After reading a friends review on
the same – couldn't resist but got myself a Director’s Cut DVD rip with an
interview with the cast, director and critics too. I relived those haunting
memories from the past. This in today's time should be considered as a crash
course in vampirism, telling you everything about the same, how a vampire is
made, taught to survive and what all they go through in the life which
technically never ends. I was so looking forward to that never given warning at
the very start of the movie “Do not try this at home”. What a fantastic movie
this turned out to be with that amazing casting of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt,
Antonio Banderas and Kirsten Dunst that too in one movie with almost 120
minutes of sheer fun. But mind it – its not for the weak hearted – I saw it
today afternoon and my lunch was served in between and wifey was shocked and
said “How can you watch this and eat your lunch in the meantime”. It is gross
to say the least with some scenes actually showing how vampires are made, vampires
sucking blood of humans, in one particular scene they pick up a rat – slit it
open and squeeze it into a wine glass and drink it – how cool is that. One hell
of a movie – which shocks you, moves you, makes you sympathize with them yet at
one point you want their powers too specially the one that they survive for
hundreds of years and still look young. If you love horror / thriller / vampire
movies – you shouldn't miss this.
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| Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst |
The Movie: Starts in modern day
today with a reporter (Christian Slater) taking an interview of Louis (Brad
Pitt) who claims to be a vampire. The very first scene when Slater asks Brad to
prove that he is vampire and we get a close up of Brad’s eyes is scary with
excellent chilling music in background. Right at this point you imagine what is
it going to be to see his whole life open in front of us while he tells his
story right from the beginning. After his wife’s death in the childbirth along
with the baby – he has no wish to live and was thinking of ending his life. One
fateful night when is drunk with a prostitute and her pimp holds him back on
knife point – Lestat (Tom Cruise) appears and kills both the pimp and the
prostitute, picks up Louis and flies with him drinking his blood, Louis anyways
wants to die but he suddenly changes his mind and Lestat makes him a vampire
which he agrees to become. Louis a different kind hearted vampire who couldn’t
drink human blood hence survives on animal bloods – the scenes where he sucks
blood out of a Rat and other animals are gross and not everybody’s cup of tea. The
way Lestat sucking blood of humans is totally out of this world experience – at
least I saw it for the first time in such details that too in this movie which
was made in mid 90’s. Louis later finds a sick child Claudia (Kirsten Dunst)
with her dead mother; he bites her and makes her a vampire daughter. Lots of
years go by and Claudia realizes she will never grow – furious she tries to
kill Louis by making him suck blood from already dead people knowing this will
weaken his powers and slits his throat, they burn the whole building down and
flee to Paris from the spot in a ship.
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| Making Claudia a Vampire |
Louis tries to find out how the
vampires came to be in the year 1870 in Paris USA
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