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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 724
Released: June 6, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
When it was announced that Tom Cruise would play the vampire Lestat in this adaptation of Anne Rice's bestselling novel, even Rice chimed in with a highly publicized objection. The author wisely and justifiably recanted her negative opinion when she saw Cruise's excellent performance, which perceptively addresses the pain and chronic melancholy that plagues anyone cursed with immortal bloodlust. Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst are equally good at maintaining the dark and brooding tone of Rice's novel. And in this rare mainstream project for a major studio, director Neil Jordan compensates for a lumbering plot by honoring the literate, Romantic qualities of Rice's screenplay. Considered a disappointment while being embraced by Rice's loyal followers, the movie is too slow to be a satisfying thriller, but it is definitely one of the most lavish, intelligent horror films ever made. --Jeff Shannon
Interview with the Vampire Reviews:
Even After All These Years, Louis and Lestat are My Loves 
2008-08-18 - What more can I say? Tom Cruise is stunning as Lestat--I read the book first before seeing the movie the night it was released, and Cruise brings Lestat to life so perfectly, it's hard to believe Lestat isn't real!
And Pitt as our tortured and loveable Louis...completely perfect.
And let's not forget one of my most favorite actresses--Kirsten Dunst is stunning even at her young age as the alluring and selfish Claudia. She is amazing, and this movie proves it.
Why the heck don't I own this movie? It's only one of my all-time favorites!!
Snicker...a movie so pretentiously bad it's actually funny...the Plan 9 From Outer Space of its era... 
2008-08-05 - What to say about this movie except that I almost started laughing after a while.
When this movie first came out, it was really scary for its time.
My, how things have changed. "Dark Knight" was scarier than this movie, and it only got a PG-13 rating.
Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise are really, really bad, just awful, oomph, kick in the gut, laughably bad actors in this movie. Now, they've been good in some other roles, but seriously, they just don't have the chops to play 200 year old vampires right.
Antonio Banderas in mascara makeup! What a riot! And all that pancake mix on all of these actors' faces...snicker....
Ooooh....overt homoerotic man-loves-boy themes! Pretty exotic stuff for its time (1994), now just awfully silly, not to mention something that is both out in the open AND severely criminalized in our current wacky society. Today, 14 years later, we would see Lestat just surf the Net and/or join NAMBLA...and then get busted in a Special Report on NBC "Dateline".
The worst aspect of this movie had to be the soundtrack - WOW, it's like they tried to score this movie like one of those melodramatic horror flicks from the 1950's...unbelievably bad musical score - it turned every scary moment into a farce...
Kirsten Dunst, what a prodigy! She was only 12 years old when this movie came out, and... strangely enough, she talks...and acts... exactly...the same way...still. It's as if she never was a child.... Hmmmmm....
Better than the book.
2008-06-23 - I read the book before seeing the movie.
It seemed to capture the essence of the book.
And it did.
Well, Tom Cruise had to hetero up the character.
Otherwise he did a phenomenal job of bringing Lestat to life.
A brilliant movie, great acting all around, great music, very well paced.
A must see for horror fans.
A movie that finally outdoes the book.
And now I have to rant on Cruse for a minute.
I remember when this movie came out and all the HEAT he took from people for doing this movie.
It's too dark, it's too scary, it's too...........BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!!!!!!!!
I wish Tom's core audience would shut up and let him do his thing.
I was and still am SOOOOOOOOOO tired of seeing Cruise in his usual "Top Gun" role.
Interview finally proved the guy can act, REALLY act.
And he took so much crap from his core audience of straight women in their 40's for not doing his usual dumbed down romance role.
GIVE IT UP!!!
Have any of you noticed he's never done a role NEARLY as risky as this one since then?
It's his career and his life people, let him live it the way HE wants.
The vampire Cruise NEVER would have committed that couch jumping episode years later on Oprah.
Go back to your risky roles Tom, you deserve better than a bunch of screaming post teen women telling you how to run your life.
Interview???
Oh yeah, Interview With The Vampire.......
The single most brilliant Vampire movie Hollyweird has ever produced.
Highly recommended.
Entrancing like the novel!
2008-06-11 - I first was introduced to this movie when I was 13, and it still haunts me today. I read the book two years later, and suprisingly, I love both just as much! I was also glad that Anne Rice that did the screenplay, since not a lot of authors get that chance. By her doing that, she brought what she wrote to life instead of someone else.
Tom Cruise: Best performance I've ever seen, since he's very diverse in his career. I haven't looked at him the same way since, like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Very chilling, likeable and sexy!
Brad Pitt: Another great performance of Louis! I love the humanity still portrayed after he's turned, and adds a bit of light to the film.
Kirsten Dunst: Scared the life out of me! Just as scary, and sick, as in the novel. She touches the surface of her love for Louis, which made her such a great performer.
Antonio Banderas: In the book, Armand is much younger, but hey when you get someone sexy like Banderas, you can't complain! Just the way he looks at the characters makes you wish you weren't really there.
Another thing I absolutely loved was the dark, beautiful soundtrack by Elliot Goldenthal. That is one any vampire lover must have in their music library. The opening song sucks you right in until the very end. But one thing I didn't like, since I'm religious, was the nudity and torture to the girl on the stage. It was in the novel, and I'm glad they stayed faithful to it, but it was hard to watch. But otherwise, the blood and dark atmosphere was amazing to watch. This is highly recommended, you won't regret it!
Great Movie but..... 
2008-05-30 - This was a great movie but it's missing a lot of key elements from the book. It's been a while since I've read the book so one of the only things I can remember is that when Lestat turns Louis in the movie it was Fast and on the docks. In the book Louis was dying from some sort of sickness. Lestat showed up in his room and asked "I can make it all go away." Lestat planned it out because he watched Louis and knew that he'd have a safe place to stay during the night if he turned Louis into a creature of the night. One other was when they got the Nanny in the movie she died within 1 or 2 nights. In the book it was like 1 or 2 weeks. All in all it's a good movie. But it lacks the intense story of the book.
