She is at first almost amusing in how she lures unsuspecting old ladies to their deaths with her cute “little lost girl” act. Dunst is impossibly beautiful and menacing at the same time. Even more shocking is the character of Claudia ( Kristen Dunst), a child dying of the plague spared death by vampire intervention. This was a groundbreaking take on the old trope of vampires as heterosexual predators dating back to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” published in 1897. Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) (Warner Bros.) It is no surprise that the vampire Lestat ( Tom Cruise) desires him or that other vampires will want to possess him as well. Director Neil Jordan deliberately shows Pitt as androgynous with long hair, perfect skin and full lips. His desire to unburden his conscience sets up the interview of the film’s title as he tells his life story to Christian Slater.
The book would take nearly two decades to be adapted to the screen but by that time, Rice had paved the way for vampires to be portrayed with animal magnetism such that Bela Lugosi would never have gotten away with in the 1930’s.īrad Pitt plays Louis as a mournful sympathetic vampire, regretful of his lost humanity and the loss of human life he is directly responsible for.
Two years later, “Dracula” would open on Broadway with first Frank Langella and then Raul Julia as the Count with obvious sex appeal. Director: Neil Jordan Writer: Anne Rice Stars: Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kristen Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater By Joan AmennĪnne Rice’s debut novel, “Interview with the Vampire” was published in 1976 and was somewhat controversial at the time for its openly erotic depiction of the undead.
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