With our eight week Camp marathon firmly in the rearview mirror (so long Beef! Adios Geoffrey and Famke! See you soon Gimp Daddy!), Trace and I turn to Mississippi and the quintessential gay vampire romance of our generation. Yes, folks, it’s time to celebrate Interview with the Vampire on its 25th anniversary!
Based on Anne Rice‘s bestselling novel and directed by Neil Jordan in the immediate aftermath of his Oscar winning film The Crying Game, the film finds widowed, drunk, sad sack slave owner Louis (Brad Pitt) longing for death and finding it in the arms of the vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise). They try to make the marriage work, even adopting a pint-sized bloodsucker Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) in an attempt to save the relationship. But not every bloodfest is meant to last, so Louis lights his lover on fire and takes his daughter to Europe in search of some hot Antonio Banderas action instead.
It’s all so, so gay.
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Episode 47 – Interview With The Vampire (1994)
With the start of November’s cold weather, Trace and Joe head south to Mississippi to visit our favorite bickering gay couple: Louis and Lestat and their ADORABLE adopted daughter, Claudia. That’s right, we’re back in vampire territory as we tackle Neil Jordan’s infamous adaptation of the iconic first novel in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles just in time for its 25th anniversary!
This movie is super duper gay (for 1994). The boys ponder the film’s weird development cycle, including bizarre casting decisions (Julian Sands? Cher?!), question whether Rice ruffled studio feathers and lament Pitt’s snooze-inducing performance. Joe and Trace bat heads over Cruise, but both are head over heels for Kirsten Dunst, which inspires a lengthy diatribe about her lack of recognition!
Also up for discussion: Trace’s dislike of long hair on men, the “Britishness” of Stephen Rea, prostitute tits, Letterboxd reviews of the Theatre des Vampires, and the real reason that Louis is so appealing (a HUGE dick).
In this week’s game: what would your vampiric “dark gift” be?
Cross out Interview With The Vampire!
Coming up on Wednesday: We head to space for a queer flute lesson with Ridley Scott’s misfire, Alien: Covenant!
– Joe & Trace
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