YMMV / A Fool There Was

• Anvilicious: The film, like most silent melodramas, is far from subtle in message or execution. The Vampire is first shown on-screen less than a minute in, sniffing a rose which instantly turns gray and rots, then gleefully crushing the head to powder; no points for guessing how she'll treat Schuyler when he falls into her clutches.
• Complete Monster: "The Vampire" is a malicious seductress who preys on men, using her powers of persuasion and manipulation to turn them into her beguiled puppets. The Vampire wrings the men in her thrall dry of all money and their very lives, isolating them away from their loved ones until they are left with nothing but despair, at which point the Vampire moves on and finds another victim. Many of the men she has ruined have fallen into homeless poverty or life imprisonment, and when one of her latest slaves kills himself in front of her out of depression, the Vampire deliberately arranges her furniture over the spot he died to bask in his death. The Vampire ruins the life of protagonist John Schuyler as she has so many other men, even going out of her way to drive the man's beloved wife and daughter out of his life just to make him suffer more when the Vampire is done with him.
• Memetic Mutation: A premiere Older Than Television example. In addition to the film codifying the screen archetype of the vamp, "kiss me, my fool" would forever become associated with Bara, and turned up as a Stock Phrase for decades afterward whenever a more comedic work parodied overwrought vampy dialogue (though it would usually be written as "kiss me, YOU fool").