Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Genre: Drama / Horror
Duration: 123 minuten
Alternative title: Interview with the Vampire
Country:
United States
Directed by: Neil Jordan
Stars: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst
IMDb score:
7,5 (379.018)
Releasedate: 11 November 1994
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles plot
"Drink from me and live forever"
The film tells the life story of Louis de Pointe du Lac (Pitt). In 1791, after losing his wife, he no longer wanted to live. He is bitten by the vampire Lestat (Cruise), who gives him the choice to continue living as a vampire, or to die a slow death. Louis chooses to become a vampire and learns from Lestat what it's like to live as a vampire. The years go by and Louis chooses to live on the blood of animals because he doesn't want to kill innocents. He is also less and less pleased with the company of Lestat. In Paris, he meets a group of vampires who live very different lives and Louis finds a way to make everything different.
Actors and actresses
Louis de Pointe du Lac
Lestat de Lioncourt
Claudia
Armand
Daniel Malloy
Santiago
Yvette
Madeleine
Estelle
New Orleans Whore
Reviews & comments
Woland
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- 4837 messages
- 3880 votes
Interview with the Vampire is an anti-Nosferatu vampire film. Here no disfigured, bald, pale ghost terrorizing the population by bloodsucking; no, here are the vampires, well-dressed, vain dandies, sensually sucking their equally well-dressed, well-bombed victims dry. Most of the film is a story-within-the-story, in which the title vampire Louis (Brad Pitt) lays out his history. And that's a pretty nice story. How he himself became a vampire about two hundred years ago at the hands of Lestat (Tom Cruise), his adventures in (mainly) Louisiana around 1800 and the Paris of, well, sometime later in the 19th century - but also the moral problems that Louis has with his vampirism, unlike Lestat. The vampire girl Claudia was also a nice addition. It's Hollywood vampires, but in an entertaining way, if a little long - but this rewatch certainly didn't disappoint me.
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De filosoof
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- 2570 messages
- 1760 votes
I think the film wants to be horror - like the average Dracula film - but chooses a premise that they would have thought to be the original but which actually makes the film more comedy than horror: the vampire is made human so that the vampire in question is feels guilty to have to kill people, forms an alternative family with another male vampire and vampire girl (in any case, the film hints at gay sex all the time), the girl has puberty tricks and after quarrels is made up and cuddled, etc. also want to be funny. The film is so stuck between horror and comedy and fails for both genres. The film does have a nice, gothic atmosphere and is at times quite entertaining.
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Brabants
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- 2910 messages
- 2162 votes
Interview with the Vampire is a long film that never really gets boring. The story takes you into the dark and lonely existence of the vampires. It entertained me immensely.
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