The Race to Make an Interview With The Vampire Sequel

The race to make an Interview With The Vampire sequel

Warner Bros faced a race against time to make Interview With The Vampire 2, otherwise known as Queen Of The Damned. Here’s what happened in the rush. The 1990s were hardly alight with big, 18-rated studio vampire movies that cost $70m to make. Yet the first big screen outing for author Anne Rice’s French vampire, Lestat, ticked all those boxes. The 1994 blockbuster Interview With The Vampire was a controversial production, not least when Rice he…

Interview With The Vampire Season 1 and 2 Blu-Ray review

Who’d have thought another adaptation of Anne Rice’s seminal Interview With the Vampire would become such addictive television. Under the banner of AMC, the story which was last adapted in the 90s as an uneven but watchable feature, with memorable turns from Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst, but also Brad Pitt phoning it in. Here, from the outset it is clear that no one is phoning it in. Most of all, Sam Reid as the devilish Lestat and his cursed lo…