extraordinary ten-part silent serial of 1916, running just under eight hours, is one of the supreme delights of film.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    10/16/07
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Jonathan Rosenbaum
    Chicago Reader
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    [Director Louis Feuillade] masterfully builds suspense over the film's massive, nearly 7-hour running time.

    Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
    05/26/06
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Combustible Celluloid

    It's possible to overstate the extent to which all this is a bunch of fun: if shown, as it often is, in one great unnatural marathon, it can be sheer torture.

    Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
    01/26/06
    Time Out

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    06/26/05
    Emanuel Levy
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    No review available.

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    02/10/05
    Thomas Delapa
    Thomas Delapa
    Boulder Weekly

    Classic Crime serial, with superb storytelling.

    Full Review Source: Classic Film and Television | comment Comment
    01/18/05
    Michael E. Grost
    Michael E. Grost
    Classic Film and Television

    One of the great masterpieces of the cinema.

    Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | comment Comment
    07/25/04
    Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
    Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
    Goatdog's Movies

    ...this magical mystery tour through a deadly Parisian landscape is, like A Trip to the Moon, a towering and radical work of narrative fiction.

    Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
    05/09/03
    Ed Gonzalez
    Ed Gonzalez
    Slant Magazine

    A seminal mood piece

    Full Review Source: All Movie Guide | comment Comment
    04/12/02
    Dan Jardine
    Dan Jardine
    All Movie Guide

    Blows almost any modern action film out of the water.

    Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
    03/05/02
    Jeremy Heilman
    Jeremy Heilman
    MovieMartyr.com

    Les Vampires is one of France's great classic contributions to the world of popular cinema...

    Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Dennis Schwartz
    Dennis Schwartz
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