lchadbou-326-26592 Review of Fantômas contre Fantômas

Fantômas contre Fantômas (1949)

Not Bad Update of the classic Feuillade character

[6/10 · 11 July 2018]

Fantomas Contre Fantomas is like a French version of a Republic serial if you can imagine such a thing.Irene is being operated on by a mysterious doctor and later we see her operating,like a robot,at the beck and call of the mysterious Fantomas.His plan is to extort money from the post WW II black market in France,so the criminals decide to help InspectorJuve fight Fantomas who is hurting their business. Fantomas sets up headquarters in a former Gestapo prison.It is such references to the Nazi occupation that the French had just suffered through,and a certain shadowy texture,that carry conviction when the preposterous plot (which involves dead people coming back to life,and dummies being set loose to kill) does not.