1 00:03:05,585 --> 00:03:08,421 So you want me to tell you the story of my life. 2 00:03:08,655 --> 00:03:11,358 Like I said, that's what I do. I interview people. 3 00:03:11,524 --> 00:03:13,360 I'm a collector of lives. 4 00:03:13,593 --> 00:03:15,395 FM radio, KFRC. 5 00:03:15,562 --> 00:03:17,764 You'll need a lot of tape for my story. 6 00:03:17,964 --> 00:03:20,433 No problem. I got a bag full of tape. 7 00:03:22,235 --> 00:03:24,404 You followed me here, didn't you? 8 00:03:24,904 --> 00:03:26,840 Yeah, I suppose I did. 9 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:29,242 You seemed very interesting. 10 00:03:30,443 --> 00:03:32,212 This is where you live? 11 00:03:32,579 --> 00:03:35,448 No. It's just a room. 12 00:03:37,917 --> 00:03:40,186 What do you say we get started? 13 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:44,624 So, what do you do? 14 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:46,292 I'm a vampire. 15 00:03:49,195 --> 00:03:51,631 That's something I haven't heard before. 16 00:03:51,998 --> 00:03:54,300 You mean this literally, I take it? 17 00:03:54,467 --> 00:03:55,869 Absolutely. 18 00:03:56,736 --> 00:03:59,720 I was waiting for you in that alleyway. 19 00:03:59,339 --> 00:04:01,474 Watching you watching me. 20 00:04:02,409 --> 00:04:04,310 And then you began to speak. 21 00:04:05,245 --> 00:04:07,380 What a lucky break for me. 22 00:04:07,547 --> 00:04:09,449 Perhaps lucky for both of us. 23 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:15,588 You said you were... 24 00:04:15,822 --> 00:04:17,490 waiting for me. 25 00:04:17,824 --> 00:04:21,940 What were you gonna do? Kill me, drink my blood? 26 00:04:21,361 --> 00:04:22,462 Yes. 27 00:04:23,630 --> 00:04:25,131 But you needn't be concerned now. 28 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:31,104 You really believe this, don't you, that you're a vampire? 29 00:04:32,500 --> 00:04:33,907 We can't begin this way. 30 00:04:34,740 --> 00:04:35,642 Let me turn on the light. 31 00:04:36,676 --> 00:04:39,979 - I thought vampires didn't like light. - We love it. 32 00:04:41,214 --> 00:04:43,149 I only wanted to prepare you. 33 00:04:45,919 --> 00:04:49,220 - Christ! - Don't be frightened. 34 00:04:49,389 --> 00:04:51,358 I want this opportunity. 35 00:04:51,758 --> 00:04:53,360 How the hell did you do that? 36 00:04:53,660 --> 00:04:55,195 The same as you do. 37 00:04:55,929 --> 00:04:58,264 A series of simple gestures. 38 00:04:58,431 --> 00:05:00,834 Only I moved too fast for you to see. 39 00:05:02,302 --> 00:05:05,605 I'm flesh and blood, but not human. 40 00:05:06,390 --> 00:05:09,209 I haven't been human for 200 years. 41 00:05:11,111 --> 00:05:12,112 Please... 42 00:05:20,787 --> 00:05:22,789 How can I put you at ease? 43 00:05:23,323 --> 00:05:25,825 Shall we begin like David Copperfield? 44 00:05:25,992 --> 00:05:28,228 "I am born. I grew up." 45 00:05:30,263 --> 00:05:34,567 Or shall we begin when I was born to darkness, as I call it. 46 00:05:36,202 --> 00:05:38,972 That's really where we should start, don't you think? 47 00:05:41,740 --> 00:05:43,760 You're not lying, are you? 48 00:05:44,770 --> 00:05:45,745 Why should I lie? 49 00:05:47,981 --> 00:05:50,216 1791 was the year it happened. 50 00:05:55,288 --> 00:05:56,923 I was 24. 51 00:05:57,900 --> 00:05:59,920 Younger than you are now. 52 00:05:59,592 --> 00:06:02,896 But times were different then. I was a man at that age. 53 00:06:03,630 --> 00:06:07,100 The master of a large plantation, just south of New Orleans. 54 00:06:10,503 --> 00:06:13,600 I had lost my wife in childbirth. 55 00:06:13,173 --> 00:06:16,409 She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. 56 00:06:17,577 --> 00:06:19,779 I would've been happy to join them. 57 00:06:22,820 --> 00:06:24,617 I couldn't bear the pain of their loss. 58 00:06:24,951 --> 00:06:27,870 I longed to be released from it. 59 00:06:40,333 --> 00:06:42,268 I wanted to lose it all: 60 00:06:42,502 --> 00:06:43,970 My wealth... 61 00:06:44,504 --> 00:06:45,972 my estate... 62 00:06:46,573 --> 00:06:48,410 my sanity. 63 00:06:56,516 --> 00:06:58,840 How many aces are in that deck? 64 00:06:58,718 --> 00:07:00,320 Are you calling me a cheat? 65 00:07:03,623 --> 00:07:06,393 No, I'm calling you a piece of stinking offal. 66 00:07:12,265 --> 00:07:15,100 You lack the courage of your convictions. Do it. 67 00:07:15,735 --> 00:07:18,571 Most of all, I longed for death. 68 00:07:18,938 --> 00:07:20,507 I know that now. 69 00:07:21,174 --> 00:07:22,842 I invited it. 70 00:07:23,743 --> 00:07:26,312 A release from the pain of living. 71 00:07:47,567 --> 00:07:50,203 My invitation was open to anyone. 72 00:07:51,104 --> 00:07:53,273 To the whore at my side. 73 00:07:54,174 --> 00:07:56,343 To the pimp that followed. 74 00:07:58,478 --> 00:08:01,481 But it was a vampire that accepted. 75 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,576 Give me your money or you die. 76 00:09:04,544 --> 00:09:06,379 Do you still want death? 77 00:09:06,713 --> 00:09:08,682 Or have you tasted it enough? 78 00:09:08,848 --> 00:09:09,949 Enough. 79 00:09:19,693 --> 00:09:22,862 He left me there, on the banks of the Mississippi... 80 00:09:23,897 --> 00:09:26,966 somewhere between life and death. 81 00:09:45,318 --> 00:09:47,654 Who are you? What're you doing in my house? 82 00:09:48,788 --> 00:09:51,458 I've come to answer your prayers. 83 00:09:53,893 --> 00:09:57,831 Life has no meaning anymore, does it? 84 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:02,602 The wine has no taste. 85 00:10:02,769 --> 00:10:04,404 The food sickens you. 86 00:10:04,571 --> 00:10:08,441 There seems no reason for any of it, does there? 87 00:10:12,946 --> 00:10:15,348 What if I could give it back to you? 88 00:10:15,582 --> 00:10:19,190 Pluck out the pain and give you another life? 89 00:10:19,953 --> 00:10:22,188 One you could never imagine. 90 00:10:23,523 --> 00:10:26,192 And it would be for all time. 91 00:10:27,961 --> 00:10:30,196 And sickness and death... 92 00:10:30,864 --> 00:10:32,699 could never touch you again. 93 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:36,503 Don't be afraid. 94 00:10:37,270 --> 00:10:39,673 I'm going to give you the choice... 95 00:10:39,839 --> 00:10:41,410 I... 96 00:10:41,307 --> 00:10:42,776 never had. 97 00:10:52,185 --> 00:10:54,788 That morning, I was not yet a vampire... 98 00:10:55,210 --> 00:10:57,791 and I saw my last sunrise. 99 00:10:58,558 --> 00:11:00,827 I remember it completely... 100 00:11:01,494 --> 00:11:04,898 and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. 