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.
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01/26/06
Les Vampires (1915)
100 %
Reviews Counted: 13 Fresh: 13 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.8/10
Runtime: 7 hrs
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. [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Musidora, Marcel Levesque, Edouard Mathe, Jean Ayme
Director: Louis Feuillade
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1 - 13 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
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.
07/22/08
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.
03/04/08
Louis Feuillade's extraordinary ten-part silent serial of 1916, running just under eight hours, is one of the supreme delights of film.
10/16/07
[Director Louis Feuillade] masterfully builds suspense over the film's massive, nearly 7-hour running time.
05/26/06
...this magical mystery tour through a deadly Parisian landscape is, like A Trip to the Moon, a towering and radical work of narrative fiction.
05/09/03
Les Vampires is one of France's great classic contributions to the world of popular cinema...
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