We predict success for this serial, which Is well produced, and holds the Interest of the spectator through every inch o the film.

| Aug 5, 2020

A series of startling melodramatic pictures which should appeal strongly to the class of theatre patrons to whom mystery, murder, and Satanic schemes are meat and bread.

| Aug 5, 2020

Les Vampires is indeed one of the cinema's supreme masterpieces. That much is certain. It is more difficult to explain why.

| Feb 7, 2020

A few hours of it, however, was sufficient to convince this viewer that this French opposite number to The Perils of Pauline is the ultimate in cinema camp. It is a lurid, slow-moving, grotesque stretch-out of fantastic adventures.

| Apr 18, 2019

Even at nearly eight hours, the series has ingenuity to spare.

| Apr 18, 2019

Les Vampires, with thrill upon stunt upon criminal chicanery, is as modern as Rush Hour or The X Files.

| Apr 18, 2019

Seemingly taking the technology and style of the day, and pushing it to its absolute max, there are aesthetic touches within this series that feel as vibrant as anything today.

| Apr 16, 2019

It made criminal anarchy and terror into entertainment, which Feuillade made into art.

| Nov 27, 2018

Without buildup or the slightest hint of backstory, it unleashed a succession of perturbing images and inescapable situations, which neither had nor required any justification beyond their own intensity.

| Aug 17, 2018

There's an excitement to the action, the suspense, the gothic look and the performances that makes it far more gripping than you'd expect a 100-year-old, seven-hour film to be.

| Jan 2, 2016

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.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 22, 2008

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

| Oct 16, 2007

[Director Louis Feuillade] masterfully builds suspense over the film's massive, nearly 7-hour running time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 26, 2006

There's a hero (a resolute reporter), but all the interest goes to Irma and Co -- their heists, their feuds with a rival gang and with the agents of law and order, all conducted by means of slaughter... on a scale and insouciance appropriate to the time.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2005

Classic Crime serial, with superb storytelling.

| Jan 18, 2005

One of the great masterpieces of the cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 25, 2004

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

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 9, 2003

A seminal mood piece

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 12, 2002