Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Drink from me and live forever.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
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| Type | Movie |
|---|---|
| Released | 11 November 1994 |
| Genre | Horror, Drama, Fantasy |
| Director | Neil Jordan |
| Starring | Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas |
| Runtime | 123 min |
| Rated | R |
| Scores | Rotten Tomatoes (average) 5.9/10 · Rotten Tomatoes 66% · Metacritic 62/100 · IMDb 7.5/10 · TMDB users 7.4/10 |
| Budget | $60 million |
| Box office | $224 million worldwide |
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What kind of watch this is
Neil Jordan directed this 123-minute drama, which leans into the gothic rather than the gore. The film runs long, but that duration serves the melancholy. Lestat, played by Tom Cruise, tells his story to a reporter, a framing device that keeps the narrative intimate despite the supernatural stakes. Brad Pitt plays Louis, trading fangs for existential dread. It is a film that smells of old books and cold blood. The pacing is deliberate, allowing the loneliness to settle in before the hunger spikes. It is less a horror movie and more a meditation on immortality.
What the critics said
The numbers sit in a comfortable middle ground. Rotten Tomatoes rates it 66%, while Metacritic assigns a 62, a split that suggests general favor without fanatical devotion. Audiences, polled by CinemaScore, handed down a B+. Critics largely agreed on the production design and the leads. Janet Maslin of The New York Times found Cruise "flabbergastingly right" for Lestat. Roger Ebert, writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, called the Paris catacombs "one of the great sets of movie history." Dissent came from Desson Thomson, who compared the script's humor to a weekly sitcom.
How it did with audiences
$60 million in, $224 million out. It opened on Veterans Day 1994, racking up $36.4 million in its first weekend. That figure displaced Home Alone 2 to claim the November record. Audiences rated it 7.5/10 on IMDb as of February 2026. TMDB users agree, giving it a 7.4.
What came next for the cast
Cruise went from Top Gun and Rain Man to Top Gun: Maverick. Pitt moved from Thelma & Louise and True Romance to Se7en and Fight Club. The credits list these shifts but do not prove the film caused them. Sometimes a role simply sits at a hinge.
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