Paris. Young girls are found dead, drained from their blood. A journalist investigates these murders while the beautiful Gisele, from a noble family, tries to seduce him.Paris. Young girls are found dead, drained from their blood. A journalist investigates these murders while the beautiful Gisele, from a noble family, tries to seduce him.Paris. Young girls are found dead, drained from their blood. A journalist investigates these murders while the beautiful Gisele, from a noble family, tries to seduce him.
Carlo D'Angelo
- L'ispettore Chantal
- (as Carlo d'Angelo)
Angelo Galassi
- Ronald Fontaine
- (as Angiolo Galassi)
Antoine Balpêtré
- Professor Julien du Grand
- (as Antoine Balpetré de la Comédie Française)
Armando Annuale
- Un uomo anziano al funerale
- (uncredited)
Larry Boston
- Unknown Role
- (uncredited)
Aristide Catoni
- Porter
- (uncredited)
Riccardo Freda
- Il dottore
- (uncredited)
Bert Goldstein
- Maitre D'
- (uncredited)
Ronny Holiday
- Nora
- (uncredited)
Joy Holliday
- Anita
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was the first Italian made horror film of the sound era.
- Crazy creditsEnglish dubbed version 'The Devil's Commandment' is credited to director Riccardo Freda's pseudonym Robert Hampton.
- Alternate versionsOriginal Italian version is 82-minutes long. US distributor re-edited the film, inserting new footage starring Al Lewis and Ronny & Joy Holliday, shortened it to 70 minutes and released it as "Devil's Commandment". The differences are as follows:
- Alternate opening scene in which Joseph (played by a body double) stalks a women to her apartment, kills her in the bathtub, and has the body disposed of.
- Several dialogue-heavy scenes are cut or trimmed.
- The scene where Lantin brings the police back to the apartment he tailed Joseph back to is cut.
- The scene where the blind beggar is questioned by the police, and the subsequent house raid, are cut.
- A newly-shot sequence where a woman goes to a nightclub and is subsequently killed by Joseph.
- A newly-shot sequence where one of Dr. Du Grand's assistants (Lewis) forces himself on Lorette (played by a body double).
- Added insert shots of rats crawling toward Lorette.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre (2000)
Featured review
Decent
Vampiri, I (1956)
** (out of 4)
Riccardo Freda directed horror film about the police investigation into the discovery of several dead women whose bodies have been drained of blood. Today this film is best remembered as being the first Italian horror film of the sound era as well as being the first film directed by Mario Bava who took the chair after Freda walked away from the project. As with many other Gothic horror films, this one looks nice but while trying to create atmosphere, the director(S) seemed to have forgotten the story, which isn't too interesting. Like many others, the film also features way too much talk, which gets tiresome after a while. The cinematography by Bava is certainly the highlight. Paul Muller has a small role.
** (out of 4)
Riccardo Freda directed horror film about the police investigation into the discovery of several dead women whose bodies have been drained of blood. Today this film is best remembered as being the first Italian horror film of the sound era as well as being the first film directed by Mario Bava who took the chair after Freda walked away from the project. As with many other Gothic horror films, this one looks nice but while trying to create atmosphere, the director(S) seemed to have forgotten the story, which isn't too interesting. Like many others, the film also features way too much talk, which gets tiresome after a while. The cinematography by Bava is certainly the highlight. Paul Muller has a small role.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Feb 28, 2008
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- Also known as
- The Vampires
- Filming locations
- Titanus Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy(Studio, as Titanus - Appia)
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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