This week, we slip into gothic melodrama with Neil Jordan’s 1994 movie Interview With The Vampire. Is it a good adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1976 novel? How does it change the ways vampires are treated in the popular culture? Has Kirsten Dunst ever been better than this?

Content warning: violence, violence against animals, violence against children, blood and gore, nudity, fire and burning, slavery

Unanswered Questions:

• What happened to Lestat after Louis and Claudia leave New Orleans?
  
  
• What do the theatrical vampires in Paris get from the public performance of violence?
  
  
• Does the film anticipate the audience response with Malloy’s desire to be turned by Louis?
  

Further reading:

• Meet Joe Black
  
  
• Claire Forlani
  
  
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl
  
  
• Paddington star Sally Hawkins says she won’t appear in next film (The Independent)
  
  
• The 67th Academy Awards
  
  
• The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
  
  
• The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
  

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Join us next time for the beginning of Cruise’s biggest franchise: Brian de Palma’s 1996 spy thriller Mission: Impossible!

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