Sécurité are baffled by decapitated body of an inspector was found in swamp in Solange, but the head is not located; reporter Philippe Guerande is sent to investigate. His father had a childhood friend, Doctuer Nox, who lived in Castle Chesnaye, near Solange, who allows him to stay at his castle for the night, after being turned away by a local judge. Margaret Simpson, an American millionaire acquaintance of Nox's, has just agreed to acquire the castle. (Green tinting to her arrival, to represent green American currency?)
The murder has something to do with Les Vampires, a well known and highly feared ring of criminals operating in and around Paris. Philippe is threatened by Les Vampires shortly after his arrival, who snuck into his room at midnight through a passageway behind a painting on his wall. They also enter Simpson's room and steal from her; Philippe is incorrectly regarded a suspect. When he shows others the passageway behind the painting, in it someone has hidden the Inspector's head in a box, in an unexpectedly brutal twist (although actors' reactions to this shock are relatively lame. Someone finding a head in a box would react far stronger than what is shown) Immediately afterward, Simpson is killed, Dr. Nox disappears, and it looks like he was murdered by Les Vampires, who then assumed his identity and went into hiding.
Villains in black body stocking climbing over rooftops and down drainpipes on the sides of buildings in one long, unedited take is a good climactic scene, as well as cliffhanger, for this first chapter.
This 31 minutes-long short film has enough twists in its plot for a two hour movie.
The murder has something to do with Les Vampires, a well known and highly feared ring of criminals operating in and around Paris. Philippe is threatened by Les Vampires shortly after his arrival, who snuck into his room at midnight through a passageway behind a painting on his wall. They also enter Simpson's room and steal from her; Philippe is incorrectly regarded a suspect. When he shows others the passageway behind the painting, in it someone has hidden the Inspector's head in a box, in an unexpectedly brutal twist (although actors' reactions to this shock are relatively lame. Someone finding a head in a box would react far stronger than what is shown) Immediately afterward, Simpson is killed, Dr. Nox disappears, and it looks like he was murdered by Les Vampires, who then assumed his identity and went into hiding.
Villains in black body stocking climbing over rooftops and down drainpipes on the sides of buildings in one long, unedited take is a good climactic scene, as well as cliffhanger, for this first chapter.
This 31 minutes-long short film has enough twists in its plot for a two hour movie.
