Fantômas

On the data. Two completely different Fantômas, and putting them on the same list is the point of this page. In the novels and in Louis Feuillade's 1913 serial, Fantômas is a genuinely frightening figure: an amoral killer who commits atrocities and escapes at the end of almost every story. Feuillade's serial is a straight crime film and one of the foundations of the whole thriller genre. In the 1964 to 1967 trilogy he is a man in a blue rubber mask being chased by Louis de Funes doing a comic tantrum, with gadgets and car chases, made in response to the James Bond films. Jean Marais plays both the villain and the journalist hero, which confuses plot summaries. Someone who comes to one expecting the other will be badly misled, which is why both are here with the difference spelled out. There is no continuity anywhere in this. The novels themselves barely have one: the authors wrote to a monthly deadline and killed and revived characters freely, and the thirty second novel was called The End of Fantomas and then undone twelve years later when Allain restarted the series on his own. Forty three novels exist in total, thirty two written jointly between 1911 and 1913 and eleven by Allain alone between 1925 and 1963. The first five are listed here because they are what the serial adapts. The rest is a library rather than a list, and most have never appeared in English. The comedy trilogy ends without resolving itself. A fourth film set in Moscow was written and abandoned because its two stars had fallen out. A new French film with Guillaume Canet is announced for February 2027 and has not been released, so it is not listed here yet.

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