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

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

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

...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