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Interview With the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

1994

Neil Jordan

Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas ...

7.2

72,932

Horror. Fantasy. Drama In present-day San Francisco journalist Daniel Molloy follows the mysterious Louis. Louis allows Daniel to interview him and record his life story. Louis reveals he is a vampire and explains how in 1794, following the death of his wife and daughter, he grew tired of life and welcomed death. But then he met the blonde-haired Lestat who drank Louis’s blood and turned him into a vampire. Together they plundered Louis’s estate and were ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] never makes vampirism look like anything but an endless sadness. That is its greatest strength (...) But the first great vampire movie, 'Nosferatu' (1922), knew better, and so does this one (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"After innumerable failed attempts over nearly two decades, Rice's perennially popular novel has been given an intelligent, darkly voluptuous reading that rises to pulsating life numerous times"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The movie is hypnotic, scary, sexy, perversely funny and haunting in a way that taps into primal fears (...) It can also be gross, snail paced and grindingly glum. You could say the same things about Rice’s book."	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	[Jordan's] sumptuous film is as strange and mesmerizing (...) It's a sophisticated, spookily intense rendering of Ms. Rice's story (...) Promises a constantly surprising vampire story and it keeps that promise."	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Salisbury Empire	"A morbidly fascinating insight into the lifestyle of the undead (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"The major problem lies with Rice's own script, which is dramatically repetitive and philosophically banal"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Horribly exciting, shocking and funny (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Reader	"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"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"One thing remains constant: the guilty, whiny agony of Brad Pitt’s Louis — the vampire as eternal killjoy. He looks like he could use a transfusion, and so, by the end, could the entire movie."	NEU
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	Visually, it's a triumph. Confined to the nocturnal, but finding a style that unities 18th-century New Orleans, 1870s Paris and 1990s San Francisco, Jordan and his great team conjure up splendid visions of elegant depravity."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"When 'Interview with the Vampire' works, it's as compelling and engrossing a piece of entertainment as is available on film today. When it falters, the weaknesses seem magnified (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"Passionately anticipated and much ballyhooed, the film, alas, is little more than a foppish, fang de siecle costume drama. Its pulse barely registers"	NEG
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"A very satisfying film, and surely the first in a long franchise (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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