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Over the past few years, I have been begged and begged by friends and family to watch this film and now I finally have and now I can see why they have been begging me to watch it! What a brilliant film it turned out to be with a lot of scares and violence which is, after all, what a vampire film is all about (unlike that stupid crap Twilight series). To be honest, I would say that Interview With The Vampire is one of the very few vampire films where they truly show the horror of vampires and what they do.
A night in San Francisco, during our time: A young journalist follows a man through the streets and they end up in an anonymous room. When the journalist starts to interview the man, the stranger tells him that he is a vampire, being over 200 years old. The journalist doesn't believe him, but after the man proves it's true, he tells his story: His name is Louis and in 18th century New Orleans he was 24, by this time owner of an estate and a widower already. One night, when he once again was destroying himself by drinking and other things, he was found by Lestat, a vampire, who bit him. But even after becoming a vampire, life wasn't fun for Louis until one night he met a little girl, Claudia, who should change his existence forever. The acting was absolutely fantastic from everybody in this film! Tom Cruise was just absolutely amazing as Lestat De Lioncourt! He surprisingly terrified the audiences and made Lestat in Interview With The Vampire one of his best roles as an actor. In fact, I would say that his performance in this film is just as good as his performance was in Magnolia. Brad Pitt was already a role model and had already appeared in Legends Of The Fall the same year Interview With The Vampire was released but this time, Brad goes somewhere a bit darker. Yeah, he is a vampire in this but he's the ''innocent vampire'' so to speak. Kirsten Dunst was just amazing and made a breakthrough in her career just like she did in Jumanji! I would compare Dunst's performance almost as good as Linda Blair's performance in The Exorcist. Despite she got a Golden Globe nomination, she should have earned an Oscar nomination for her role in this film!
Neil Jordan made this film absolutely brilliantly! I mean, most of the time films are set in the Victorian era and just fail but this is a vampire film and it could have been an utter disaster and it really wasn't at all! Only one fault I have with the film was that it seemed like an epic vampire film from the cover and the trailer but it didn't quite feel that way. Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Art Direction and Best Original Score.
Overall, Interview With The Vampire is a terrifying vampire film that was beautifully made and amazingly acted! There needs to be more vampire films like this!!
9/10
