The best film about Vampires ever made!

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2000)

Interview With The Vampire is flat out the best vampire movie ever made. In Interview, we see vampires more as people, who have feelings and are not just the bloodsucking zombies that the orginal Dracula made them out to be. I felt pity for the misery of Louis (Brad Pitt) and unlike others saw Lestat (Tom Cruise) not as a villain but as a vampire who has accepted who he is. Unlike any other film on the subject, we see that vampires can be compared to us. That during all our lives we feel like an outcast at some point, and vampires are the outcasts of "demonic" fiction. It was also a nice surprise that we saw most of the vampire "rhetoric" done away with. The garlic, crucifixes an stakes through the heart. It is more realistic to see that vampires can be killed in conventional ways like any human, and not in absurd gestures created to add shock value. Overall Interview With The Vampire is a "mature" vampire movie with characters we can all relate with, the movie actually portrays a sense of relevence. And to quote Louis when inquired by the interview, Malloy (Slater) about the myth of dracula "The demented ravings of a drunk Irishmen."