Interview with the Vampire | 
| Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Virginia Mccollam, John Mcconnell
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  423 reviews
Sales Rank: 56988
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 123 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0790729687
UPC: 085391317623
EAN: 9780790729688
ASIN: 0790729687
Theatrical Release Date: November 11, 1994
Release Date: March 26, 1997
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When it was announced that Tom Cruise would play the vampire Lestat in this adaptation of Anne Rice's bestselling novel, even Rice chimed in with a highly publicized objection. The author wisely and justifiably recanted her negative opinion when she saw Cruise's excellent performance, which perceptively addresses the pain and chronic melancholy that plagues anyone cursed with immortal bloodlust. Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst are equally good at maintaining the dark and brooding tone of Rice's novel. And in this rare mainstream project for a major studio, director Neil Jordan compensates for a lumbering plot by honoring the literate, Romantic qualities of Rice's screenplay. Considered a disappointment while being embraced by Rice's loyal followers, the movie is too slow to be a satisfying thriller, but it is definitely one of the most lavish, intelligent horror films ever made. --Jeff Shannon
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 O Claudia, never in the house . . . July 2, 2009
Eddie Munster (New Haven, CT US)
For those who are uninitiated your knowledge of Vampire Movies is in no way complete until you have seen the master of them all, Interview with the Vampire . It is the exception to every rule and the rule to every exception . Lush, powerful, poetically charged with emotion and overwhelming in its portrayal of what it means to have everything yet be left wanting by the sheer tedium of perpetuity & immortality - it is a movie that deservedly embodies the meaning of the word 'Epic', so often overused as a descriptive modifier yet very apt herein . There are films of its kind that achieve the status of Cruise Ship but 'Interview' is truly the only Oceanliner out there, the QM2 of its time and its kind . Heavy, calculating, intricately layed out - yet never resting for a moment in its potent ability to storytell . The first half of 'Interview' provides the interviewer (Christian Slater) with the poignant background of who Louis (Brad Pitt) is and where he came from, the arrival of Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) who plays the protagonist human epicenter of the dynamics between the living and the undead, and LeStat (Tom Cruise) who has brought Louis and Claudia, unwillingly, into his world - from which only sunlight, beheading or fire can provide final escape . In the second half of 'Interview' we arrive in Paris circa 1870, Louis & Claudia searching for LeStat's maker and in so doing hoping to find out more about themselves and the knowledge of the dark gifts LeStat has denied them . What they find instead is Armand (Antonio Banderas), at four-hundred years of age he is the World's oldest living Vampire, Claudia & Louis will be torn asunder after crossing paths with the seductive one - Louis's existence will never be the same again . A gilded era guilty pleasure, frought with love, death, grief, betrayal et al . Breathtakingly filmed with a cinematography that renders everything else in this genre to be pale and anemic by comparison - Interview with the Vampire is the heavyweight, the masterpiece of all Vampire movies, in a league and a class of its own, it attains excellence despite the presence of Tom Cruise, introduces the world to an impressive and powerful little girl named Kirsten Dunst and showcases what Neil Jordan is capable of in a timeless classic that will never go out of style . A must have for any serious Vampire film lover and for every collection to be considered complete .
 Good movie-loses points of bad quality image June 15, 2009
H. C. Ko
I really loved loved the movie itself.Great actors, One of Tom Cruise's finest (seriously). The actors were really captiviting, the special effects blended in beautifully.
Buttttttttt
1. I got special features when I pressed play
2. The face of the background when there is someone in the foreground is blurry.
3.Very poor quality of images, you get wavy vcr-like lines get irritating at one point (e.g wavy lines on brad pitt's faces). If you buy it, go for HD
Maybe some won't mind, but I would have liked to have been warned as I expected good quality as promised
 Okay film... May 28, 2009
R. Randall (York, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The pace for this movie is a LOT slower than I remembered. I prefer the book, in which Louis seems a gentle creature, whereas in the movie they turn him into a cold monster similar to Lestat. However, the film still does the job and gets the gist of the book across. Stick with the book, though, for a better, more intriguing journey.
Interview with a Vampirre May 24, 2009
Steven R. Gallant (USA)
I really enjoyed this movie. The historic journey the Vampire takes is incredible. Very well done. The cast is awesome also.
 Rip Off! May 17, 2009
Rainbow Lobo
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Like new" was actually "like garbage." It wasn't worth the few bucks it took to purchase. The DVD is scratched up as though someone rubbed it on a cement block. This is the worse product I have purchased through Amazon unfortunately. I will NOT be purchasing products from this vender EVER again.
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