interview with the vampire the vampire chronicles

Secure and comfortable, they are one of the only sensible things a vampire can rest in with no fear of the light. Louis admits that most are nonsense, except coffins. In the interview, Molloy asks about vampire stereotypes coffins, crucifixes, garlic, and stakes through the heart. Hearing the commotion and the woman's terrified cries, Lestat rushes over and snaps her neck and berates Louis. Scharfstein), Louis attempts to feed but goes for the woman's irate poodles instead. While Lestat feasts on her powdered servant, ( Lee E. At a party, Lestat convinces Louis to seduce a wealthy but older heiress ( Lyla Hay Owen) in order to drink her blood. Lestat lives with Louis at his plantation and the slaves begin to grow anxious by his presence. As such, Louis begins to suffer and survives by feasting on rats and other small animals. However, he quickly comes to regret his decision and finds feasting on humans immoral whereas Lestat revels in the pleasure of killing. Doing so transforms Louis into a newborn vampire and he is amazed at the change. Louis meets Lestat in a cemetery where the vampire drains him to the point of death before offering him his own blood. Lestat has sensed Louis' dissent for life and returns to him to offer him a new one, giving him 'the choice I never had'. The woman is killed and Louis is fed on, but allowed to live. While wandering the waterfront, drunk and in company of a harlot, he is attacked by a vampire named Lestat de Lioncourt ( Tom Cruise). Having lost the will to live due to the deaths of his wife and infant child in childbirth, he squanders his wealth and gambles in shady bars, welcoming death. Louis begins his story in 1791 where he is a young plantation owner living on his estate in Louisiana.

Louis' skin is translucent and he oozes charm. Molloy is skeptical until Louis brashly displays his supernatural gifts, moving swiftly across the room to turn on a light.

He intends to interview Louis de Pointe du Lac ( Brad Pitt) who claims to be a vampire.

In modern-day San Francisco, reporter Daniel Molloy ( Christian Slater) sets up recording equipment in a run-down, upper level apartment.

Interview with the vampire the vampire chronicles