Year: 1994
Running time: 122 min.
Country: United States
Director: Neil Jordan
Screenwriter: Anne Rice. Novel: Anne Rice
Music: Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot
Cast: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Stephen Rea, Indra Ove, Thandiwe Newton, Domiziana Giordano
Producer: Geffen Pictures. Distributor: Warner Bros.
Genre: Horror. Fantasy. Drama | Vampires
Synopsis: In present-day San Francisco journalist Daniel Molloy follows the mysterious Louis. Louis allows Daniel to interview him and record his life story. Louis reveals he is a vampire and explains how in 1794, following the death of his wife and daughter, he grew tired of life and welcomed death. But then he met the blonde-haired Lestat who drank Louis’s blood and turned him into a vampire. Together they plundered Louis’s estate and were forced to relocate to New Orleans. Louis however refused to drink human blood. He turned Claudia, a young child dying of the plague, into a vampire and together the three of them became a perverse family. But driven by his need to know the reason for their condition, Louis travelled to Europe in search of answers.
