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Audience Member The best romance movie ever made! With the best movie character ever portrayed: Theda Bara as "The Vampire"! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member ok silent vehicle for theda bara Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z428/TheImmortalReviewer/vlcsnap-2011-08-11-10h39m19s24.png" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Considered to be the first "vampire" flick, it doesn't have any fangs or even blood. At the time a vamp was considered as slang for a sexually predatory woman. What was consider to be a first was Theda Bara who would be cinema's very first femme fatale. It would be in this role that would launch her career. She would go on to star in 40 films between 1914 and 1926. Sadly, only a few of those films would survive from a fire at Fox's film storage. <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z428/TheImmortalReviewer/vlcsnap-2011-08-11-10h40m24s173.png" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> John Schuyler and his family and friends are happy. One of the big highlights of the film is a very impressively shot 7 minute opening sequence where in the end of it the family watches the sunset on their happiness before introducing us to 'The Vamp'. <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z428/TheImmortalReviewer/vlcsnap-2011-08-11-10h43m33s23.png" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> She doesn't bite, but what she does is suck the life out every man she meets until they have very little or die. Their first encounter is on a boat as John makes his way to England. He's a special diplomatic representative and his name in the paper stating this sends 'The Vamp' to seek him out. It's on the boat where it all begins. <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z428/TheImmortalReviewer/vlcsnap-2011-08-11-10h41m12s116.png" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Months go by as John is cast under a spell by the wicked 'Vamp'. He forgets his wife, daughter and friends. They worry about him and know that it's this woman who is destroying him. <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z428/TheImmortalReviewer/vlcsnap-2011-08-11-10h44m01s83.png" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a> Theda's role is a particular venomous portrait of a wicked seductress who treats men like insects in her web of lies and deceit. The story is a tragic one as well as a haunting one at how much a man would go through when entranced by a beautiful woman. Using her beauty to get what she wants, 'The Vamp' uses up John for mere pleasure. By the end she's laughing over his corpse as she sprinkles rose petals on him. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member It's your basic "evil woman seduces and destroys a weak man, despite the efforts of his valiant friends and long suffering wife." However, Theda Bara plays her defining vamp role to perfection. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Obviously it's an early silent and possesses a continuity that adheres to that so it does retain a certain disorientation. But if watch it through you get a strange and interesting story. Theda Bera alone, though, has a really undeniable presence and pull. Plus you got a groundbreaking story for the time about a "Vamp" that although doesn't suck out a man's blood, but sucks out his life for seemingly no gain other than the pleasure of causing his destruction. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Theda Bara is the best! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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