Interview With The Vampire (DVD)

...epic and missed opportunity. Interview with the vampire is the quite literal interpretation of the title. Based on the biopic tale of Louis de Pointe du Lac (Brad Pitt), Daniel Malloy (Christian Slater)is an opportunist writer listening to the seemingly mad ramblings of a deranged man. Initially with his back to an attic window, Louis recounts a tale of death and destruction spanning four centuries and traversing several continents to the tape recordings ...
...craving a big finish. Interview with the vampire is an admirable attempt to re-create a wonderful book but maybe the high standard demanded of it's re-telling was simply beyond the movie's creators. In this, it is an opportunity spurned but as a standalone experience the movie is well worth watching. This is a graphic movie made in the spirit of its author and so only suitable for those happy to take on the most base of depiction's of eternally ...

Marandina 11.07.2003 (04.08.2003) · Read full review
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The novel Interview with a Vampire was begging to be made into a film. Ok, maybe Anne Rice didn’t intentionally write it for this purpose, but one day it was going to happen – it was too much of a temptation to resist. And the result? Surprisingly good – for Hollywood, that is. With a screenplay written by Rice herself; co-produced by David Geffen; directed by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) and with countless young virile ‘luvvies’ ...
...tells of his life. His interview is with Louis the vampire… 200 years ago Louis is a landowner in New Orleans. After the death of his wife in childbirth, he struggles to cope with life but hoping for death. He is then befriended by the vampire, Lestat (Tom Cruise), and is given the chance of his human death and immortality as a vampire. Not understanding its implications he agrees. What follows is Louis’s struggle to accept his new ...

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...by Anne Rice in 1975, Interview With The Vampire, the first of many books that she calls the Vampire Chronicles. She also wrote the screenplay for the film which was released through Warner Brothers in 1994. Neil Jordan was responsible for the brilliant directing, which gave the film that extra edge. Brilliant scenery and exquisite furnishings gave the film a realistic touch as to the period (1791), before bringing it up to date. The casting was ...
...French vampire, with beautiful glaring blue eyes. He plays the part well, with humour, anger, love and feeling. I wouldn’t have chosen anyone else. Anne Rice, on the other hand, was not happy at all with this choice. He was not tall enough to play her character, and she publicly declared it at her book signings! Another excellent casting choice was that of Brad Pitt. He was chosen to play Louis, a plantation owner that had just lost his wife ...

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...is somewhat overbearing and arduous. Interview with the Vampire is a superb novel however and when it was touted as being translated to the silver screen I had high hopes for a vampire movie which truly explorers the darkness of the soul. Then came the problems. Rumours abounded that Tom Cruise was to play the role of the callous Lestat, Anne Rice herself panned the casting of the lead actors and it looked as though Hollywood had once again turned ...
...you be. Shortly after the movie was finished Anne Rice, having seen the finished product, had a two page retraction of her previous comments published. The fans, being fans, were still not convinced and even having seen the movie were still sceptical about the movie as a whole, but then does a movie ever match up to the book? You can’t please everyone. To me, IWTV is a superb movie, but then you’ll want to know what its about before you ...

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...in the form of an interview between our journalist “Christian Slater” and Louis “Brad Pitt”, a two hundred year old vampire. The tale starts on the banks of the Mississippi in the 18th Century, it marks the story of Louis, pre “Servant of Darkness” and post. His fight with being a hunter of humans and his disgust at taking their lives. A tale of his relationship with his maker, the deliciously evil vampire Lestat ...
...conflict between them all. This culminating in an insurmountable crescendo of betrayal. It follows the journey of Louis and Claudia to Europe to find the source of the vampire legend and to find answers to the questions asked by Louis’s tormented soul. It traces his meeting with Armand “Antonio Banderas” and the consequent relationship between them. Louis and Armand, the love angle, yes normally apportioned to the female actor ...

clanmac4 12.03.2001 (19.03.2001) · Read full review
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This is one of those classic films, which can be enjoyed by a wide audience whilst having a cult viewing. I suppose it fits in with the genre. But where does it fit in, I suppose it could be called a Gothic/Horror/Thriller – although it is hardly something you have to watch with the lights on. The film does seem to drag on at times although this was only because I was watching it in drips and drabs from video. I advise you to watch from start ...
...it more than once, although I would leave a bit of a gap between each viewing. The story is based on the book of the same title, written by Anne Rice. In my opinion you should enjoy both, but probably read the book first. This way you can see if the characters you pictured in your head match up with the Directors. The cast is absolutely amazing. Tom Cruise revels in his role as Lestat, enjoying his role as a bad guy. The story begins in modern-day ...

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"Interview with a Vampire" - based on Anne Rice's novel of the same name, directed by Neil Jordan, a man who makes disturbing and surprising films. Back when it first came out, the casting made me sceptical, but I have to say, it is an excellent piece of work and one of the most atmosphereic pieces in the vampire genre. The plot: (All done in flashbacks with Louis confessing to a reporter (Christian Slater)Louis (Brad Pitt) is a southern landowner ...
...offered eternal undead life, he thinks this might make him feel better. However, Lestat, (Tom Cruise) turns out to be a bit of a nutter, and drags Louis from the burning weckage of his home and into New Orleans. The two cavort amongst the wealthy, and make a child vampire, Claudia (Kirsten Dunst). Claudia rebels against Lestat, feeling with Louis to the old world, where they meet the Parisian vampires, headed up by Armand (Antonion Banderas.) In ...

