An Interview With A Vampire

by Amanda Armitage
(London)

My all time favorite vampire movie is Anne Rice's, "An InterView With A Vampire." Starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and a very young Kristin Dunst.

The movie is a film adaptation of Rice's hit novel series,"The Vampire Chronicles." The movie is steeped in sexual tension which was uncommon when the book was written.

Vampires where never viewed as having much sex appeal until Rice's writings. The film adaptation was amazing, it was a perfect transition from book to film.

The characters, Lestat, played by Tom Cruise and Louis, are both attractive vampires. One embracing his existence, and the other has trouble with his identity as a vampire and finds that he relates more to humans and also has more compassion toward his former kind.

One of my favorite scenes is where Louis, played by Brad Pitt, turns a little girl Claudia played by Kristin Dunst into a vampire.

This film is a very original vampire film., it is so rare to find children vampires in vampire film. Another aspect of the movie that is amazing is the storyline shows a more cautious vampire that is aware of human life. Louis holds on to his former human values after being turned by Lestat.

Lestat is a selfish vampire that desires the companionship of another and that is why he turned Louise into a vampire.

I also enjoyed the story line set up, Louise being interviewed by a journalist, through his recollection of memories that he is telling the journalist the viewer is brought into Louise tale of despair and self hatred.

The ending was also a surprise that I was not expecting, It was sadly hilarious and ironic how Lestat bites the reporter after Louise is finished with telling him his journey as a vampire. At the end of the film it seems that Lestat is continuing the cycle of teaching his victims he has transformed into vampires about the secret and condemned life of a vampire.

This movie is an original classic that has influenced a generation to create attractive and good natured vampires.