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It’s hard for many people to remember that, before he was Tom Cruise, the President of Movies and Action Icon, he was actually Tom Cruise, character actor. Yes, it’s true, Cruise often took roles because of their depth and complexity, similar to those taken on by the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio or Timothée Chalamet and one of those roles is proving to be as immortal as the haunting vampire Lestat de Lioncourt himself, with a return to that world imminent.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially announced that Interview with the Vampire will receive a brand-new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release on September 22, complete with a standard edition and a limited-edition SteelBook. The release features a new 4K restoration, Dolby Vision HDR, Dolby Atmos audio, and a collection of brand-new bonus features celebrating the beloved gothic horror classic.
The film, which was directed by Neil Jordan and adapted from the bestselling novel by Anne Rice, follows a wealthy plantation owner, Louis de Pointe du Lac, in 18th century Louisiana who is transformed into a vampire by Lestat but, unable to come to terms with the fact he now has to feast on humans to survive, spends centuries dealing with his guilt while Lestat… doesn’t. So to keep Louis from bailing, Lestat turns a dying young girl named Claudia into a vampire and, although she remains physically a child forever, her mind grows up, which creates a truly horrific dynamic.
The new 4K edition includes two newly produced featurettes, Eternal Night and Deadly Light and Interview with the Vampire: Creating the World, alongside Neil Jordan’s audio commentary, the In the Shadow of the Vampire documentary, deleted scenes, and more.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
Alongside Cruise, the movie stars Brad Pitt (F1) as Louis de Pointe du Lac, Christian Slater (Mr. Robot) as Daniel Molloy, a scene stealing and immensely precocious Kirsten Dunst (Civil War) as Claudia, Antonio Banderas (Babygirl) as Armand and Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) as Santiago.
The film was an immense commercial success, grossing $223.7 million worldwide against a budget of around $60 million. It became one of Warner Bros.’ biggest hits of 1994 and was among the highest-grossing horror films of its era. Critically, the response was more mixed, with Rotten Tomatoes listing a score of 63% from critics, while audience satisfaction was somewhat higher at 86%. Over the years, however, its reputation has grown considerably, as it’s now widely regarded as one of the defining vampire films of the modern era and one of the strongest literary adaptations of Anne Rice’s work.
Interview with the Vampire arrives on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and limited-edition SteelBook on September 22.
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A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.