Running 440 minutes and split into ten unequal sections, Les Vampires is not quite a serial (it’s missing the cliffhangers we associate with that genre), and also not quite a series of films. However, it’s a wildly entertaining thriller which is as ambitious in its own way as D.W. Griffith’s films of the era – featuring elements that would crop up in films for decades to come. The lengthy tale follows reporter Phillipe Guerande (Edouard Mathe), who is one the trail of the criminal gang The Vampires, who are terrorizing the upper class with a string of robberies and murders.
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