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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: Interview With the Vampire
Description: [School of Movies 2021]
One of the most expensive, vampire films ever made. This first adaptation of Anne Rice's Chronicles ran on star power, lavish costume and set design and a potent strain of existential crisis. It's the tale of Louis, a mourning, bereaved widower who in his despairing malaise meets a sleazy, charismatic, sociopathic vampire named Lestat. For reasons we will go into, Louis decides eternal life would be a splendid idea at this point.Â
Neil Jordan directs the hell out of this intense Gothic melodrama, which was very important to Sharon as a teenager, a...