Interview With the Vampire is about a nightstalker who yearns to maintain his human emotions of love, grief, and guilt.
Director Neil Jordan has brilliantly translated Anne Rice's 1976 novel for the screen with a strong cast that includes Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, and Antonio Banderas.
The drama revolves around Louis (Brad Pitt), a Southerner who in the grip of despair and grief chooses to be a vampire. His manipulative and malevolent mentor is Lestat (Tom Cruise), a fiendishly clever and creative hedonist whose thirst for blood knows no limit. His world beyond good and evil consists of stalking, sucking, and killing.
Louis, on the other hand, wants to keep his conscience alive. In order to appease him, Lestat creates a vampire out of Claudia (Kirsten Dunst), an orphan. But, angry at being imprisoned in a child's body for eternity, she resents Lestat's control over her and Louis. She and Louis flee to Europe to learn more about their origins. In Paris, they encounter more vampires and a fate that splits them apart and sends Louis into deeper anguish and solitude.
Interview With the Vampire presents the meaninglessness of any existence where feelings are disregarded or downplayed. Soul demands we honor the emotions. They are pathways to joy, worth, and meaning. A world where feelings are casualties is truly a horrific world where only loneliness, emptiness, dread, and violence reign.