Women are lassoed as they peer out of windows and pulled into the hands of kidnappers below.
Cannons roll out of secret panels and fire upon buildings and ships.
Rival criminal gangs steal each others loot. Black-suited villains run across roofs and climb the sides of buildings. Les Vampires provides one outrageous plot twist after another as it moves like a whirlwind through the streets of Paris and the French countryside. Musidora as Irma Vep in Les Vampires. Whereas American serials frequently degenerate into a repetitive series of struggles over a central what's-it, where the same sets and situations get recycled ad infinitum , Les Vampires provides us with a constantly changing canvas.