Anne Rice adapts her own bestselling novel for director Neil Jordan’s big budget, big screen spectacle of blood-red horror and spellbindingly tragic romance. Lushly designed and impeccably executed, Interview with the Vampire is an atmospheric and homoerotic chiller that tells the tale of the doom of immortality. Love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger course through the story of 200-year-old vampire Louis (Brad Pitt), the creature who turned him, Lestat (Tom Cruise), and their surrogate daughter, Claudia (Kirsten Dunst), a mature being eternally trapped in a child’s body.
“Interview with the Vampire promises a constantly surprising vampire story, and it keeps that promise.” – Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“Director Neil Jordan has always had an affinity for underdogs, and he has created a film that can be viewed as empathetic to any oppressed group. Homosexuals may claim it as their emotional story” – Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
