Interview with the Vampire

Name: Interview with the Vampire
Director: Neil Jordan
Released: 1994

3.50

Synopsis

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

100
Empire
Bold, gruesome and melancholic, this Gothic horrorfest offers us much to sink our teeth into: Cruise - who effectively disappears from the screen for half the film's duration - is terrific, Dunst eerily compelling, Banderas hypnotic.
90
The New York Times
His sumptuous film is as strange and mesmerizing as it is imaginatively ghastly. It's a sophisticated, spookily intense rendering of Ms. Rice's story.
80
Chicago Reader
But if you can get swept up in the story, the movie is imaginative and compelling.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
A stronger plot engine might have drawn us more quickly to the end, but on a scene by scene basis, Interview with the Vampire is a skillful exercise in macabre imagination.
75
ReelViews
When Interview with the Vampire works, it's as compelling and engrossing a piece of entertainment as is available on film today. When it falters, the weaknesses seem magnified.
75
Rolling Stone
But for all its visionary brilliance, the movie version of Interview never lets us close enough to see ourselves in Louis. We're dazzled but unmoved.
67
Austin Chronicle
It is, however, a very satisfying film, and surely the first in a long franchise (it does, after all, bear the subtitle The Vampire Chronicles).
60
Washington Post
Unfortunately, the story, adapted by Anne Rice from her best-selling novel, sucks at the neck a little too long. A 23-minute snipping from this 123-minute movie would have done wonders.