Television series

Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire

Name: Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
Genre: Horror, Supernatural
Released: 2022
Cast: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Assad Zaman, Bailey Bass

A queer, blood-soaked gothic soap dressed as prestige television. Louis's decades-spanning confession to a skeptical journalist becomes less a monster story than a study in addiction, abuse and codependency, with fangs as the least frightening part. Slow-building, sumptuous and unafraid of ugliness, it's for anyone who wants vampires articulate, seductive, and monstrous in ways money and beauty can't fix.

TVMaze rating

6.6

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