Anne Rice's best-selling romantic horror tale about the origins of a centuries-old vampire inspired this popular, atmospheric chiller. One of director Neil Jordan's major Hollywood productions, the film stays close to its source material, retaining the frame of a young reporter (Christian Slater) interviewing a man who claims .. Read more
| Starring | Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas |
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| Director | Neil Jordan |
| Genres | Horror |
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Anne Rice's best-selling romantic horror tale about the origins of a centuries-old vampire inspired this popular, atmospheric chiller. One of director Neil Jordan's major Hollywood productions, the film stays close to its source material, retaining the frame of a young reporter (Christian Slater) interviewing a man who claims to be a 200-year-old vampire. The man, Louis (Brad Pitt), shares his story, beginning in 18th-century New Orleans with his first encounters with the charismatic and decadent vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise). Lestat converts Louis to blood-sucking and immortality, but Louis fails to adopt Lestat's cavalier attitude, instead tormenting himself with guilt over his new nature. The two vampires remain deeply, if reluctantly, connected over the years, while becoming intimately involved with others of their kind, including Claudia (Kirsten Dunst), a mature immortal in a young child's body. Fans of the novel raised numerous objections, particularly after Rice initially spoke out against the casting of Cruise as Lestat; further casting difficulties followed the death of River Phoenix, whose role as the interviewer was assumed by Christian Slater. Rice later recanted her objections, and the combination of thrills and gothic romance proved popular with audiences.~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater, Thandie Newton |
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| Director | Neil Jordan |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 58 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 57 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 57 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Collections | Ezio's Top 10 |
| Genres | Horror |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, English |
| Released | Production year: 1994 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 02 Jul 2010 To Rent: DVD: 28 Oct 2002 Blu-ray: 13 Oct 2008 |
| LOVEFiLM Instant | £2.49 |
A brooding period piece on horror themes and the price paid for immortality, with a homoerotic subtext, but lacking the necessary emotional depth and narrative credibility as it skips through the centuries; what lingers in the mind are some of the more sp
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superb..................
this dvd is superb. The story opens in present day San Francisco. Louis (played by Brad Pitt), a 200 year-old vampire, is telling his life story to an ... read more »
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classical brilliant horror
this film is as good as the book.
Cruise plays a brilliant lestat.
if your a fan of anne your gonna love this film, if not you soon will ... read more »
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Pitt / Slater
Pitt / Slater – Before there was True Blood; before there was Twilight; before Buffy, Angel and Vampire Diaries (pah!), there was Interview with the ... read more »
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Give this one a miss
To say this film has an all star cast it was a boring diatribe and filled with bad acting everywhere. Do yourself a favour and give it a miss.
Why do middle names sound so much grander in Spanish? Joe Anthony Bands doesn’t sound like a movie star to me, but Jose Antonio Dominguez Banderas? You can see where he gets that Puss in Boots swagger. Born in Malaga just over 51 years ago, Banderas was brought up in a conservative household. His father was in Franco’s Civil Guard, his mother was a schoolteacher. Both were practicing Catholics. Antonio rebelled and joined a theatre company as a teenager (apparently he was inspired... Read more
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