Interview with the Vampire

I have read Anne Rice's vampire novels, not all of them but enough to get a clear impression of her writing style, characterisations and settings for her work. Interview with the Vampire, for me, largely misses the mark on each and every count.The characters don't feel like the Rice's, they lack the personality and finesse, she infused her characters with. The time period/setting is in many respects, off the mark, too. Worse still, there's is politic's infused into this work. There's a dash of rather obvious negative Russian messaging and yet more woke-ism, I personally, could have done…

So this is one of those titles that IMDb will remove your review if it's not positively glowing. I'm not sure why, the source material was already really progressive. It was essentially a story about two Gay men who happen to be vampires... and their violent break up. But it was subtle, it was artistic, and it had more of a story to tell about good and evil among other things. Subtle is the key, because in the 2022 version, there is nothing subtle or artistic. Vampires can't have sex in the novels to up the sexual tension and angst. In this title I guess they didn't think it would be woke…

Just another woke crap coming from Holywood. Didn't expect anything good from them nowadays...

This is the first product of a collaboration between **_Anne Rice_** and her son **_Christopher Rice_**(also an author), deciding to rework her own novels as a TV series universe after reclaiming the production rights from Universal Studios. Unfortunately some fans did not get that memo, so have dismissed it as Hollywood "woke crap" that doesn't respect the source material. You'll find many reviews online that go down that route of ignorance, but both the original books, and the reimagined TV show version are examples of how creatity can deliver variations of the same tale that both work…