Interview with the Vampire
Original title: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 24 wins & 34 nominations total
Thandiwe Newton
- Yvette
- (as Thandie Newton)
Lee E. Scharfstein
- Widow's Lover
- (as Lee Emery)
Indra Ové
- New Orleans Whore
- (as Indra Ove)
Nathalie Bloch-Lainé
- Maid
- (as Nathalie Bloch)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaChristian Slater was given the role of Daniel Malloy upon the death of River Phoenix, the original choice for the role. Slater donated his $250,000 salary to two of Phoenix's favorite charities.
- Goofs(at around 1h 16 mins) In the Theatre des Vampires, Santiago unties the string on the woman's shirt but just seconds before this it is seen already untied and she moves it to cover herself.
- Alternate versionsReportedly, in original screenings of the film there was extra footage in the scene where Louis finds the burnt bodies of Madeleine and Claudia. In this version, after the bodies crumple to ashes, Louis takes Madeleine's locket that has the picture of the little girl who resembles Claudia.
- ConnectionsEdited into Island of the Living Dead (2007)
- SoundtracksTerpsichore and Harp Concerto in B Flat
Written by George Frideric Handel (as George Frederick Handel)
Adapted by George Fenton
Performed by The King's Consort
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Continuing my plan to watch every Tom Cruise movie in order, I come to Interview With The Vampire (1994)
Plot In A Paragraph: Louis (Brad Pitt) a vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
At the time of release, this was not like any other vampire movie I had seen. In movies like Lost Boys and various others, being a vampire is portrayed as almost fun. This movie goes into what a curse immortality is, in a similar way Highlander did, admits all the decapitations.
Cruise does not play the main role in this one, but he does something all great actors can do. Play the best part in the movie and steal every scene. The best role in a movie, does not need to be the lead role. It just needs to be the most memorable, and Cruise dominates proceedings and truthfully the movie is duller when he is not on screen. Which sadly is almost all the last half of the movie.
Brad Pitt is not an actor I really care for. There are exceptions, but generally he bores me. This is one such example. I must point out Kirsten Dunst,who was rightly nominated for an Oscar. Her performance is superb. If it was not for Cruise she would have stole the movie. Antonio Banderas is OK, whilst Cristian Slater doesn't really have much to do. I never realised Cruises future MI2 co star Thandie Newton was in this. I enjoy the use of Guns N Roses cover of Sympathy For The Devil over the end credits too. I actually let the credits run.
I wonder why there was never a sequel, it's certainly open for one, and the potential is there. Maybe it wasn't a big enough hit. Finishing outside the Top 10 highest grossers of the year. As Interview With The Vampire grossed $105 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 11th highest grossing movie of 1994.
Plot In A Paragraph: Louis (Brad Pitt) a vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.
At the time of release, this was not like any other vampire movie I had seen. In movies like Lost Boys and various others, being a vampire is portrayed as almost fun. This movie goes into what a curse immortality is, in a similar way Highlander did, admits all the decapitations.
Cruise does not play the main role in this one, but he does something all great actors can do. Play the best part in the movie and steal every scene. The best role in a movie, does not need to be the lead role. It just needs to be the most memorable, and Cruise dominates proceedings and truthfully the movie is duller when he is not on screen. Which sadly is almost all the last half of the movie.
Brad Pitt is not an actor I really care for. There are exceptions, but generally he bores me. This is one such example. I must point out Kirsten Dunst,who was rightly nominated for an Oscar. Her performance is superb. If it was not for Cruise she would have stole the movie. Antonio Banderas is OK, whilst Cristian Slater doesn't really have much to do. I never realised Cruises future MI2 co star Thandie Newton was in this. I enjoy the use of Guns N Roses cover of Sympathy For The Devil over the end credits too. I actually let the credits run.
I wonder why there was never a sequel, it's certainly open for one, and the potential is there. Maybe it wasn't a big enough hit. Finishing outside the Top 10 highest grossers of the year. As Interview With The Vampire grossed $105 million at the domestic box office, to end the year the 11th highest grossing movie of 1994.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Entrevista con el vampiro
- Filming locations
- Oak Alley Plantation - 3645 Highway 18, Vacherie, Louisiana, USA(Louis de Pointe du Lac Estate)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $60,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $105,264,608
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,389,705
- Nov 13, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $223,664,608
- Runtime2 hours 3 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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