30th Anniversary – 35mm Screening!

Based on Anne Rice’s iconic novel of the same name. The story follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Brad Pitt), as he recounts the unbelievable story of his eternal transformation and a life worse than death to the sceptic reporter, Daniel Molloy (Christian Slater). Spanning two hundred years of cruel betrayals, extreme solitude, and unquenched thirst, Louis’ grimly fascinating tale pivots around his perpetually regrettable decision to embrace the dictatorship of blood, and, above all, his maker: the seductive blonde aristocrat of death, Lestat de Lioncourt (Tom Cruise).

“The movie never makes vampirism look like anything but an endless sadness. That is its greatest strength. Vampires throughout movie history have often chortled as if they’d gotten away with something. But the first great vampire movie, NOSFERATU (1922), knew better, and so does this one…. The movie is true to the detailed vision that has informed all of Anne Rice’s novels, and which owes much to the greater taste for realism which has crept into modern horror fiction. It is a film about what it might really be like to be a vampire.” —Roger Ebert (1994)

“This is no conventional horror flick told from the point of view of mere mortals thwarting forces of supernatural evil with pointed sticks; rather, it is a morbidly fascinating insight into the lifestyle of the undead…. It is, in fact, a close-up domestic drama played as if it were a matter of life and death.” —Mark Salisbury, Empire