ThisInterview with the Vampirereview contains spoilers.
Anne Rices Interview with the Vampires A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart, is a pivotal episode.
In normal families, the kid grows up and moves on.
Thats a sticky point for vampires.
As the questions take an accusatory stance, the vampire carves quite a dent in the wood.
Its a wonderful diversion.
Much like how Lestat weaponizes cognitive dissonance, or how Louis steers his autobiographical conversations through distractions.
Three pages torn from a diary?
Why talk about horrid things like sexual assault, when there are larger lessons to be learned?
Like how to be a teenage serial killer.
That scratching fingernail etches every kill.
Its delicious, but not the cherry.
After meals, Claudia keeps leftovers, that is such bad vampire etiquette.
They play their good cop/bad cop roles to the hilt.
Louis tracks every college death and sees patterns everywhere.
Lestat insists the case is closed.
To his long-surviving predator instincts, Claudia is more than a menace, she is tacky.
Who keeps toes from a kill?
We have to wonder about what we actually learn from the wayward vampire Bruce.
Those three pages ripped from the diary are not the only secrets scattered about.
Bruce appears to confirm everything Lestat promised Claudia would find in European vampires.
But throws dark shade on what brought Lestat to the U.S. in the first place.
In the book, Louis and Lestat dress Claudia up like a doll, and treat her like one.
They avert their attention from her reality, and in the series, this lays bare their own jealousies.
This, however, is the emotional event which realigns Claudias perspective.
Lestat does not want to let go of the operatic relationship he enjoys with Louis, or did.
The slap Molloy lays on Louis is shocking, but wholly appropriate.
He cant possibly be as indignant as he puts forward.
Molloy may very well be chronicling a protracted suicide, and rooting for it.
There is something appealing about that single-shooter, X-Box, mouth-breather shit his readers crave.
After all, Charlie Manson wrote a couple good songs.
Yet, Bogosians physical acting is on par with any stunt or gratified climax in more active scenes.
The physical fight between Louis and Lestat is shot and choreographed so perfectly it doesnt even need stunt doubles.
We dont have to see the vampires to know what theyre doing.
The aftermath of their lovers quarrel renders one of the most beautiful sets in the series unrecognizable.
But its got nothing on what is kicked up from the dust.
It also further breaks ties to the novel.
It takes more than garlic and sunlight to kill a vampire.
It could also be done by dull conversation.
Interview with the Vampirereaches a turning point in A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart.
While the direction is clear, the options are still illusory.
This cannot be the last encounter before the trip abroad.
The suspense is truly killing me.
Rating:
5 out of 5
