Vampires have feelings too.

Rating: 9/10 (11 October 2004)

This movie is the best Vampire movie out there. The characters have deep
emotions, not unlike human beings, yet they are so different. They describe
themselves as monsters. This movie plunges into the emotions experienced as
a vampire and describes the bottomless void in the life of a vampire. This movie is much different from those other horror vampire movies because of this. These beings are not mindless monsters, but creatures, striving to be human, living with the terrible realization that they are evil.
As far as the effects, excellent. The eyes are exactly as I imagined them from the book. (I love the whiteness of the skin with the blue veins showing as well.) The costumes, wonderful. Although I didn't live in the 19th century, I have read books and find that they look appropriate for the time. The sets, magnificent. In each new scene I feel that I myself am actually pulled into the world created by the movie.
All in all, it is a great movie, though I didn't very well like the blood in some scenes. It seems that the vampires in the book were a little more careful with their feeding. Yes, the blood may have been too much in some parts. And
Lestat. I would have loved to see more of the vampire Lestat. For example, in the Theatre of the Vampires, where was he?
I really wish they had made a film of The Vampire Lestat. The Queen of The
Damned movie was not even close to being a worthy successor. Though it
wasn't too ridiculously terrible.