Interview with the vampire

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Anyone watch it on BBC tonight??

I didn’t know it was on so didn’t watch it but I remember watching it in the cinema when it was released. (We had all read all the books and loved them) when the film finish, some bloke stood up and said it was rubbish. I was disproportionately annoyed and I’ve never forgotten it. He obviously thought it was a horror film, he just didn’t get it! I always wished they had made the rest of the books.

Love love loved it!!

I read the books yonks ago and also loved them. I feel a binge coming

Ha! Interview With The Vampire remains only one of two films that I've walked out of at the cinema! 😁

This is the new TV series.

I'm really liking the modern twist on it

I'll be watching later,

I hope they actually explore the homoeroticness of it in the series!

I’ve recorded it, looking forward to watching it soon

I didn't like it. Thought the two leads were very uncharismatic. Lestat was just creepy. I loved the film though so maybe I'm unfairly comparing.

I gave up, seemed quite daft

@wiseoldtree - they definitely did

I've not watches the film or read the books and loved the TV series. Now thinking ill add the books to my read next list!

Its on my list to watch. Loved the film.. hope this series is good...the bbc dracula series was shocking...but i also love coppolas dracula film. Same as what we do in the shadows, film amazing..series really bad

This is the new TV series.

I am sleepwalking through life! 😂 I had no clue they were doing one. I will see if I can squeeze it in to watch.

I think you have to just forget the film and watch the TV series with fresh eyes.

Do agree @NooNakedJacuzziness Lestat is creepy.

Just watched on catch up. For the BBC- wow !

It was interesting.

The guy who plays Lestat isn't great. His "French" accent is a bit shaky and it was hard understand his at times.

I watched the first ep last night. It was difficult at first to separate from the film, but I enjoyed it. I think!

I don't know why, but Lestat reminded me of Robert Webb lol. It's good that he had a French accent though. Beautiful filming too, I'll stick with it.

The new Louis back stroy didn't quite work. It was good to make him a black man, the lack of non whote characters was a failing of the original stories given New Orleans is so racially mixed. However I couldn't quite get the background. The impression given was of family wealth and status and there were references to his father's sugar cane fortune being lost. I assumed the dead father was white and when he died his black/bi racial family lost status?

Moving the meeting of Louis and Lestat to the early twentieth century was a bit odd, surely the idea of Lestat just turning up in New Orelans and lording it around made more sense for an eighteen century setting? Less so in 1910.

@Ginmonkeyagain

Agree on the making of Louis black, although the actor did have nuances of Brad Pitt's "whining" Louis in his voice at times.

Aren't the family wealthy because of Louis' brothel-keeping? I guess the producers brought the timeline forward so it's completely different to the film, otherwise there'd be all sorts of comparisons. Looking forward to seeing Claudia - I believe she's a teenager rather than a kid.

The TV show being shown on BBC now was broadcast in the States about a year ago!!

Totally disagree! WWDITS tv show is amazing

I enjoyed the first episode, but I’m not sure about bringing Louis becoming a vampire (was going to say making, but that’s Buffy/True Blood isn’t it) into the 20th century. Isn’t half of his angst about the futility of centuries of never changing? He hasn’t had time!

That’s what makes the films “Oh Louis, Louis. Still WHINING, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries” so funny.

IWTV is one of my favourite Tom Cruise movies. Lestat is such a dick and Louis is such a whinger.

I enjoyed the first episode but the actors have big shoes to fill with these characters. Maybe that’s why they’ve changed the back story and timeline?

Started watching but the main characters seem lacking in charisma so far.

I watched most of the first episode earlier and won't bother with any more. I hated all the casting, and all the deviations from the books, absolutely awful. I don't like the film either, I just love all the books (and everything else Anne Rice wrote)

I’m still not sure after the first episode, but I’m trying not to mind too much about the changes they’ve made and just go with it. I think the Lestat is better than Tom Cruise, but as a PP said - is that supposed to be a French accent? It is all very lovely to look at, though!