![]() ![]() ![]() Starring Brad Pitt as the sullen Louis de Pointe du Lac, Tom Cruise as unrepentant killer Lestat de Lioncourt, and directed by Neil Jordan, the film would go on to become a massive hit, garnering several Academy Award nominations (Best Art Direction and Original Score) and a Golden Globe Award for then twelve-year-old Kirsten Dunst for Best Supporting Actress. While Anne Rice’s 1976 gothic novel, Interview with the Vampire, immediately made a deep and permanent impact on the horror landscape-her 1980s follow ups, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, reached increasingly larger audiences, with the latter debuting on the New York Times Bestseller List-the success of the 1994 film of the same name pushed her Vampire Chronicles (the collective series’ name) into the stratosphere. ![]()
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