101 00:11:07,167 --> 00:11:10,503 I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time... 102 00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:12,305 as if it were the first. 103 00:11:16,910 --> 00:11:19,679 And then I said farewell to sunlight... 104 00:11:19,846 --> 00:11:23,490 and set out to become what I became. 105 00:11:43,403 --> 00:11:46,239 Have you said your goodbyes to the light? 106 00:12:08,628 --> 00:12:11,798 I've drained you to the point of death. 107 00:12:13,633 --> 00:12:16,469 If I leave you here, you'll die. 108 00:12:18,538 --> 00:12:19,706 Or... 109 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,410 you can be young always, my friend... 110 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:26,579 as we are now. 111 00:12:28,810 --> 00:12:29,983 But you must tell me... 112 00:12:30,583 --> 00:12:32,485 will you come or no? 113 00:12:37,900 --> 00:12:37,590 Yes. 114 00:13:48,395 --> 00:13:50,230 Your body's dying. 115 00:13:50,563 --> 00:13:52,232 Pay no attention. 116 00:13:52,899 --> 00:13:54,334 It happens to us all. 117 00:14:24,898 --> 00:14:25,899 Now, look... 118 00:14:26,660 --> 00:14:28,201 with your vampire eyes. 119 00:14:46,953 --> 00:14:48,388 What did you see? 120 00:14:49,389 --> 00:14:51,458 No words can describe it. 121 00:14:53,126 --> 00:14:55,628 Might as well ask heaven what it sees. 122 00:14:55,795 --> 00:14:57,564 No human can know. 123 00:14:59,650 --> 00:15:01,634 The statue seemed to move, but didn't. 124 00:15:02,235 --> 00:15:05,138 The world had changed, yet stayed the same. 125 00:15:06,973 --> 00:15:10,477 I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night. 126 00:15:16,249 --> 00:15:18,585 Perhaps you'd like another cigarette? 127 00:15:19,819 --> 00:15:22,155 I would. It's not bothering you, is it? 128 00:15:22,756 --> 00:15:26,920 I don't assume it would. It's not like you'll die from cancer. 129 00:15:26,259 --> 00:15:28,995 No. I don't think so. 130 00:15:31,431 --> 00:15:33,900 - What about crucifixes? - Crucifixes? 131 00:15:34,670 --> 00:15:35,301 Can you look at them? 132 00:15:35,669 --> 00:15:38,505 Actually, I'm quite fond of looking at crucifixes. 133 00:15:39,506 --> 00:15:41,508 And the stake through the heart? 134 00:15:41,675 --> 00:15:42,776 Nonsense. 135 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:44,110 And coffins? 136 00:15:44,978 --> 00:15:46,312 Coffins. 137 00:15:46,513 --> 00:15:48,748 Coffins, unfortunately, are a necessity. 138 00:15:51,985 --> 00:15:53,353 Don't worry. 139 00:15:54,354 --> 00:15:55,522 Soon... 140 00:15:56,220 --> 00:15:59,459 you'll be sleeping as soundly as you've ever slept. 141 00:16:01,161 --> 00:16:03,196 And when you awake... 142 00:16:03,863 --> 00:16:05,465 I'll be waiting for you... 143 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,868 and so will all the world. 144 00:16:17,977 --> 00:16:21,314 Blood, I was to find, was a necessity as well. 145 00:16:22,182 --> 00:16:24,184 I awoke the next evening with a hunger... 146 00:16:24,351 --> 00:16:25,952 I had never felt. 147 00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:30,560 Once you taste this... 148 00:16:30,223 --> 00:16:32,726 you'll never go to another tavern again. 149 00:16:33,727 --> 00:16:35,395 You think so? 150 00:16:36,563 --> 00:16:39,666 But what if I'd rather taste your lips? 151 00:16:39,899 --> 00:16:42,535 My lips are even sweeter still. 152 00:16:58,184 --> 00:17:00,200 My friend... 153 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,422 should taste those lips. 154 00:17:03,890 --> 00:17:04,900 Is his... 155 00:17:04,391 --> 00:17:05,525 kiss... 156 00:17:05,859 --> 00:17:08,428 as deep as yours? 157 00:17:09,763 --> 00:17:11,865 Deeper, ma chérie. 158 00:17:23,777 --> 00:17:25,812 I will not take her life. 159 00:17:27,470 --> 00:17:28,782 I've done it for you. 160 00:17:31,751 --> 00:17:33,253 She's dead... 161 00:17:34,254 --> 00:17:36,122 as a doornail, my friend. 162 00:17:43,830 --> 00:17:46,666 It's so easy, you almost feel sorry for them. 163 00:17:53,740 --> 00:17:57,777 You'll get used to killing. Just forget about that mortal coil. 164 00:17:58,511 --> 00:18:00,847 You'll become accustomed to it, all too quickly. 165 00:18:09,522 --> 00:18:10,824 Are you not hungry, sir? 166 00:18:12,959 --> 00:18:14,761 He could eat the whole colony. 167 00:18:33,813 --> 00:18:34,848 I will finish it. 168 00:18:35,150 --> 00:18:36,216 Now leave us. 169 00:18:44,391 --> 00:18:45,892 Can't you pretend, you fool? 170 00:18:46,726 --> 00:18:48,728 Don't give the game away. 171 00:18:49,620 --> 00:18:51,398 We're lucky to have such a home. 172 00:19:01,174 --> 00:19:03,677 Pretend to drink, at least. 173 00:19:08,515 --> 00:19:11,184 Such fine crystal shouldn't go to waste. 174 00:19:32,372 --> 00:19:33,573 I know. 175 00:19:33,873 --> 00:19:35,842 It gets cold so quickly. 176 00:19:36,209 --> 00:19:39,379 We can live like this? Off the blood of animals? 177 00:19:39,546 --> 00:19:42,449 I wouldn't call it living. Call it surviving. 178 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:45,418 Useful trick if you're on a ship for a month. 179 00:19:48,621 --> 00:19:51,524 There's nothing in this world now that doesn't hold some... 180 00:19:51,691 --> 00:19:52,959 Fascination. 181 00:19:54,127 --> 00:19:55,228 Yes. 182 00:19:56,463 --> 00:19:59,199 - I'm bored with this prattle. - We can live without killing. 183 00:19:59,366 --> 00:20:01,601 - It's possible. - Anything is possible. 184 00:20:02,736 --> 00:20:04,738 But just try it for a week. 185 00:20:05,138 --> 00:20:08,808 Come into New Orleans and let me show you some real sport. 186 00:20:19,819 --> 00:20:23,156 Lestat killed two, sometimes three a night. 187 00:20:23,990 --> 00:20:25,759 A fresh young girl... 188 00:20:25,992 --> 00:20:28,728 was his favorite for the first of the evening. 189 00:20:29,496 --> 00:20:32,999 For seconds, he preferred a gilded, beautiful youth. 190 00:20:34,601 --> 00:20:38,400 But the snob in him loved to hunt in society. 191 00:20:38,672 --> 00:20:41,808 The blood of the aristocrat thrilled him best of all. 192 00:20:42,942 --> 00:20:45,612 The trick is not to think about it. 193 00:20:45,945 --> 00:20:47,280 You see that one? 194 00:20:47,514 --> 00:20:48,848 Widow St. Clair. 195 00:20:49,182 --> 00:20:53,453 She had that gorgeous young fop murder her husband. 196 00:20:53,620 --> 00:20:54,688 How do you know? 197 00:20:56,589 --> 00:21:02,280 Read her thoughts. 198 00:21:07,867 --> 00:21:09,202 I can't. 199 00:21:10,970 --> 00:21:13,640 The dark gift is different for each of us. 200 00:21:13,973 --> 00:21:18,144 But one thing is true of everyone. We grow stronger as we go along. 201 00:21:19,450 --> 00:21:21,470 Just take my word for it. 202 00:21:22,215 --> 00:21:24,684 She blamed a slave for his murder. 203 00:21:25,510 --> 00:21:27,153 Imagine what they did to him. 204 00:21:27,487 --> 00:21:30,557 Evil-doers are easier, and they taste better. 205 00:22:02,889 --> 00:22:04,391 Where are we going? 206 00:22:11,931 --> 00:22:13,990 Nowhere. 207 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,103 Now, young man, you really amaze me. 208 00:22:20,106 --> 00:22:22,876 I'm old enough to be your grandmother. 209 00:22:37,557 --> 00:22:39,959 Oh, yes, that's the melody. 210 00:22:40,460 --> 00:22:42,128 I remember it. 211 00:22:53,940 --> 00:22:55,141 Murderer! 212 00:22:56,242 --> 00:22:57,410 My little papillons. 213 00:22:57,577 --> 00:22:59,612 My butterflies, he killed them! 214 00:22:59,813 --> 00:23:01,915 Oh, no! No! 215 00:23:03,983 --> 00:23:06,152 Whining coward of a vampire... 216 00:23:06,319 --> 00:23:09,723 who prowls killing rats and poodles! You could've finished us both. 217 00:23:09,889 --> 00:23:11,257 You've condemned me to hell! 218 00:23:11,558 --> 00:23:12,892 I don't know any hell. 219 00:23:18,732 --> 00:23:19,833 That's more like it. 220 00:23:20,233 --> 00:23:21,568 Anger! Fury! 221 00:23:21,901 --> 00:23:23,670 That's why I chose you. 222 00:23:29,509 --> 00:23:31,845 But you can't kill me, Louis. 223 00:23:38,852 --> 00:23:39,953 Feed... 224 00:23:40,687 --> 00:23:42,288 on what you will. 225 00:23:42,856 --> 00:23:45,492 Rats, chickens, poodles. 226 00:23:47,260 --> 00:23:49,162 I'll leave you to it... 227 00:23:49,329 --> 00:23:51,164 and watch you come around. 228 00:23:51,798 --> 00:23:55,335 Just remember: Life without me... 229 00:23:55,502 --> 00:23:58,400 would be even more unbearable. 230 00:24:57,731 --> 00:24:59,699 Consider yourself lucky. 231 00:25:00,767 --> 00:25:02,936 In Paris, a vampire must be clever... 232 00:25:03,103 --> 00:25:05,872 - for many reasons. - Paris? 233 00:25:06,390 --> 00:25:09,109 Here all one needs is a pair of fangs. 234 00:25:10,110 --> 00:25:11,745 You came from Paris? 235 00:25:11,911 --> 00:25:13,947 As did the one who made me. 236 00:25:16,490 --> 00:25:19,219 Tell me about him. You must've learned something from him. 237 00:25:21,788 --> 00:25:24,124 I learned absolutely nothing. 238 00:25:25,191 --> 00:25:27,627 I wasn't given a choice, remember? 239 00:25:28,395 --> 00:25:30,797 You must know something about the meaning of it all. 240 00:25:30,964 --> 00:25:33,633 Why? Why should I know these things? 241 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:35,468 Do you know them? 242 00:25:35,635 --> 00:25:36,803 That noise... 243 00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:38,872 it's driving me mad. That noise! 244 00:25:39,239 --> 00:25:42,108 We've been here for weeks with nothing but that noise. 245 00:25:42,308 --> 00:25:44,770 They know about us. 246 00:25:44,411 --> 00:25:48,314 They watch us dine on empty plates and drink from empty glasses. 247 00:25:49,820 --> 00:25:51,651 Come to New Orleans, then. 248 00:25:52,585 --> 00:25:53,920 The Paris Opera's in town. 249 00:25:54,870 --> 00:25:56,823 We can try some French cuisine. 250 00:25:58,324 --> 00:26:01,428 Forgive me if I have a lingering respect for life. 251 00:26:04,164 --> 00:26:06,599 You'll soon run out of chickens, Louis. 252 00:26:39,532 --> 00:26:40,667 Monsieur Louis? 253 00:26:41,801 --> 00:26:43,636 You don't want any supper? 254 00:26:45,271 --> 00:26:46,339 No, ma chérie. 255 00:26:47,674 --> 00:26:49,843 We're worried about you, master. 256 00:26:51,978 --> 00:26:54,547 When is it that you go riding in the field? 257 00:26:55,815 --> 00:26:58,651 And how long since you've been to the slave quarter? 258 00:27:01,888 --> 00:27:03,890 Everywhere there is death. 259 00:27:06,526 --> 00:27:08,895 Are you still our master at all? 260 00:27:09,129 --> 00:27:11,310 That will be all, Yvette. 261 00:27:11,731 --> 00:27:14,367 I will not go unless you listen to me. 262 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:18,571 You must send away this friend of yours. 263 00:27:19,806 --> 00:27:22,409 The slaves are all frightened of him... 264 00:27:23,910 --> 00:27:26,790 and they are frightened of you. 265 00:27:31,584 --> 00:27:33,753 I'm frightened of myself. 266 00:28:22,102 --> 00:28:23,870 Hear me now. 267 00:28:24,204 --> 00:28:25,772 This place is cursed. 268 00:28:26,306 --> 00:28:27,640 Damned. 269 00:28:27,974 --> 00:28:30,577 And, yes, your master is the devil! 270 00:28:31,578 --> 00:28:34,147 Get out while you can. You're all free. 271 00:28:34,647 --> 00:28:36,116 Do you hear me? 272 00:28:37,150 --> 00:28:39,119 Run! Run! 273 00:28:39,452 --> 00:28:41,454 Save yourselves! 274 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:31,705 Perfect! Perfect! 275 00:29:32,205 --> 00:29:35,875 Just burn the place! Burn everything we own! 276 00:29:36,276 --> 00:29:38,545 Have us living in a field, like cattle! 277 00:29:38,712 --> 00:29:40,714 You thought you could have it all. 278 00:29:40,947 --> 00:29:42,115 Shut up, Louis! 279 00:29:43,550 --> 00:29:44,684 Come on! 280 00:30:06,390 --> 00:30:07,574 Where are we? 281 00:30:08,408 --> 00:30:11,770 Where do you think, my idiot friend? 282 00:30:11,244 --> 00:30:13,747 We're in a nice, filthy cemetery. 283 00:30:14,581 --> 00:30:18,685 Does this make you happy? Is this fitting? Proper enough? 284 00:30:19,419 --> 00:30:21,870 We belong in hell. 285 00:30:21,354 --> 00:30:23,560 What if there is no hell? 286 00:30:23,256 --> 00:30:26,226 Or they don't want us there? Ever think of that? 287 00:30:28,928 --> 00:30:30,363 But there was a hell. 288 00:30:30,864 --> 00:30:33,933 And no matter where we moved to, I was in it. 289 00:30:35,402 --> 00:30:38,104 We rented rooms on the waterfront of New Orleans. 290 00:30:39,939 --> 00:30:41,608 Your skin is icy. 291 00:30:43,643 --> 00:30:45,845 Your friend has no head for wine. 292 00:30:50,150 --> 00:30:51,818 Don't worry. 293 00:30:52,285 --> 00:30:55,855 I can warm that cold skin of yours better than she can. 294 00:30:56,189 --> 00:30:57,624 Do you think so? 295 00:30:59,125 --> 00:31:00,193 Why... 296 00:31:00,694 --> 00:31:02,362 you're warm now. 297 00:31:03,530 --> 00:31:05,532 But the price is high. 298 00:31:05,765 --> 00:31:08,268 Your pretty friend, I exhausted her. 299 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:13,306 Soft. 300 00:31:15,442 --> 00:31:17,110 So soft. 301 00:31:34,194 --> 00:31:36,196 Should we put out the light? 302 00:31:41,735 --> 00:31:43,436 And then put out the light. 303 00:31:58,551 --> 00:32:00,954 But once put out thy light... 304 00:32:02,455 --> 00:32:03,957 I cannot... 305 00:32:04,891 --> 00:32:07,460 give it vital breath again. 306 00:32:09,295 --> 00:32:11,297 It needs must wither. 307 00:32:23,610 --> 00:32:24,878 For you, Louis. 308 00:32:25,111 --> 00:32:26,813 You can pretend it's wine. 309 00:32:37,157 --> 00:32:39,993 - She's not dead. - You're in love with your mortal nature. 310 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,128 You resist what can bring you peace. 311 00:32:42,328 --> 00:32:43,596 You call this peace? 312 00:32:43,797 --> 00:32:47,333 We're predators, whose all-seeing eyes give them detachment! 313 00:32:47,734 --> 00:32:50,303 - The girl, Lestat! - Then take her. End that hunger! 314 00:32:50,503 --> 00:32:51,504 No! 315 00:32:56,843 --> 00:32:59,512 Now, my child. 316 00:33:01,815 --> 00:33:04,184 You're tired, you want to sleep! 317 00:33:13,793 --> 00:33:15,362 It's a coffin! 318 00:33:15,528 --> 00:33:17,163 A coffin! Let me out! 319 00:33:17,997 --> 00:33:19,466 I'm not dead! 320 00:33:19,632 --> 00:33:23,970 It's your coffin, enjoy it. Most of us never get to know what it feels like. 321 00:33:24,671 --> 00:33:25,805 Why do you do this? 322 00:33:25,972 --> 00:33:28,141 I like to do it. I enjoy it. 323 00:33:28,608 --> 00:33:30,877 Take your aesthete's taste to purer things. 324 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:33,646 Kill them swiftly if you will, but do it! 325 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,549 For do not doubt you are a killer! 326 00:33:43,990 --> 00:33:46,126 - What's that, my love? - It's a coffin. 327 00:33:46,659 --> 00:33:49,529 So it is. You must be dead. 328 00:33:51,164 --> 00:33:52,899 - I'm not dead, am I? - No. 329 00:33:53,233 --> 00:33:54,501 You're not dead. 330 00:33:54,667 --> 00:33:55,869 Not yet. 331 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,500 - You finish this. Finish this now! - You finish it. 332 00:33:59,172 --> 00:34:00,807 Save me from him. 333 00:34:01,508 --> 00:34:02,509 Save me! 334 00:34:04,244 --> 00:34:05,679 You'll let me go? 335 00:34:06,413 --> 00:34:08,515 I can't die like this. 336 00:34:08,848 --> 00:34:09,883 I need a priest. 337 00:34:10,183 --> 00:34:12,886 My friend is a priest. He'll hear your sins before you die. 338 00:34:13,530 --> 00:34:15,880 Unless I make her one of us. 339 00:34:15,422 --> 00:34:17,757 - No! - Then take her, Louis. 340 00:34:17,924 --> 00:34:20,427 End her suffering. End yours! 341 00:34:21,594 --> 00:34:22,595 No. 342 00:34:41,681 --> 00:34:42,782 Now... 343 00:34:43,450 --> 00:34:47,620 are you happy, Louis? 344 00:34:49,890 --> 00:34:50,290 My God. 345 00:34:52,225 --> 00:34:56,129 To think you are all I have to learn from. 346 00:35:00,660 --> 00:35:01,801 In the Old World... 347 00:35:02,969 --> 00:35:05,638 they called it the "dark gift." 348 00:35:08,375 --> 00:35:10,377 And I gave it to you. 349 00:35:32,432 --> 00:35:35,101 Don't go that way, monsieur. It's the plague. 350 00:35:35,669 --> 00:35:38,304 - Go back the way you came. - The way I came... 351 00:35:54,870 --> 00:35:55,188 Mama. 352 00:36:19,546 --> 00:36:21,181 Please help us. 353 00:36:21,848 --> 00:36:24,217 Papa left us and didn't come back. 354 00:36:32,580 --> 00:36:34,694 Please, wake Mama, monsieur. 355 00:37:01,721 --> 00:37:03,857 My philosopher. My martyr. 356 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:06,260 "Never take a human life." 357 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,430 Oh, yes. This calls for a celebration. 358 00:37:20,273 --> 00:37:23,760 There's still life in the old lady yet! 359 00:37:26,446 --> 00:37:27,781 Come back! 360 00:37:28,114 --> 00:37:29,382 You are what you are! 361 00:37:32,352 --> 00:37:34,120 Merciful death. 362 00:37:34,954 --> 00:37:37,390 How you love your precious guilt. 363 00:37:47,467 --> 00:37:50,870 Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. 364 00:37:51,370 --> 00:37:53,707 And, as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. 365 00:37:54,274 --> 00:37:55,975 I knew peace only when I killed. 366 00:37:56,142 --> 00:37:58,578 When I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm... 367 00:37:58,745 --> 00:38:00,914 I knew what peace could be. 368 00:38:34,647 --> 00:38:38,651 All I need to find you, Louis, is follow the corpses of rats. 369 00:38:47,270 --> 00:38:48,928 Pain is terrible for you. 370 00:38:50,163 --> 00:38:53,867 You feel it like no other creature, because you're a vampire. 371 00:38:55,602 --> 00:38:57,837 You don't want it to go on. 372 00:38:58,400 --> 00:38:59,172 No. 373 00:39:02,208 --> 00:39:05,345 Then do what it is in your nature to do... 374 00:39:06,212 --> 00:39:09,683 and you will feel as you felt with that child in your arms. 375 00:39:11,685 --> 00:39:13,653 Evil is a point of view. 376 00:39:14,554 --> 00:39:16,556 God kills indiscriminately... 377 00:39:17,891 --> 00:39:19,726 and so shall we. 378 00:39:20,727 --> 00:39:24,831 For no creatures under God are as we are. None so like him... 379 00:39:25,699 --> 00:39:26,900 as ourselves. 380 00:39:29,402 --> 00:39:31,571 I have a gift for you. 381 00:39:33,173 --> 00:39:34,507 Come. 382 00:39:38,411 --> 00:39:39,412 Please. 383 00:39:52,525 --> 00:39:54,861 - She's here. - What are you saying? 384 00:39:56,396 --> 00:39:57,764 You need... 385 00:39:58,398 --> 00:39:59,766 company... 386 00:39:59,933 --> 00:40:02,168 more congenial than mine. 387 00:40:07,340 --> 00:40:09,342 Remember how you wanted her? 388 00:40:10,276 --> 00:40:11,911 The taste of her? 389 00:40:13,847 --> 00:40:15,949 I thought I'd killed her. 390 00:40:18,918 --> 00:40:20,286 Don't worry. 391 00:40:22,122 --> 00:40:23,957 Your conscience is clear. 392 00:40:37,103 --> 00:40:37,637 Claudia. 393 00:40:43,743 --> 00:40:45,780 Yes. 394 00:40:45,245 --> 00:40:46,713 Listen to me. 395 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,382 You're ill, my precious. 396 00:40:49,983 --> 00:40:53,953 And I'm going to give you what you need to get well. 397 00:41:06,232 --> 00:41:07,400 No. 398 00:41:08,234 --> 00:41:10,700 You want her to die, then? 399 00:41:25,185 --> 00:41:26,419 That's it. 400 00:41:28,121 --> 00:41:28,621 Yes. 401 00:41:41,334 --> 00:41:42,369 Stop. 402 00:41:44,838 --> 00:41:46,206 Stop! 403 00:41:46,506 --> 00:41:47,674 Enough! 404 00:42:27,414 --> 00:42:28,748 I want some more. 405 00:42:28,915 --> 00:42:31,840 Of course you want more. 406 00:43:01,114 --> 00:43:02,949 Gently, chérie. 407 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:05,785 They're so innocent. 408 00:43:07,454 --> 00:43:09,456 They must not be made to suffer. 409 00:43:10,924 --> 00:43:12,125 Good. 410 00:43:14,294 --> 00:43:15,462 Yes. 411 00:43:15,795 --> 00:43:17,630 All right, now. 412 00:43:17,230 --> 00:43:18,365 Stop. 413 00:43:21,101 --> 00:43:23,690 That's enough, chérie. 414 00:43:23,603 --> 00:43:26,206 You must stop before the heart stops. 415 00:43:27,407 --> 00:43:29,809 - I want some more. - I know. 416 00:43:30,210 --> 00:43:34,647 But it's best in the beginning, lest the death takes you down with it. 417 00:43:36,316 --> 00:43:38,585 You've done very well. Look at you. 418 00:43:38,818 --> 00:43:41,154 Not a drop spilt. Very good. 419 00:43:43,823 --> 00:43:45,258 Where is Mama? 420 00:43:46,659 --> 00:43:48,428 Mama. 421 00:43:48,828 --> 00:43:52,298 Mama's gone to heaven, chérie... 422 00:43:52,465 --> 00:43:54,968 like that sweet lady, right there. 423 00:43:55,835 --> 00:43:57,337 They all go to heaven. 424 00:43:57,837 --> 00:44:00,173 All but us. 425 00:44:00,507 --> 00:44:02,842 Do you want to frighten our daughter? 426 00:44:03,900 --> 00:44:04,511 I'm not your daughter. 427 00:44:04,678 --> 00:44:06,246 Oh, yes, you are. 428 00:44:06,846 --> 00:44:09,150 You're my and Louis' daughter now. 429 00:44:09,582 --> 00:44:12,318 You see, Louis was going to leave us. 430 00:44:13,486 --> 00:44:15,321 He was going to go away. 431 00:44:16,322 --> 00:44:17,657 But now he's not. 432 00:44:18,692 --> 00:44:21,695 Now he's going to stay and make you happy. 433 00:44:24,698 --> 00:44:25,832 Louis. 434 00:44:31,838 --> 00:44:33,506 You fiend. 435 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,876 One happy family. 436 00:44:45,652 --> 00:44:47,520 He did it to make you stay with him? 437 00:44:47,721 --> 00:44:48,988 Perhaps. 438 00:44:49,222 --> 00:44:50,457 He knew me. 439 00:44:50,623 --> 00:44:53,393 He knew I would love her more than the waking world. 440 00:44:55,362 --> 00:44:57,197 But there was more to it. 441 00:44:57,564 --> 00:45:00,967 He lavished affection on her, there is no doubt about that. 442 00:45:02,369 --> 00:45:06,339 Perhaps, in the end, he did it because he was lonely too. 443 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,509 Monsieur! I need more light. 444 00:45:09,676 --> 00:45:12,245 - I'll go blind without another lamp. - She'll go blind. 445 00:45:12,412 --> 00:45:14,714 Or let me fit this child during the day. 446 00:45:16,490 --> 00:45:19,519 I am afraid, madame, my days are sacrosanct. 447 00:45:20,353 --> 00:45:22,322 A little child, she was. 448 00:45:22,555 --> 00:45:24,491 But also a fierce killer... 449 00:45:24,691 --> 00:45:29,929 now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding. 450 00:45:31,431 --> 00:45:33,199 Let me kiss it better. 451 00:45:43,843 --> 00:45:46,346 Claudia. Claudia! 452 00:45:47,470 --> 00:45:48,448 Now... 453 00:45:48,615 --> 00:45:52,285 who will we get to finish your dress? Be practical! 454 00:45:52,452 --> 00:45:54,587 Remember, never in our home. 455 00:45:55,722 --> 00:45:58,358 She slept in my coffin at first... 456 00:45:58,525 --> 00:46:01,127 curling her little fingers around my hair... 457 00:46:01,795 --> 00:46:04,431 till the day came when she wanted one of her own. 458 00:46:12,138 --> 00:46:14,407 But still, whenever she awoke... 459 00:46:14,574 --> 00:46:16,443 she would crawl into mine. 460 00:46:27,754 --> 00:46:31,424 They died fast in those days, before she learned to play with them... 461 00:46:31,591 --> 00:46:34,994 to delay the moment till she had taken what she wanted. 462 00:46:48,908 --> 00:46:51,177 Why are you crying, child? 463 00:46:51,344 --> 00:46:53,130 Are you lost, my love? 464 00:46:53,413 --> 00:46:55,682 Mama! 465 00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:57,684 Hush, now, don't cry. 466 00:46:57,851 --> 00:47:00,353 - We'll find her. - Mama. 467 00:47:06,493 --> 00:47:08,328 Mind the thumb, girl. Mind the thumb. 468 00:47:08,495 --> 00:47:09,696 That little digit. 469 00:47:24,511 --> 00:47:26,546 They're expensive, my dear. 470 00:47:28,381 --> 00:47:29,883 Maybe too expensive... 471 00:47:30,500 --> 00:47:32,185 for a young girl like you. 472 00:47:45,865 --> 00:47:48,340 Claudia! What have we told you? 473 00:47:48,702 --> 00:47:50,403 Never in the house. 474 00:47:52,739 --> 00:47:54,240 Give me some room. 475 00:47:55,575 --> 00:47:57,143 To me, she was a child. 476 00:47:57,310 --> 00:47:59,679 But to Lestat, a pupil... 477 00:47:59,979 --> 00:48:03,216 an infant prodigy, with a lust for killing that matched his own. 478 00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:07,870 Together, they finished off whole families. 479 00:48:14,227 --> 00:48:15,995 Wonderful, wonderful. 480 00:48:16,196 --> 00:48:18,765 Now try something on a more somber note. 481 00:48:32,746 --> 00:48:35,615 Time can pass quickly for mortals when they're happy. 482 00:48:35,782 --> 00:48:37,751 With us, it was the same. 483 00:48:38,180 --> 00:48:41,210 The years flew by like minutes. The city grew. 484 00:48:41,521 --> 00:48:43,623 Sailboats gave way to steamships... 485 00:48:43,790 --> 00:48:47,560 disgorging an endless menu of magnificent strangers. 486 00:48:48,695 --> 00:48:50,797 A new world had sprung up around us. 487 00:48:50,964 --> 00:48:53,299 And we were all Americans now. 488 00:49:01,408 --> 00:49:03,376 This filthy modern tide. 489 00:49:03,977 --> 00:49:08,381 What I wouldn't give for a drop of old-fashioned Creole blood. 490 00:49:08,548 --> 00:49:10,750 Yankees are not to your taste? 491 00:49:11,510 --> 00:49:12,385 Their Democratic flavor... 492 00:49:12,552 --> 00:49:14,554 doesn't suit my palate, Louis. 493 00:49:28,635 --> 00:49:30,937 Now, that is pure Creole. 494 00:49:33,973 --> 00:49:36,643 Trust Claudia to have found her. 495 00:49:39,379 --> 00:49:40,447 What? 496 00:49:41,147 --> 00:49:42,549 Don't you want her? 497 00:49:43,490 --> 00:49:44,718 I want to be her. 498 00:49:46,186 --> 00:49:48,688 Can I, Louis? Be like her one day? 499 00:49:52,250 --> 00:49:54,527 Mon dieu. More melancholy nonsense. 500 00:49:54,694 --> 00:49:58,310 You grow more like Louis every day. Soon you'll be eating rats. 501 00:50:00,333 --> 00:50:02,869 Rats? When did you eat rats, Louis? 502 00:50:03,837 --> 00:50:05,839 It was a long, long time ago. 503 00:50:06,390 --> 00:50:07,507 Before you were born. 504 00:50:09,900 --> 00:50:10,877 And I don't recommend them. 505 00:50:13,813 --> 00:50:18,385 Thirty years had passed, yet her body remained that of an eternal child. 506 00:50:19,352 --> 00:50:23,623 Her eyes alone told the story of her age, staring from under her curls... 507 00:50:23,790 --> 00:50:27,961 with a questioning that would one day need an answer. 508 00:50:37,871 --> 00:50:39,172 Another doll. 509 00:50:39,339 --> 00:50:41,408 I have dozens, you realize. 510 00:50:42,475 --> 00:50:44,678 I thought you could use one more. 511 00:50:45,412 --> 00:50:47,547 Why always on this night? 512 00:50:48,748 --> 00:50:50,216 What do you mean? 513 00:50:50,383 --> 00:50:53,420 You always give me a doll on the same night of the year. 514 00:50:53,586 --> 00:50:56,856 I didn't realize. 515 00:50:57,230 --> 00:50:58,758 Is this my birthday? 516 00:51:03,496 --> 00:51:05,498 You dress me like a doll. 517 00:51:05,932 --> 00:51:08,601 You make my hair like a doll. Why? 518 00:51:09,569 --> 00:51:12,172 Some of these, Claudia, are so old... 519 00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:14,441 tattered. 520 00:51:15,608 --> 00:51:18,445 - You should throw them away. - I will, then! 521 00:51:23,850 --> 00:51:24,984 Claudia. 522 00:51:25,352 --> 00:51:27,200 Claudia. Claudia! 523 00:51:28,210 --> 00:51:29,356 What have you done? 524 00:51:29,656 --> 00:51:31,324 What you told me to do! 525 00:51:31,491 --> 00:51:33,693 - You leave a corpse here to rot? - I wanted her! 526 00:51:33,860 --> 00:51:35,528 I wanted to be her! 527 00:51:35,695 --> 00:51:36,863 She's mad! 528 00:51:37,163 --> 00:51:39,866 She pollutes the very house we live in! 529 00:51:41,101 --> 00:51:43,470 Do you want me to be a doll forever? 530 00:51:45,171 --> 00:51:46,206 Claudia, don't. 531 00:51:46,373 --> 00:51:48,441 Why not? Can't I change... 532 00:51:48,708 --> 00:51:50,143 like everyone else? 533 00:52:16,703 --> 00:52:21,141 Which one of you did it? 534 00:52:21,341 --> 00:52:24,100 Which one of you made me the way I am? 535 00:52:24,177 --> 00:52:25,545 What you are? 536 00:52:25,745 --> 00:52:29,820 A vampire gone insane, that pollutes its own bed. 537 00:52:29,249 --> 00:52:31,840 And if I cut my hair again? 538 00:52:31,251 --> 00:52:33,530 It will grow back again. 539 00:52:33,219 --> 00:52:34,754 But it wasn't always so. 540 00:52:34,921 --> 00:52:37,824 I had a mother once. And Louis, he had a wife. 541 00:52:38,258 --> 00:52:40,600 He was mortal, same as she. 542 00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,395 - And so was I! - Claudia! 543 00:52:42,562 --> 00:52:44,264 You made us what we are, didn't you? 544 00:52:44,431 --> 00:52:47,167 - Stop her, Louis. - Did you do it to me? 545 00:52:54,507 --> 00:52:55,842 How did you do it? 546 00:52:56,420 --> 00:52:58,780 And why should I tell you? 547 00:52:58,912 --> 00:53:00,847 It's in my power. 548 00:53:01,514 --> 00:53:03,116 Why yours alone? 549 00:53:03,283 --> 00:53:05,180 Tell me how it was done. 550 00:53:05,518 --> 00:53:08,188 Be glad I made you what you are. 551 00:53:10,190 --> 00:53:12,125 You'd be dead now if I hadn't. 552 00:53:12,292 --> 00:53:13,626 Like that damned corpse. 553 00:53:13,793 --> 00:53:15,950 Now get rid of it! 554 00:53:15,762 --> 00:53:17,364 You get rid of it. 555 00:53:28,808 --> 00:53:30,276 Louis, why? 556 00:53:30,477 --> 00:53:32,245 You've got to tell me. 557 00:53:38,818 --> 00:53:40,653 You see the old woman? 558 00:53:41,788 --> 00:53:43,623 That will never happen to you. 559 00:53:44,791 --> 00:53:46,626 You will never grow old. 560 00:53:47,260 --> 00:53:48,995 And you will never die. 561 00:53:50,597 --> 00:53:53,733 And it means something else too, doesn't it? 562 00:53:57,904 --> 00:53:59,906 I shall never, ever grow up. 563 00:54:05,245 --> 00:54:06,613 I hate him. 564 00:54:09,249 --> 00:54:12,118 Tell me how it came to be that I am this... 565 00:54:13,186 --> 00:54:14,421 thing. 566 00:54:20,460 --> 00:54:23,463 For thirty years I'd avoided that place. 567 00:54:25,310 --> 00:54:27,367 Yet I found my way back there... 568 00:54:27,634 --> 00:54:29,969 with hardly an upward glance. 569 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,722 You fed on me? 570 00:54:49,656 --> 00:54:50,824 Yes. 571 00:54:52,559 --> 00:54:54,527 And he found me with you. 572 00:54:56,896 --> 00:55:00,330 Then he cut his wrist and fed you from him... 573 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,302 and you were a vampire then... 574 00:55:02,635 --> 00:55:05,138 and have been every night thereafter. 575 00:55:08,475 --> 00:55:09,909 You both did it. 576 00:55:10,977 --> 00:55:12,712 I took your life. 577 00:55:15,248 --> 00:55:17,150 He gave you another one. 578 00:55:18,885 --> 00:55:20,420 And here it is. 579 00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:23,223 And I hate you both. 580 00:55:35,201 --> 00:55:36,936 I walked all night. 581 00:55:38,104 --> 00:55:40,607 I walked as I walked years before... 582 00:55:40,774 --> 00:55:43,677 when my mind swam with guilt at the thought of killing. 583 00:55:45,512 --> 00:55:48,782 I thought of all the things I had done and couldn't undo. 584 00:55:50,583 --> 00:55:52,952 And I longed for one second's peace. 585 00:56:02,529 --> 00:56:04,564 Locked together in hatred. 586 00:56:09,636 --> 00:56:11,805 But I can't hate you, Louis. 587 00:56:18,211 --> 00:56:19,813 Louis, my love. 588 00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,117 I was mortal till you... 589 00:56:25,385 --> 00:56:27,787 gave me your immortal kiss. 590 00:56:29,589 --> 00:56:33,930 You became my mother and my father. 591 00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,262 And so I'm yours forever. 592 00:56:38,798 --> 00:56:41,401 But now it's time to end it, Louis. 593 00:56:42,802 --> 00:56:45,138 Now it's time to leave him. 594 00:56:49,900 --> 00:56:51,111 He will never let us go. 595 00:57:02,922 --> 00:57:04,157 Really? 596 00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,805 What is it now? You irritate me. Your very presence... 597 00:57:19,172 --> 00:57:20,206 irritates me. 598 00:57:20,373 --> 00:57:21,708 Does it? 599 00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:25,450 I found someone who'll be a vampire better than you both. 600 00:57:25,512 --> 00:57:27,514 Is that supposed to frighten me? 601 00:57:28,381 --> 00:57:31,351 You're spoiled, because you're an only child. 602 00:57:32,285 --> 00:57:33,687 You need a brother. 603 00:57:34,521 --> 00:57:35,722 Or I do. 604 00:57:36,656 --> 00:57:38,458 I'm weary of you both. 605 00:57:39,590 --> 00:57:41,861 I suppose we could people the world with vampires... 606 00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:43,563 the three of us. 607 00:57:44,831 --> 00:57:47,567 Not you, my little Claudia. 608 00:57:48,568 --> 00:57:50,136 You're a liar. 609 00:57:51,710 --> 00:57:53,139 But you upset my plans. 610 00:57:54,341 --> 00:57:55,842 What plans? 611 00:57:57,100 --> 00:57:58,745 I came to make peace with you. 612 00:57:59,312 --> 00:58:01,381 Even though you're the father of lies... 613 00:58:02,849 --> 00:58:05,251 I want things to be as they were. 614 00:58:06,419 --> 00:58:08,188 Stop pestering me, then. 615 00:58:09,723 --> 00:58:13,593 Oh, Lestat, I must do more than that. 616 00:58:14,994 --> 00:58:16,896 I've brought a present for you. 617 00:58:18,980 --> 00:58:22,102 Then I hope it's a beautiful woman... 618 00:58:23,236 --> 00:58:25,939 with endowments you'll never possess. 619 00:58:29,776 --> 00:58:31,911 Why do you say such things? 620 00:58:40,587 --> 00:58:42,455 You haven't fed enough. 621 00:58:43,256 --> 00:58:45,125 I can tell by your color. 622 00:58:51,798 --> 00:58:53,299 Come and see. 623 00:59:10,150 --> 00:59:12,520 Don't be angry with me. 624 00:59:12,218 --> 00:59:14,821 When I saw them, I knew they were for you. 625 00:59:16,222 --> 00:59:17,390 Drunk... 626 00:59:18,158 --> 00:59:20,760 on brandywine. A thimbleful. 627 00:59:25,331 --> 00:59:28,501 Claudia, Claudia, Claudia. 628 00:59:29,502 --> 00:59:31,171 Well, you certainly have... 629 00:59:31,338 --> 00:59:32,839 outdone yourself. 630 00:59:34,774 --> 00:59:37,344 I promise I'll get rid of the bodies. 631 00:59:51,291 --> 00:59:53,159 We forgive each other, then? 632 00:59:54,527 --> 00:59:55,762 Yes. 633 01:00:11,211 --> 01:00:12,512 Absinthe? 634 01:00:15,281 --> 01:00:17,183 You've given them absinthe? 635 01:00:17,517 --> 01:00:18,518 No. 636 01:00:18,985 --> 01:00:20,530 Laudanum. 637 01:00:21,621 --> 01:00:22,622 Laudanum? 638 01:00:22,856 --> 01:00:23,857 Yes. 639 01:00:24,457 --> 01:00:26,626 It killed them, unfortunately. 640 01:00:27,293 --> 01:00:29,362 But it keeps the blood warm. 641 01:00:33,633 --> 01:00:35,350 You let me drink... 642 01:00:37,700 --> 01:00:38,705 dead blood? 643 01:00:39,205 --> 01:00:40,874 You let me... 644 01:00:41,410 --> 01:00:42,750 drink... 645 01:00:43,376 --> 01:00:45,478 One lesson you taught me... 646 01:00:45,745 --> 01:00:47,580 never drink from the dead. 647 01:00:48,982 --> 01:00:52,519 Louis! Put me in my coffin. 648 01:00:52,819 --> 01:00:54,870 Put me in my coffin. 649 01:00:54,254 --> 01:00:55,922 I'll put you in your coffin! 650 01:01:01,428 --> 01:01:02,529 My God! 651 01:01:18,511 --> 01:01:21,114 Louis, lift me up. 652 01:01:36,196 --> 01:01:38,310 Good night, sweet prince. 653 01:01:39,766 --> 01:01:43,737 May flights of devils wing you to your rest. 654 01:01:45,138 --> 01:01:46,706 Should we burn him? 655 01:01:46,973 --> 01:01:48,208 Bury him? 656 01:01:48,575 --> 01:01:50,410 What would he have liked? 657 01:01:54,447 --> 01:01:55,648 The swamp? 658 01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:21,141 He belongs with those reptiles. 659 01:02:23,443 --> 01:02:25,145 He deserved to die. 660 01:02:26,479 --> 01:02:30,116 Then perhaps so do we, every night of our lives. 661 01:02:32,752 --> 01:02:34,587 He was my maker. 662 01:02:35,655 --> 01:02:37,290 He gave me this life... 663 01:02:37,457 --> 01:02:39,250 whatever it is. 664 01:02:42,950 --> 01:02:44,330 It shouldn't have been this way. 665 01:02:44,698 --> 01:02:45,999 I did it for us. 666 01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:49,335 So we could be free. 667 01:02:55,975 --> 01:02:57,143 You missed him? 668 01:02:58,845 --> 01:03:01,648 He was all I knew. It's as simple as that. 669 01:03:03,383 --> 01:03:06,219 We were like two orphans learning to live again. 670 01:03:08,388 --> 01:03:10,560 We booked passage to Europe. 671 01:03:11,324 --> 01:03:13,860 Over the weeks, while waiting for the boat... 672 01:03:14,270 --> 01:03:17,497 she studied the myths and legends of the Old World... 673 01:03:17,664 --> 01:03:21,201 obsessed with the search for what she called "our kind." 674 01:03:35,648 --> 01:03:37,384 Look who we forgot. 675 01:03:41,688 --> 01:03:43,423 Let's set them free. 676 01:03:44,591 --> 01:03:45,859 - Yes. - Yes. 677 01:03:51,431 --> 01:03:53,990 It's the carriage. 678 01:04:24,297 --> 01:04:26,132 No! Louis! 679 01:04:39,646 --> 01:04:41,581 Listen, Louis... 680 01:04:43,490 --> 01:04:46,653 there's life in these old hands still. 681 01:04:49,989 --> 01:04:52,580 Not quite furioso. 682 01:04:54,794 --> 01:04:56,129 Moderato... 683 01:04:57,430 --> 01:04:59,990 cantabile, perhaps. 684 01:04:59,599 --> 01:05:01,167 How could it be? 685 01:05:01,768 --> 01:05:03,269 Ask the alligator. 686 01:05:04,170 --> 01:05:05,805 His blood helped. 687 01:05:08,341 --> 01:05:11,745 Then, on a diet of the blood of snakes... 688 01:05:12,946 --> 01:05:14,114 toads... 689 01:05:16,282 --> 01:05:20,200 and all the putrid life of the Mississippi... 690 01:05:21,988 --> 01:05:23,356 slowly... 691 01:05:24,457 --> 01:05:29,262 Lestat became something like himself again. 692 01:05:30,797 --> 01:05:32,132 Claudia... 693 01:05:33,867 --> 01:05:35,368 you've been... 694 01:05:36,102 --> 01:05:37,671 a very... 695 01:05:38,204 --> 01:05:39,305 very... 696 01:05:39,472 --> 01:05:41,141 naughty little girl. 697 01:06:43,603 --> 01:06:45,772 The ship is sailing without us! 698 01:07:05,291 --> 01:07:07,293 Though the fire seemed to spread... 699 01:07:08,940 --> 01:07:11,798 I stood on that deck fearful he would come out again... 700 01:07:11,965 --> 01:07:14,968 from the river like some monster, to destroy us both. 701 01:07:16,302 --> 01:07:18,438 And all the while I thought: 702 01:07:18,938 --> 01:07:19,973 "Lestat..." 703 01:07:20,273 --> 01:07:22,475 we deserve your vengeance. 704 01:07:23,209 --> 01:07:24,944 You gave me the 'dark gift'... 705 01:07:25,645 --> 01:07:29,816 "...and I delivered you into the hands of Death for the second time." 706 01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:50,336 Though the ship was blessedly free of rats... 707 01:07:50,670 --> 01:07:54,507 a strange plague nonetheless struck its passengers. 708 01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:58,511 Claudia and I alone seemed immune. 709 01:08:00,130 --> 01:08:01,948 We kept to ourselves... 710 01:08:02,282 --> 01:08:04,851 pondering the mystery of each other. 711 01:08:07,420 --> 01:08:09,356 We reached the Mediterranean. 712 01:08:09,522 --> 01:08:15,950 I wanted those waters to be blue, but they were black, nighttime waters. 713 01:08:15,595 --> 01:08:17,530 And how I suffered then... 714 01:08:17,964 --> 01:08:21,868 straining to recall the color that in my youth I took for granted. 715 01:08:28,410 --> 01:08:30,443 We searched village after village... 716 01:08:30,643 --> 01:08:31,878 ruin after ruin... 717 01:08:32,450 --> 01:08:33,880 country after country. 