Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
Geffen Pictures | Release Date: November 11, 1994 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
EmpireAdam Smith
Bold, gruesome and melancholic, this Gothic horrorfest offers us much to sink our teeth into: Cruise - who effectively disappears from the screen for half the film's duration - is terrific, Dunst eerily compelling, Banderas hypnotic. Read full review
100
USA TodayMike Clark
The generally faithful script is by Anne Rice herself, the director is "The Crying Game"'s Neil Jordan, and both seem true to themselves and as true as they can be to artistic and visceral expectations. [11Nov1994 Pg. 01.D]
100
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
Interview With the Vampire is still horribly exciting, shocking and funny. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
His sumptuous film is as strange and mesmerizing as it is imaginatively ghastly. It's a sophisticated, spookily intense rendering of Ms. Rice's story. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
But if you can get swept up in the story, the movie is imaginative and compelling. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A stronger plot engine might have drawn us more quickly to the end, but on a scene by scene basis, Interview with the Vampire is a skillful exercise in macabre imagination. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
When Interview with the Vampire works, it's as compelling and engrossing a piece of entertainment as is available on film today. When it falters, the weaknesses seem magnified. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
But for all its visionary brilliance, the movie version of Interview never lets us close enough to see ourselves in Louis. We're dazzled but unmoved. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
The look is fine, the effects are special, the cast is solid, and Jordan (in company with Rice) makes a commendable effort to add a cerebral dimension to a visceral genre. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff(not credited)
This darkly effective horror drama holds plenty of interest, even for those who find Anne Rice's gothic cult novels unreadable. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It is, however, a very satisfying film, and surely the first in a long franchise (it does, after all, bear the subtitle The Vampire Chronicles). Read full review
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