Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American drama horror film directed by Neil Jordan, based on the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, and starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. The film focuses on Lestat Cruise and Louis Pitt, beginning with Louiss transformation into a vampire by Lestat in 1791. The film chronicles their time together, and their turning of a twelveyearold girl, Claudia, into a vampire. The narrative is framed by a presentday interview, in which Louis tells his story to a San Francisco reporter. The supporting cast features Christian Slater, Kirsten Dunst, and Antonio Banderas.

In modernday San Francisco, reporter Daniel Molloy interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac, who claims to be a vampire.Louis begins by describing his transformation into a vampire in Spanish Louisiana in 1791, at age 24, by the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. Louis sought to die following the deaths of his dear wife and child Lestat offered Louis the death he craved, but Louis asks to live instead. Lestat turns Louis and teaches him how to live as a vampire. At first, Louis rebels against hurting humans, drinking animal blood instead. He finally succumbs and kills his faithful house slave Yvette. Guilt ridden, he tries to kill himself by setting fire to his house, but Lestat rescues him and they flee. ........

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