This exquisite TV series strongly impressed me when I was 13 yrs.,as a TV series of great beauty, immensely spectacular ,very bizarre and suspenseful, and strikingly well made. We used to discuss the TV programs at school, and I remember also that no one else liked this TV showon the contrary, some seemed to hate it and were very dissatisfied with it. Indeed, FANTOMAS was remarkably original. The uncanny atmosphere, the strange characters, the air of menace and violence and cruelty made it a completely original thing.
The TV movie looked very compact and well conceived and exquisitely crafteda great showmanship ,an astonishing flair for the suspenseful, fastpaced, thrilling showsomething never seen before. At that time, I was in a phase when I was reading "Frankenstein", Leroux, Verne, Campbell, Leblanc and a thousand other things, and satiric magazines, SciFi magazines, French comic books, and watching the Willis TV series, and collecting BATMAN cards. As a reader, bibliophile, _cinephile (the IMDb machine does not yet admit this word!), collector and boy, it was a great time, big fun. I was avidly taking note of a lot of new stuff. It was, concomitantlyFANTOMAS,FRANKENSTEIN,BATMAN, the great classic SciFi, the comics, Verne, Leroux and Leblanc, Bruce Willis and 'Maddie', Sylvia Kristel's MATA HARI, I was reading ceaselessly ,with a feverish delight ,and picking licentious paragraphs from the literary classics .
I remember Kristina Van Eyck in her femme fatal memorable role ....
The TV movie looked very compact and well conceived and exquisitely crafteda great showmanship ,an astonishing flair for the suspenseful, fastpaced, thrilling showsomething never seen before. At that time, I was in a phase when I was reading "Frankenstein", Leroux, Verne, Campbell, Leblanc and a thousand other things, and satiric magazines, SciFi magazines, French comic books, and watching the Willis TV series, and collecting BATMAN cards. As a reader, bibliophile, _cinephile (the IMDb machine does not yet admit this word!), collector and boy, it was a great time, big fun. I was avidly taking note of a lot of new stuff. It was, concomitantlyFANTOMAS,FRANKENSTEIN,BATMAN, the great classic SciFi, the comics, Verne, Leroux and Leblanc, Bruce Willis and 'Maddie', Sylvia Kristel's MATA HARI, I was reading ceaselessly ,with a feverish delight ,and picking licentious paragraphs from the literary classics .
I remember Kristina Van Eyck in her femme fatal memorable role ....