Les Vampires. By Scott Tobias ... Irma Vep (an anagram for "vampire"), a devious villainess in black silk tights played by the fleshy, balletic Musidora. The partly scripted, ...

The French auteur uses the setting, a troubled production of a remake of Louis Feuillade’s 1915 Les Vampires, ... originally brought to life by the silent film star Musidora.

Irma Vep, whose name is an acronym for "vampire," was the face of the Vampires, a thoroughly amoral villainess. She was played by Musidora , star of the stage and political activist who wore the ...

When Louis Feuillade’s “Les Vampires” premiered in 1915, escalating the war of attrition between French film companies Pathe and Gaumont — in the middle of the actual armed conflict of ...

Once again, a production is seeking to remake Les Vampires, but in the 2020s, of course, television and not film is where such projects come to fruition.Here the superstar is Mira (Alicia Vikander ...