Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Neil Jordan
0.5/5
Eat your heart out Twilight, this film is worse. The long arduous and boring plot is supplemented with dull dialogue and voice over narration. Trying to believe Brad Pitt as a vampire is only usurped by attempting to believe Tom Cruise as a vampire. The vampire make up is ridiculous, the musical score over wrought and melodramatic. Whether the screenplay is faulted from the source material by author Anne Rice or due to adaptation, this film is incredibly dull and far too long. One exception is Kirsten Dunst who gives a great performance and to hear her say lines such as "I'll get rid of the bodies" while dressed like a doll was a rare treat. The effects were pretty bad and watching Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fly was one of the many wtf cheesy moments. Also, the scenes between Pitt and Cruise were more than slightly homoerotic. The vampire lore explored in the film also wasn't that interesting and hard to believe even within the fantasy world itself. Overall, far too long, dull nonsensical plot, bad performances, and terrible make-up design and effects. This vampire film takes a B grade genre to a whole other level of badness. It wasn't even cheesy enough to make it enjoyable for it's badness, it was just plain bad.
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