
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Leave your thoughts about The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris.
| Slant MagazineEd Gonzalez...this magical mystery tour through a deadly Parisian landscape is, like A Trip to the Moon, a towering and radical work of narrative fiction. |
| DVDLaserDouglas PrattThe 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. |
| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostClassic Crime serial, with superb storytelling. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanBlows almost any modern action film out of the water. |
| The Young FolksMatt RiceThere'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. |
| n+1A.S. HamrahIt made criminal anarchy and terror into entertainment, which Feuillade made into art. |
| The New York Review of BooksGeoffrey O'BrienEvery shot is not just a composition but an event. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzLes Vampires is one of France's great classic contributions to the world of popular cinema... |
| User Reviewsteven man enormously entertaining 10 part french crime serial (silent), staring Musidora as Imra Vep, perhaps the sexiest femme fatale in cinema to date. |
| User Reviewa zOne of the earliest classics of cinema (much, much better than Birth of a Nation) -- very slow moving, but fantastic, comic, morbid, paranoid, and atmospheric. I strongly recommend it. |