Even the Hallucinations Are Horny on ‘Interview With the Vampire’
Stating that vampires are horny is like announcing that water is wet. Whether on HBO or The CW, these supernatural beings have long been getting down with each other and their human paramours. True Blood walked, so this version of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire could run. Now, the AMC series has raced into first place with its depiction of lust that cannot be stopped by death.
Hell, even the hallucinations on Interview With the Vampire offer a masterclass in desire.
AMC’s overtly gory and gay adaptation of the 1976 Anne Rice novel immediately made its intentions clear in its first episode. The series sidestepped the homoerotic ambiguity of the 1994 movie during then-human Louis de Pointe du Lac’s (Jacob Anderson) first sexual encounter with French vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid). Their naked bodies are interlocked several feet off the ground, as if hunger and passion are fueling this flight. In the present day, Louis told journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) of the intense “feelings of intimacy it awoke within me” that have since been hard to shake.