Jordan has moved from The Crying Game to The Dying Game. Louis regrets losing his humanity, and he and Lestat bicker for about 200 years. He turns Louis into a vampire - there’s an exchange of bodily fluids - because he likes pretty company and needs a nice place to stay. The plot pulls you in as soon as Lestat puts the bite on Louis de Pointe du Lac - that’s Brad Pitt. Hasn’t Rice compared Lestat to Captain Ahab, Custer and Peter the Great?īut you still think “Interview” is strong material for a movie?ĭamn straight. We’re not talking great literature, but the book is more than a guilty pleasure. Read her book, OK? And the follow-up The Vampire Lestat - the second of four books in her Vampire Chronicles. You could say the same things - pro and con - about Rice’s book.Įarly on, Cruise slits the throat of a squirming rat, lets its blood drip into a wineglass and offers it to Brad Pitt, who plays a vampire in training, with a warning to drink up before it gets cold. It can also be gross, snail paced and grindingly glum. I’ll name five: The movie is hypnotic, scary, sexy, perversely funny and haunting in a way that taps into primal fears. The following “Interview With the Critic” will give you an idea of the hell raised when I recommend Interview to friends who can answer back. They resent the unremitting hype, the glib cruelty of the genre and the casting of Tom Cruise as the blond, Byronic vampire Lestat (Rice resented it, too, but later recanted). Around this office, Interview really pushes people’s buttons. But it’s one thing to write it in a review and another to say it in person to a potential ticket buyer who’s in your face and wanting proof. Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69.Neil Jordan’s $50 million film of Anne Rice’s best-selling Interview With the Vampire is a major movie with major problems. He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988. His first novel, The Rats, was an instant bestseller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages.īorn in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. James Herbert was one of Britain's greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. War is declared on the public enemy number one. Evacuation seems the only solution in the face of a growing panic and mounting death toll. The attacks are swift and sure, escape is impossible. Women, children, old and young, none are safe from the deadly menace. Listen to the first chapter of THE RATS by James Herbert in this weeks Soundcloud Sunday.īook One in Herbert's classic 'rats' series.
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