Interview with the Vampire (1994)
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Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American gothic horror drama directed by Neil Jordan, based on Anne Rice's 1976 novel. Brad Pitt stars as Louis de Pointe du Lac, a depressed Louisiana plantation owner in 1791 who is turned into a vampire by the charismatic and cruel Lestat de Lioncourt, played by Tom Cruise, and spends the next two centuries searching for meaning in his cursed existence. Their complicated relationship is further entangled when they turn a dying child named Claudia, played by 11-year-old Kirsten Dunst, into a vampire — creating a daughter-figure trapped forever in a child's body while her mind matures into a woman's rage.
Tom Cruise's casting as Lestat was initially protested by Anne Rice herself, who had envisioned the character as otherworldly rather than handsome in a conventional Hollywood way. Cruise silenced the criticism with a flamboyant, seductive performance that captured Lestat's theatrical cruelty and genuine loneliness. Kirsten Dunst's Claudia, a creature of heartbreaking pathos and terrifying violence, was one of the most remarkable child performances in horror cinema.
Interview with the Vampire earned $223 million worldwide on a $60 million budget.
