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Posted By: Verbal Kint at 12:45pm, November 14, 2009
1994 was a great year for movies. J.O. Barr's beautiful comic, The Crow was transformed into the movie that redefined the comic book adaptation genre. Quintin Tarantino's 2nd and most legendary film, Pulp Fiction grossed $107,928,762. Kevin Smith hit the independent film scene by comical force with his first flick, Clerks. And One of my favorite novels of all time received it's film debut; Anne Rice's magnificent Interview With The Vampire.
The movie is focused on the life of vampire Louis (Brad Pitt), whom is telling his after-life story to a baffled reporter (Christian Slater). As far as novel adaptations go, this is one of the best movies ever made. The movie followed the book almost perfectly, of course leaving out a few choice sub-stories. However, the actors are what really breathed life into this film. Tom Cruise plays Louis's "sire", or the vampire who made him, Lestat. Kirsten Dunst made her film debut as a little girl turned vampire. Antonio Banderas made female audience members shudder as The Vampire Armand. The movie came together perfectly, leaving out only the elements in the novel that would not work in a movie. I have to give it the best score possible, considering that Anne Rice and her novel helped me grasp the concept of great storytelling from such a young age, and then continued to enthrall me in the form of a spectacular film. I would do anything to have seen a trilogy consisting of The Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the Damned. Unfortunately, however,in 2002, the butchery of the series took place in the form of a terrible film adaptation of Queen of the Damned, which tried to co-inside both novels into one shit-tastic excuse for a film. Hollywood banked, and I was left broken-hearted by the turn of events.
Interview With The Vampire is one of my all-time favorite movies, period. It's an instant classic, a great social film, and a cool relief from the damnation of vampire films by Twilight, the recent travesty that has tweens around the world regurgitating vampire nonsense. Hopefully Daybreakers will offer us some sense that the vampire has not yet seen its full ruination.
Posted By: horrorking95 at 8:05am, November 14, 2009
I actually really enjoyed this film. It had a nice storyline and fantastic visuals, my only complaint would be that there wasn't much story for the first 40mins or so all it was was Bradd Pitt and Tom Cruise going around killing people and it got a little bit boring after the fourth kill. But apart from that it was a good, strong film.
I enjoyed the film but it is a little to mellow dramatic for my liking as all Louis does for 200 years is pretty much wine. I have heard from a lot of people that the book is better, have not read it myself but it would make sense. I wish the movie didn;t take it self as seriously as it did but maybe that was Anne Rice's fault, just my opinion.
Interview with the Vampire - simply a classic. Antonio Banderas, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst playing up to their best. Story, visuals, music and cast are simply best.
One of my favourites and strongly recommended to be seen if one has not.
Posted By: CountOrlok at 12:58am, October 18, 2009
Amazing movie, great visuals.
Posted By: caseynight88 at 12:52pm, September 27, 2009
Great vampire flick. I saw it on the big screen, & this film truly takes you to another world. The atmosphere was tremendous. It had a certain dark creepiness throughout.The acting was terrific, perfect cast. One of the better horror flicks of the 90's. I highly recommend it!!!
I am sorry to disagree with so many people, but they took a wonderfully atmospheric Anne Rice book and turned it into a one dementional mess of bad acting and horrible make up. I was saddened when I walked out of the theater after seeing this movie...I had waited so long and personally felt ill. It had so much potential and it was pissed away.
I agree with the other reviews, this probably the best vampire movie ever made!It's engrossing and unsettling. Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst were especially good. Great film!
Perhaps, the best film ever made regarding the tale of vampires. This is not only a horror film but a truly epic drama intended on transporting it's viewers into the disposition of a suffering, guilt-ridden immortal. Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were a perfect casting choice. Tom Cruise is portrayed as truly an evil being, with no remorse nor humanity in his body. By the end of the film, though, we sympathize for him, as it becomes clear that he was simply trying to show Pitt the his way of companionship and vampiric survival. Not only is this film moving and invigorating to such a cliche'd subgenre, but it is very graphic and in it's content. This is the perfect combination in my opinion to reel in the audience. Beautifully done.
"The film may not be 100% plot-hole-less (but neither is the Matrix, and many brilliant films), and the concept of Vampires might seem a little far-fetched (read on), but if you bear with the unavoidable facets of a movie dealing with vampires, this film is quite astounding.
Unlike your average vampire movie, this film does not centre on fangs and blood and scary images. Its focus is not on horror at all.
And neither is it on action. There are scenes of high-octane vampiric attacks, but these are plot-climaxes and are well thought out. The main focus of the film, however, is upon character, and upon exploring what it would truly be like to be a vampire.
Furthermore, the film makes many efforts to be realistic: a vampire is not a hideous monster. The religious and Christian undertones are unavoidable, if not intended: Vampires are damned (by God?); they pass on their curse like a virus through their bloodstreams, both malignantly and benevolently. They are humans, with bodies that heal in seconds, who cannot age and cannot die of natural causes: humans with infinitely good immune systems, it might be said. And to live, they must drink blood. That is the curse upon them, and the blessing that comes with it are vampiric powers - some of them more readily available than others.
Louis, the main character played by Brad Pitt, was a depressed man, a man with no purpose left to his life; then he is set upon by a creature he didn't even think existed: a vampire, the vampire Lestat.
And in the eternal life that is born to him, Louis is even more troubled - and now he has eternity to wallow in. He has to live now with what he has become: to live on, he must kill and savagely drink the blood of his victims - Lestat long ago forgot moral consciousness, but being a vampire is torment for Louis.
The film delves deep into Louis' psyche, as he tries to deal with what he has been transformed into. As his relationship with his 'maker' Lestat builds and falls and rebuilds and remains in constant turmoil, he befriends other vampires, and learns more of the history of the secret race he has been born into. They gather in guilds, or walk alone, or walk among humans, disguised, feeding when they can.
The film powerfully deals with the theme of eternity, as the story of Louis' epic vampire life plays out, all told in first-person narrative, as he relates his story-so-far to an Interviewer.
Gripping from start to finish, as characters rise and fall and plots unwind, you will be enamoured at the vampire-world opened up to you, and by the end, you are left wondering what choice you would make, if given the one that Lestat never had..." -- Virgil Ierubino (Aquillyne), imdb.com
The way vampires should be portrayed. This is a great movie, i have never read the book but if it is better then it is off the charts. This movie is for all vampire lovers.
