Interview with the Vampire

This is a rare instance where I like the movie better that the book. Mainly because Tom Cruise as Lestat is amazing, but also, the costumes, the hair, the Louis being the archetypal brooding vampire while Lestat joyfully eats half of New Orleans....



I rewatched the movie the same day I finished the audiobook, and the two are very similar. They change Louis' back story a bit, in the movie his catalyst is his wife dying in childbirth, which the book has a disturbing story about his fifteen year old brother suffering religious delusions and then falling down the stairs, I understand why they went with the more succinct backstory for the movie. Also Babette is cut, and Louis' relationship with Armand ends a bit differently. The most surprising thing is that in the book Lestat goes to Paris, and tells they vampires there that Claudia and Louis tried to kill him, which explains why they try to kill Louis and Claudia. It was kind of strange that they cut that from the movie.