Les Vampires

Les Vampires (French for "The vampires") is a 1915/1916 ten-part silent film serial. It was written and directed by Louis Feuillade and stars Musidora as "Irma Vep" a femme fatale whose name is a suspicious anagram of "vampire." The serial is set in Paris and follows the exploits of a gang of master criminals (known in the period as an "Apache gang") who call themselves "Les Vampires." Olivier Assayas 1996 movie Irma Vep, with a story line of a director's attempt to remake Les Vampires, is both an homage to the innovative nature of the original film and a critique of the then current state of French cinema. In November 1915, the walls of Paris were plastered with street posters that depicted three masked faces with a question mark as a...