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...goods in the horror department. Interview with the Vampire, however managed to have the right mix of ingredients, big name actors, a lavish set, great cinematography, romance and horror, and still managed to be faithful to a much lauded book. The Interview of the title acts as a good plot device to launch the film. Daniel Malloy (Christian Slater) is a sceptical journalist who is recording the auto-biography of a self confessed vampire, one Louis ...
...the deep south of America in the early 1700s. Louis, a plantation owner, has just lost his wife and in a state of depression fueled by drink decides to kill himself. It is at this point that he meets Lestat (Tom Cruise) who saves him and offers him the chance to live forever. Having been turned into the undead minion of Lestat, the realities come home to him, he must kill to live. Not being able to bring himself to do so he survives by living off ...

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In my opinion Interview with the Vampire has to be one of the most awe inspiring vampire movies of its time. With an all star cast including Brad Pitt (Fight Club, Mr and Mrs Smith, troy), Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Mission Impossible, Minority Report), Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro, Desperado), a young Kirsten Dunst (Spiderman) and more. The story itself is loosely based around the book Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice. The movie ...
...will enjoy if you enjoyed Interview with the Vampire, titles include Copycat, The Lost Boys, Excalibur and Risky Business. At the bottom of the screen there is the languages option, English Spanish and German. Below these are the subtitles options in 10 additional languages, apologies for not mentioning them all here there are Spanish, French, English, German, Polish, and the rest are to confusing to translate In conclusion Interview with the Vampire ...

vampiresthirst 24.04.2007 (04.05.2007) · Read full review
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Having never read any of Anne Rice's novels I first heard about the film through a friend (who was something of a Brad Pitt fancier...), and upon giving in and watching it I was pleasantly surprised as this truly is a film well worth watching. The film is based around Louis (Brad Pitt) relating his experiences as a vampire to an eager young reporter (Christian Slater). Becoming a broken man upon the death of his wife and child Louis lost the will ...
...the vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise). We then follow Louis' difficulties in coming to terms with being a blood sucking monster, willing him on as he tries to survive without taking human lives - all the time watching in fascination at Lestat's more direct approach to his prey. A few scenes at this point are pretty sexual in nature and, loathe as I am to use it, "hot" is the adjective that comes to mind. Eventually Louis loses this battle with his conscience ...

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The first thing I have to say is that the main reason I love this film is because I love Anne Rice’s novel from which it is adapted. The film tells the tale of Louis (Brad Pitt) who is turned into a vampire by the seductive Lestat (Tom Cruise) and between them they make child vampire Claudia (Kirsten Dunst). On the whole the plot sticks to that of the novel with the exception of the last disastrous minute (just pretend it never happened). Due to ...
...both Pitt and Cruise actually can act, often very well (Fight Club, Magnolia), and here give good performances, especially Cruise who makes a surprisingly good Lestat. The best performance however is from Dunst who is exceptional as the cold-hearted child killer. The film is beautiful to look at with style and gothic design which captures the atmosphere of the novel better then could be expected. This is rich, dark and brilliant. ...

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...when I heard about the Interview with the Vampire movie I was overjoyed and hunted down this DVD. It didn't diappoint me either; even though it changed quite a few of the details in the book. Brad Pitt played a great Louis. I could not imagine anyone else playing that role after seeing him in action. He got every single emotion right, from the malice and hatred for Lestat, to the undeniable love for his little Claudia the child vampire. Tom Cruise ...
...Louis portrayed him as in the novel when narrating his story. One of the scenes I remember the best was a little before they made Claudia into a child vampire, when Lestat danced around with the corpse of Claudia's mother. I was exactly the way I imagined Lestat acting. Kirsten Dunst played a marvelous Claudia; which was what I thought was a very mature role for a child her age at that time; but she captured her character EXCEPTIONALLY well. The ...

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I always loved vampires, the very idea of them is just so sexy. I always used to stay up late watching hammer horrors and have read loads of vampire novels. My favourites by far were the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. I was very dubious when I heard that the first book was bieng made into a film, but hearing that Anne Rice was writing it herself made it a very interesting prospect. The film is about Louis, a man who lost his wife and son and gave ...
...and bitten, he was offered the choice of death or eternal life as a vampire. The film starts as Louis is being interviewed and telling of his life since that moment. I saw the movie as soon as it came out in the cinema even though I wasn't even 18 then. I was blown away by it. The characters were perfect, Louis was just as tortured as he was in the book, and Tom Cruise played Lestat to perfection, the heartless outside but with the deeper more sensitive ...

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...Louis agrees to do an interview with Daniel, a young journalist. Bitten by the vampire Lestat he is given a new life, which involves killing and drinking the blood of innocent people. Troubled by this, he decides to instead feed on animals, with much mockery from Lestat, who it seems is trying to take revenge on the world. Falling hungry and particularly low one night, Louis feeds on a young girl - Claudia - whos mother has died from the plague. ...
...finds that Lestat has brought the girl home, and that he is going to turn her into a vampire. From then on the estranged threesome travel around, through towns and centuries, until in a fit of rage Claudia becomes angry at Lestat and attempts to kill him. Her and Louis then go on a search to find other vampires, and in Paris come across the freakishly cunning 'Theatre of Vampires' which is inhabited by vampires pretending to be humans pretending ...

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Based on Anne Rice´s 1976 novel and written by Rice and director Neil Jordan, Interview with the vampire (1994) tells about 18th century Southern gent Louis (Brad Pitt) who is turned into a "reluctant" vampire by anything but reluctant Lestat (Tom Cruise). Together they "adopt" little Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) by making her a child vampire and their daughter. Set in Old South and (briefly) in 19th century Paris, Interview is feast of visual and verbal flourishes, all elegant and opulent, but characterwise, I prefer cast of Dracula. ...

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