wow!

Rating: Null/10 (7 September 2002)

Interview with a Vampire was a film I had waited a very long time to see. When the film was released in 1994 I was 7. At the age of 15 I finally saw it at a friends house and was amazed by it! It was better than i had ever imagined it to be and i fell in love with it.
The acting is amazing! Tom Cruise is wonderful! His Lestat is dark and creepy and I was shocked to read that Anne Rice, the author of the book, had critisized the choice to cast him. Brad Pitt is great in the role of Louis. He does well to convey the misery he feels. Kirsten Dunst as Claudia delivers by far the best performance in the films! The other supporting roles performed by Christian Slater, Stephen Rea and Antonio Banderas are also brilliant.
This film is dark and gothic and in some places like a black comedy. One of my favourite scenes of the film is when Lestat discovers Louis killing Claudia and picks up Claudia's dead mother and dances round the room with her declaring "there is life in the old lady yet!" there are also some horrificly frightening scenes where Lestat is set on fire and later when Claudia and her new vampire campanion are killed by the sun light and again when a vengeful Louis kills sleeping vampires.
I find I like this film more and more each time i see it and would recommend this film! Cruise and Pitt put out career defining performances as the 2 vampires and Dunst gives her best performance to date! This is a must see movie!