Thirty-plus years after its original release, Neil Jordan’s Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise starring gothic vampire movie “Interview with the Vampire” is available in 4K and on 4K UHD Blu-ray. The bonus features include never-before-seen deleted scenes, as well as two special features: “Eternal Night and Deadly Light,” where Jordan and film editor Mick Audsley discuss the approach to cinematography and the gothic romanticism achieved by director of photography Philippe Rousselot. Another feature, “Interview with the Vampire: Creating the World,” with Jordan and production designer Dante Ferretti showcases the detailed sets, augmented locations and costumes of the film.
Marking the film’s release in 4K, Jordan spoke with Variety about the release, the deleted scenes and whether he’d ever consider shooting for Imax. We can restore the movie to the way we originally shot it. The last time I saw the film was on the 25th anniversary.
I asked Warner Bros. for a 35mm print. But either the cinema or the projector lights were so low, or the print had been so degraded or something, it was so dark I couldn’t see the film. So to be able to restore it, and to scan it frame by frame, is just a wonderful opportunity.
I’m glad it exists so you can basically bring a movie to life again and remind yourself why you shot it in the first place. Why is that not in the finished movie? I swear to God, I was looking at it with Mick Audsley, the editor and I was saying, “Why did we not include that?
It’s dramatic. it’s bloody, it’s tortured — it’s everything the movie is. Maybe it was for reasons of length. Or maybe the character Louis — his sense of suffering and his declarations of suffering — were all becoming a bit too much.
Anne Rice changed the perception of this thing that doesn’t exist. She took the story of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” that image of Dracula and of the vampire. She placed it in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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