by Yzzy Quarker

Created on: September 14, 2008   Last Updated: October 09, 2011

Vampires are the sexy, sinister, charismatic branch of the horror genre. They are the only monsters that have to have your permission to enter your domain so they are forced to be seductive. I like vampires; not the weak whiny ones (think Louis in Interview with the Vampire played by Brad Pitt) with identity crises who are too conflicted to drink blood and a disgrace to vampires the world over. I prefer the magnetic yet creepy ones who draw you to them, filling you with dreadful terror as you welcome their embrace. Working toward my favorite, we can start with an interview.

Interview with the Vampire

Even though the vampire telling the story is whiny, he is sexy. And he does live with Lestat who deliciously embraces the vampire lifestyle. The vampire being interviewed is Louis. He tells of the death of his wife and child. Wallowing in self-pity and unable to recover from their loss he wishes for death. A clear case of "be careful what you ask for," Lestat appears to grant this wish. When asked, Louis assures Lestat that he does want to be changed then immediately and forever thereafter is horrified at what he has become. He chooses to drink the blood of rats instead of tasty, life-enhancing human blood. If not for Lestat I would have been wishing with all my heart that someone would stake Louis through his pathetic heart just to end his whining.

As Louis recounts his life to Daniel, a young journalist, we learn of Claudia, a little girl he finds clinging to the decaying body of her dead mother. Even though she turns out to be the exact opposite of Louis, a ruthless killer willing to take human blood any and everywhere, he finds himself loyal to her and increasingly disgusted by Lestat.

He allows himself to be manipulated by Claudia eventually helping her kill Lestat. They leave Lestat in New Orleans, full of blood sucked from a dead body given to him as a peace offering from Claudia. She cuts his throat. Louis sets him and their home on fire and the lovely pair set out to find other vampires. Discovered by vampires in Paris, they find out that Claudia has committed the cardinal sin of killing another vampire, her own maker. They throw in a tower with no protection from the sun, which turns her to a pile of ashes as it passes over. Louis is locked in a coffin to starve in everlasting undead. Rescued by Armand he destroys every Parisian vampire he can find, the opera house that is their home, and returns to America to tell his whiny story to Daniel, a young reporter.

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