Les Vampires

Original title: Les vampires

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7.3/10

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An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

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An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

5.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

Trivia
Musidora was an acrobat who did all her own stunts for this film.

Goofs
In the 2012 Kino Lorber remastered DVD, the English subtitles have some errors. In episode 8, "The Lord of Thunder", Satanas intends to rescue Irma Vep from a prison ship bound for Algeria. Disguised as a priest, he passes her a coded message which rearranges into "Le navire sautera". Colloquially, this means,"The ship will blow up", but the subtitle translates this as "Jump overboard"; probably a good piece of advice anyway, as he does arrange to explode the ship. Later on in the same episode, Satanas plants a bomb in Guérande's apartment, and tells the paralyzed reporter that "the house will jump in five minutes"; same mistranslation.

Quotes
intertitle: [final intertitle of Episode 9] All's well that ends well, but we still haven't seen the last of the Vampires.

Connections
Edited from The Vampires: The Ring That Kills (1915)

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Featured review

8/10

Give up your search, otherwise bad luck awaits you!

Seeing a police drama that is a favorite of surrealists like Luis Bunuel ought to tell you that this isn't an episode of Law and order.

It take place in a Paris that is empty because of WWI. The dreamlike scenes add to the story of a reporter Phillipe Guerande (Edouard Mathe) who is looking to a criminal organization known as The Vampires (sorry, bloodsucking fans, it's not about Dracula or his minions.).

The crime syndicate could be considered a forerunner of the Mafia as it had it's tentacles in every level of society from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to nobility.

A classic silent film.

Louis Feuillade, who directed over 600 films is the film great grandfather of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch. Musidora, who played Irma Vep is probably the first screen vamp.