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From the novel of the same name by Anne Rice
I remember reading this on a 5 hour plane flight from VA to CA...and I couldn't put it down. As I remember, I finished it in the car as Mr. Otter drove me back from the airport, after far too many days without him and with my family. Just couldn't stop reading it. And I did read several other books by her, and liked them...until I got tired of the whole goth-vampire-myth thing (so aptly parodied by Garth Ennis in the graphic novel Preacher) and the fact that Rice simply cannot bring any story to an end...right up through Witching Hour, she left everything open ended so that her characters could go on and on like the energizer bunny. I got so completely fed up with it that after that book, I stopped reading her. But this was one of her first books, and a great read. And the movie was very good too...although I do have to admit that the aforementioned plane ride was twenty years ago, so I really couldn't tell you how close to the book the movie was...Rice herself wrote the screenplay, so my guess is, very. Anyway. Yes, this is a wonderful movie. Slow paced, like the lives of the vampires themselves. Beautifully filmed, enticing, exotic, full of atmosphere. Brad Pitt is the 'new' vampire, and Tom Cruise (in a blond wig and a mouthful of false teeth that make him TOTALLY not look like himself) plays Lestat. Their incredibly wierd and codependent relationship is beautifully acted by both, especially when Kirsten Dunst is added to the mix (and totally steals the show, imho). Antonio Banderas is a Serious Honey here (playing Armand, the oldest vampire) and the Vampire Palace in Paris is worth the whole movie. This one is a winner, enjoy. And for an amusing but unrelated story: one of the games Mr. Otter and I like to play is to read the titles of movies on theater marquees and try to make some kind of sense out of them. When this movie came out, he swears he saw one that said, NOW HIRING! and beside it, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
The best one I've ever seen was three movie titles in a row:
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