Les Vampires

Original title: Les vampires

1915
12
7h 1m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

5.6K

YOUR RATING

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

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 Les vampires: La bague qui tue (1915)

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Featured review

8/10

Subversive vampire thieves: they suck the blood out of sleeping bourgeois society!

This 1915 French mystery serial is fascinating. Its device of using gadgets (poison rings, poison fountain pens, cabinets with fake back panels, etc.) predates James Bond's by decades, and makes each new episode something to look forward to. The comely Irma Vep is one of the most mysterious and darkest screen heroines of all times. The filmmaker makes extensive use of real Parisian street locations, which seem always, oddly, to be drained of pedestrian life; watching "Les Vampires" is like getting into a time machine.

View "Les Vampires" first, then see "Irma Vep" (France, 1996) so you have a point of reference.