WATCH PARTY: Interview with a Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan @ Pretlow Library

By popular demand, the 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire, with a star-studded cast that includes Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, and Stephen Rea. (h/t cinephile Jesse H.)

RUNTIME: 122 minutes

SYNOPSIS: Born as an 18th-century lord, Louis is now a bicentennial vampire, telling his story to an eager biographer. Suicidal after the death of his family, he meets Lestat, a vampire who persuades him to choose immortality over death and become his companion. Eventually, gentle Louis resolves to leave his violent maker, but Lestat guilts him into staying by turning a young girl -- whose addition to the "family" breeds even more conflict.

BLURBS:

"Interview with the Vampire promises a constantly surprising vampire story, and it keeps that promise." - Janet Maslin, New York Times

"Vampires throughout movie history have often chortled as if they’d gotten away with something. But the first great vampire movie, Nosferatu (1922), knew better, and so does this one. It is a film about what it might really be like to be a vampire." - Roger Ebert

"The histrionic energy and ambition, operatic pathos and dapper, jaunty offensiveness are undimmed. Interview With the Vampire is still horribly exciting, shocking and funny." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian