Interview with the Vampire (1994)

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It's about seduction, and either you succumb to its inky entrapments or you resist. When its mojo was working, I was happy to be had.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

David Ansen

Newsweek

Top Critic

Why would Tom Cruise be playing Lestat, a gaunt, suave European vampire with a taste for young men? Because a big movie star can do whatever he wants.

August 24, 2008 Full Review | Comments (2)

Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

The leading performances, if acceptable, are not everything they needed to be to fully flesh out these elegant immortals.

August 24, 2008 Full Review

Todd McCarthy

Variety

Top Critic

The major problem lies with Rice's own script, which is dramatically repetitive and philosophically banal.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Top Critic

Interview with the Vampire promises a constantly surprising vampire story, and it keeps that promise.

May 20, 2003 Full Review

Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

For all its visionary brilliance, the movie version of Interview never lets us close enough to see ourselves in Louis. We're dazzled but unmoved.

May 12, 2001 | Comments (2)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

...the movie's aggressively overlong running time often does threaten to negate its positive attributes...

November 1, 2011 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Entertaining but gruesomely gory vampire tale.

January 1, 2011 Full Review

Hollis Griffin

Common Sense Media

Beautiful to look at and dripping with atmosphere

October 19, 2010 Full Review

Scott Nash

Three Movie Buffs

...the movie comes off as part pretentious, pseudo, pop psychology and part parody. (Blu-ray Edition)

October 2, 2008 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...something for everyone: heterosexuality, homosexuality, eroticism, murder, mayhem, pedophilia, necrophilia, nudity, gore.

October 2, 2008 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Holds plenty of interest, even for those who find Anne Rice's gothic cult novels unreadable.

August 24, 2008 Full Review

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Jordan tries hard to inject some sort of Gothic sensibility into the film's early sequences, but it isn't until the third act, when the film enters the marvellously atmospheric world of the Thibtre des Vampires, that he really draws blood.

August 24, 2008 Full Review

Film4

Jordan is a master of poetic, deceptive atmosphere.

September 24, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Anne Rice was right the first time around when she criticized Tom Cruise's casting in public, and Brad Pitt is not great either but like every Jordan's film, this problematic adaptation has some merits such as child actress Dunst and some arresting images

April 3, 2007 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Given that this is basically a Reader's Digest condensed version, the movie does a pretty good sweep job.

October 23, 2006 Full Review

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Tragically overproduced, with a glaring central miscast.

June 29, 2004

Jake Euker

F5 (Wichita, KS)

• 1. Claudia: Which of you did it? Which of you made me the way I am?
  – Submitted by Emelyn W (2 months ago)
• 1. Claudia: You dress me like a doll. You make my hair like a doll. Why? You want me to be a doll forever?!
  2. Louis: Claudia, don't.
  3. Claudia: Why not? Can't I change like everybody else?
  – Submitted by Emelyn W (2 months ago)
• 1. Lestat: I enjoy it. Take you aesthete's taste to purer things. Kill them swiftly if you will, but do it! For now doubt, you are a killer, Louis!
  – Submitted by Janis P (6 months ago)
• 1. Louis: Most of all I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it, a release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. Sailors, thieves, whores and slaves... but it was a vampire that accepted.
  – Submitted by Janis P (6 months ago)
• 1. Louis: My last sunrise. That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, yet I don't remember any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time, as if it were the first. And then I said goodbye to sunlight and went out to become what I became.
  – Submitted by Janis P (6 months ago)
• 1. Louis: Bear me no ill will my love we are now even
  2. Claudia: What do you mean?
  3. Louis: What died in that room was not that woman. What has died is the last breath in me that was human.
  4. Claudia: Yes, Father. At last we are even.
  – Submitted by MarieBella C (7 months ago)

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