Interview with the Vampire

1994 "Drink from me and live forever"
7.5| 2h3m| R| en| More Info
Released: 11 November 1994 Released
Producted By: Geffen Pictures
Country: United States of America
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A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

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adonis98-743-186503 It hasn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis lost his wife in childbirth. Both his wife and the infant died, and now he has lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire Interview with the Vampire benefits from excellent perfomances by Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and a young Kirsten Dunst but also terrific special effects for the time that the movie was released and it's entertaining enough despite some problems with the looks and story. (7.5/10)
Osmosis Iron A magnificently dark and mysterious adaptation of the novel by the same name. Tom Cruise pulls off an awesome Lestat and the rest of the cast is good aswell. Special thumbs up for very young Kirsten Dunst portraying a truly insidious and tragic child-vampire!
Dalbert Pringle For me - When it comes to the likes of vampire movies - I'd say that they can all easily be slotted into one of these 3 following categories - Good - Mediocre - Awful.And - With that said - I will give you just one guess as to which category I place "Interview".Without question - This dreadfully disappointing horror film's 2 biggest and 2 most damaging deficits were, of course, the total miscasting of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt into the story's all-important lead roles.It was especially the casting of Cruise (Mr. Zero-Charisma, himself) as the "Lestat" character that promptly brought "Interview's" potentially promising story down to an absolute dead halt.It seems that every time I see Cruise in any picture - I'm always left completely perplexed as to why the hell his vast popularity (and roles in big-budget productions) continues to prevail. 'Cause if there ever was a totally vacant, empty-headed, amateurish actor to successfully endure in Hollywood Heaven - Cruise would definitely be the one.
generationofswine On one hand, I always Hated the Anne Rice take on vampires...OK, sure, "Queen of the Damned" was an awesome and fun book that read like a comic book. It was really good but...but beautiful vampires...no.I applaud the Gay thing. It was written in 1976 well before even don't ask don't tell. It took brass to do that and shame on Neil Jordan for leaving it out. The book, I feel could possibly have done a lot for civil rights, normalize it in the mind of Americans and the movie, with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Antonio Banderas, well it could have been as hard hitting as Rage Against the Machine if they left it in.It took pure brass to write in that way in 1976 and feet of clay to leave it out of the movie. And after "The Crying Game?" Shame on the producers. That's probably more their fault than Jordan's.Still, beautiful sensitive vampires? No. They feed on blood, wouldn't they have every BBP on earth? Look when it was set? Louise and Lestate should have syphilis.Besides, they are evil, right? Vampires are evil and that is why Blade and Buffy and Harker hunt them and kill them. They aren't beautiful creatures that you pity and love. They are evil creatures that you kill.Anti-Vampire rant aside...the movie is beautiful. Neil Jordan knows how to make movies beautiful and he pulls out all the stops in "Interview with the Vampire." It is just a stunning movie to watch.And, though I really do hate how Anne Rice writes vampires...I read her anyway. Her stories are always sublime...with the exception of "Queen of the Damned" which was the hard rock version of her otherwise cool jazz stories.Her stories are set in New Orleans--mostly--sometimes Frisco, but they always seemed to remind me of the coldest Chicago winters. It reminds me of when I find myself tucking against the frigid wind as I walk down a street that would otherwise be booming with people and action.Her stories are visceral and sublime at the same time and Jordan captured that well. Even people like me who hate how she writes vampires still read her because of how she writes.The story is as jaw dropping as Jordan's direction.My only lament is that it could have been a civil rights springboard and they passed on that chance to make the world a better place through cinema.