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The best vampire movie ever made
The old vampire movies are not my cup of tea. Dracula in black and white is boring and lame. Not scary or thought proking, as was the book by Bram Stroker. Interview With The Vampire is a different story, though. As most of you know, Interview With The Vampire is based on the book by Anne Rice. The book is better, but the movie is great in itself.

The movie's beginning takes place in the present. Louis, played by Pitt, tell his life story to an interviewer, Slater, who's name we never find out. Although, in later books by Rice you find out it's Daniel. Most of the movie, I'd say about an hour and a half, is a flash back. You learn about Louis' compainion and maker Lestat, played by Cruise. Lestat is so evil and charming most can't decide whether to love him or hate him. Tom Cruise does a wonderful job as Lestat. Lestat and Louis make a vampire child, Claudia who is played by Dunst. Dunst is fabolous as Claudia. It's a shame that's the best acting she's ever done in her whole career to date.

This story is a sad and beautiful one. Although there is some nudity, voilence, gore, and death this movie is not trash at all. It has all the elements of a good movie. It makes you laugh, cry, and think. Most movies today can't make you think. The only problem is you become very wrapped up in this movie.

I'd recommend this movie to anyone. I watch it all the time and love it more and more everytime I watch it. Everyone who I know whose seen it, wants to watch it again. It truly is a good movie.

Quote the Vampire
Few films could match the pre-release hoopla of the 1994 vampire epic "Interview With the Vampire." Based on the now-classic Anne Rice novel and starring Hollywood big guns Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, this goth horror fantasy lived up to expectations in amazing fashion due to terrific period detail, superb performances and the always-interesting direction of the talented Neil Jordan ("The Crying Game").

Granted, much of the fascinating Rice Novel (the first of her Vampire Chronicles) was forsaken, but so much is followed verbatim that even the most dedicated devotee was - for the most part - pleased. Pitt makes a perfect Louis and, surprisingly, Cruise is terrific as Lestat. Their verbal and eventually physical warfare makes for great fireworks along the recreated riverfront of 18th and 19th century New Orleans French Quarter.

This is arguably the greatest vampire film ever made, though fans of Francis Ford Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula" and Hammer's "Horror of Dracula" may disagree. But the look, the emotion and the angst of these stylish and oh-so-beautiful vampires (Antonio Banderas' Armand is also a memorable character) should capture the imagination of just about any moviegoer with a taste for the unusual.

After viewing "Queen of the Damned," a sad and utterly moronic version of the third Anne Rice novel from her Vampire Chronicles, one can't help but appreciate this thoughful celluloid portrayal. Rarely hitting a bad note - with the exception of a tacked on Hollywood-Guns-and-Roses ending which nearly capsizes the entire film, "Interview With the Vampire" is a great example of what big money moviemakers and producers can create when they take supernatural material seriously. A fine film based on a fine novel. This great work will leave you thristing for more.

Movie Introduction to Anne Rice
A different view on vampirism, a city dwelling kind of vampire who enjoys the good life. Based on one of Anne Rice's several excellent books. Great acting by both Banderas, Pitt and Cruise. A pity they didn't produce any of the other books in this quality.

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