November 07, 2004

Fantomas! "Fantomas." "What did you say?" "I said: Fantomas." "And what does that mean?" "Nothing... And everything!" "But what is it?" "Nobody... And yet, it is somebody!" "And what does that somebody do?" "Spreads terror!"
posted by Wolof 20 years ago
  • So -- seems the French took up where Raffles, E. W. Hornung's amateur cracksman, left off. Great link, Wolof<!
  • I've never read the comics but I certainly do remember being so scared when i was watching the movies on TV (the ones with Jean Marais). Luckily, Louis de Funès was there to balance that. Thanks for the memory, Wolof.
  • Very cool art. I can see what they mean by his being the arch-villan prototype.
  • I remember being incredibly frustrated that in every Fantomas movie, he escapes in the end. Also, I was recently creeped out by the ending of a Fantomas/de Funès flick: They behead a man (using a guillotine) but it turns out IT'S NOT FANTOMAS (cue sinister music). Beheadings are creepy.