Anne Rice’s interview with a vampire

Vampires used to be in my list of favorite monsters but in recent years the idea of what represents a good vampire has slowly shifted. The Twilight book series paved the way to a more women centric vampire, in turn taking away what made a vampire so mysterious and scary. Although I can’t really knock Twilight too much since one of my first introduction’s to vampires was the “Blade” movies with Wesley Snipes and Van Helsing with Hugh Jackman, which, to be honest, these movies don’t hold up well at all. The story begins with Louis telling the boy about the death of his brother and how the unending guilt of this drove him to a path of self-destruction. In one of his death wish fueled nights he is attacked by the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. Louis divulges on his kills with Lestat and how Lestat would treat his kills with intimacy almost enjoying the pursuit of his victims as much as the kill itself. One of the things that I really liked about the story was how Anne Rice depicted children vampire’s and how they would be more vicious and dangerous than a fully-grown adult vampire. Kind of playing with what little moral compass vampires follow, one rule that they really try to avoid breaking is turning children. In many ways Louis was trying to keep the boy from thinking of immortality as something desirable.