Summary :

In a flat of San Francisco, nowadays, Malloy (Christian Slater), a journalist discovers the fantastic story of Louis (Brad Pitt) who claims to be a vampire. Its birth in the world of the night occurs in 1791, in News-Orleans, where he meets death after having sought it since the death of his wife. It is Lestat (Tom Cruise) which gives him the choice between dying and becoming a vampire like him.

Louis accepts the obscure capacity and discover the eternal life which await it, the constant thirst for fresh blood and thus the need for killing. Initially, it will rebel against this fact and will be satisfied a long time to drink the blood of rats and dogs. However this life plunges it in a total despair which irritates Lestat deeply. Louis ends up putting fires at his property.

They continue their existence somewhere else, always near to the high society where Lestat likes to find his victims. That's when Louis, increasingly sad, attacks a little girl who had just lost her mother because of the plague. He flees and leaves her for dead. However Lestat finds her and shows to Louis that she did not die yet. He then proposes him to transform her in vampire in order to have a new company which would retain Louis with him. This idea feels reluctant Louis but it lets make Lestat. Then begin a new life for these three vampires.

The girl, Claudia, prove to be creature very greedy. Every thing is well during about thirty years, but the opposite characters of Lestat and Louis often clash. Moreover, Claudia despairs not to grow. She reproaches Lestat and Louis to have make her what she is. However, she loves Louis. She decides to get rid of Lestat to remain only with Louis. She thus makes him drink blood of dead and slices the throat to him. They then give him up in a marsh.

However, he survives thanks to the reptiles present in this place. He returns to be avenged, Louis and Claudia puts fire at the house where they were with Lestat, then flee on a boat for Europe. They go in all the large European cities, searching other vampires. They do not find any until they arrive to Paris where they meet a complete colony living in a theatre.

It is there that they meet Armand (Antonio Banderas) who wishes the company of Louis. The community guesses that they killed the vampire which created them, which is a very serious crime for them. They decide to make them pay by locking up Claudia in a place where daylight will reduce her in ashes and Louis in a wall. Then, Armand saves Louis but not Claudia. By revenge, it puts fire at the theatre and kills using a scythe the vampires which try to escape.

He refuses to become the companion of Armand and starts to wander without goal in atotal and eternally inconsolable loneliness. However, he goes back to News-Orleans where he feels better. He discovers a new thing which enables him to see the sun again: the cinema. He also finds Lestat, unrecognizable, which lives locked up in a dilapidated house. He asks Louis to share his existence again, who refuses it.

Thus is completed the two hundred years account of existence. Malloy then explain to Louis that he wishes to become like him, which saddens him because his goal was opposed to that. He frightens Malloy and threat to kill him. He flees then in his car, happy to have a scoop.

It is at this time that emerges Lestat, again in good health and proposes him the alternative to die or to become like him.