718 01:08:34,347 --> 01:08:36,449 And always we found nothing. 719 01:08:38,818 --> 01:08:41,888 I began to believe we were the only ones. 720 01:08:43,723 --> 01:08:46,559 There was a strange comfort in that thought. 721 01:08:46,893 --> 01:08:50,563 For what could the damned really have to say to the damned? 722 01:08:52,665 --> 01:08:55,368 - You said you found nothing? - Peasant rumors... 723 01:08:55,835 --> 01:08:57,871 superstitions about garlic... 724 01:08:58,380 --> 01:08:59,305 crosses... 725 01:08:59,539 --> 01:09:01,708 the old stake in the heart. 726 01:09:02,809 --> 01:09:04,678 But one of our kind? 727 01:09:04,844 --> 01:09:06,146 Not a whisper. 728 01:09:08,810 --> 01:09:12,152 There are no vampires in Transylvania? No Count Dracula? 729 01:09:12,318 --> 01:09:13,653 Fictions, my friend. 730 01:09:14,154 --> 01:09:16,923 The vulgar fictions of a demented lrishman. 731 01:09:18,910 --> 01:09:20,860 Paris, September, 1870. 732 01:09:21,561 --> 01:09:23,730 The city I'd always dreamed of. 733 01:09:24,764 --> 01:09:28,768 I was Creole, after all, and Paris was the mother of New Orleans. 734 01:09:29,536 --> 01:09:32,739 A universe whole and entire unto herself. 735 01:10:07,874 --> 01:10:09,809 We were alive again. 736 01:10:09,976 --> 01:10:11,611 Just the two of us. 737 01:10:11,778 --> 01:10:16,116 And so euphoric was I that I yielded to her every desire. 738 01:10:28,828 --> 01:10:30,230 So it was... 739 01:10:30,463 --> 01:10:33,333 when I'd given up the search for vampires... 740 01:10:33,500 --> 01:10:35,802 that a vampire found me. 741 01:12:05,592 --> 01:12:06,760 Buffoon! 742 01:12:08,595 --> 01:12:09,863 Santiago. 743 01:12:17,737 --> 01:12:21,708 I've searched the world for an immortal and this is what I find. 744 01:12:38,425 --> 01:12:40,794 Bring the petite beauty with you. 745 01:12:42,228 --> 01:12:44,631 No one will harm you. I won't allow it. 746 01:12:47,967 --> 01:12:49,235 And... 747 01:12:49,636 --> 01:12:51,371 remember my name: 748 01:12:53,239 --> 01:12:54,307 Armand. 749 01:13:02,649 --> 01:13:04,384 Remember what I told you. 750 01:13:04,584 --> 01:13:08,488 They have different powers. They'll read your thoughts. 751 01:13:21,301 --> 01:13:23,303 He's the one, that's the vampire. 752 01:13:25,500 --> 01:13:26,406 Two lovers... 753 01:13:26,573 --> 01:13:29,642 wandering down their violet way... 754 01:13:30,610 --> 01:13:33,780 whose passionate embraces, each to each... 755 01:13:33,980 --> 01:13:37,350 permit no meditations on decay... 756 01:13:39,619 --> 01:13:43,890 until they find themselves within my reach. 757 01:13:49,829 --> 01:13:53,266 Vampires who pretend to be humans pretending to be vampires. 758 01:13:53,433 --> 01:13:55,101 How avant-garde. 759 01:13:55,268 --> 01:13:59,390 The monk whose soul with heaven doth commune... 760 01:13:59,606 --> 01:14:03,209 and spends his days in pious contemplation... 761 01:14:06,546 --> 01:14:09,883 finds he will meet his maker all too soon. 762 01:14:11,451 --> 01:14:14,454 For all his prayers gets no remuneration. 763 01:14:19,526 --> 01:14:21,394 The lesson endeth here... 764 01:14:22,162 --> 01:14:23,563 and it is this: 765 01:14:24,564 --> 01:14:28,334 Each one of you my clammy hands must touch. 766 01:14:29,969 --> 01:14:33,473 Each one must bend his forehead to my kiss. 767 01:14:35,742 --> 01:14:37,770 But, hark. 768 01:14:37,744 --> 01:14:40,130 Methinks a mortal doth approach. 769 01:14:43,249 --> 01:14:45,218 What have we here? 770 01:14:45,919 --> 01:14:48,210 What beauty by my side? 771 01:14:49,890 --> 01:14:51,891 A rose in bloom, a shrinking violet? 772 01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:56,529 Perhaps she has a mind to be my bride. 773 01:14:57,300 --> 01:14:59,599 Perhaps my lesson has not ended yet. 774 01:15:02,680 --> 01:15:03,436 I don't want to die! 775 01:15:03,603 --> 01:15:05,500 But Death we are... 776 01:15:05,171 --> 01:15:06,439 and have always been. 777 01:15:06,606 --> 01:15:08,410 Someone help me! 778 01:15:08,341 --> 01:15:09,542 Please! 779 01:15:13,213 --> 01:15:14,214 No! 780 01:15:14,314 --> 01:15:15,715 What have I done? 781 01:15:15,882 --> 01:15:18,618 - We all die! - But I'm young! 782 01:15:18,785 --> 01:15:23,490 Death is no respecter of age. It can come any time, any place. 783 01:15:23,523 --> 01:15:25,759 Just as this flesh is pink now... 784 01:15:26,659 --> 01:15:29,596 so it will turn gray and wrinkle with age. 785 01:15:29,763 --> 01:15:31,431 Let me live! I don't care! 786 01:15:31,598 --> 01:15:34,267 Then why should you care if you die now? 787 01:15:34,501 --> 01:15:36,603 Oh, yes. Monsieur Vampire, take me! 788 01:15:36,770 --> 01:15:38,438 I adore you! 789 01:15:39,139 --> 01:15:40,840 You wait your turn! 790 01:15:42,609 --> 01:15:43,843 Well... 791 01:15:45,110 --> 01:15:48,281 Do you know what it means to be loved by Death? 792 01:15:50,183 --> 01:15:52,819 To become our bride? 793 01:16:31,725 --> 01:16:33,226 No pain. 794 01:16:43,690 --> 01:16:44,404 Monstrous. 795 01:17:01,254 --> 01:17:02,856 We live beneath. 796 01:17:03,456 --> 01:17:05,910 Let me show you. 797 01:17:10,964 --> 01:17:12,298 Monstrous. 798 01:17:13,466 --> 01:17:14,934 Yes. 799 01:17:15,935 --> 01:17:17,804 But very beautiful. 800 01:17:39,125 --> 01:17:41,127 Welcome to my home. 801 01:17:56,142 --> 01:17:57,344 Try him. 802 01:18:20,367 --> 01:18:22,135 Two vampires... 803 01:18:23,360 --> 01:18:24,971 from the New World... 804 01:18:25,705 --> 01:18:28,441 come to guide us into the new era... 805 01:18:28,842 --> 01:18:31,110 as all we love slowly rots... 806 01:18:32,379 --> 01:18:34,470 and fades away. 807 01:18:35,150 --> 01:18:37,384 Are you the leader of this group? 808 01:18:38,180 --> 01:18:39,886 If there were a leader... 809 01:18:40,487 --> 01:18:42,220 I would be the one. 810 01:18:42,188 --> 01:18:45,250 - So you have the answers? - So you have questions? 811 01:18:47,727 --> 01:18:49,229 What are we? 812 01:18:51,364 --> 01:18:52,699 Nothing... 813 01:18:53,199 --> 01:18:54,901 if not vampires. 814 01:18:58,538 --> 01:19:00,407 Who made us what we are? 815 01:19:01,740 --> 01:19:03,430 Surely you know the one who made you? 816 01:19:03,209 --> 01:19:05,245 Yes, but the one who made him? 817 01:19:05,912 --> 01:19:07,800 The source... 818 01:19:07,247 --> 01:19:08,715 of all this... 819 01:19:09,883 --> 01:19:10,917 evil. 820 01:19:12,919 --> 01:19:14,154 I understand. 821 01:19:15,755 --> 01:19:17,757 I saw you in the theater. 822 01:19:19,392 --> 01:19:21,261 Your suffering... 823 01:19:23,630 --> 01:19:25,980 your sympathy for that girl. 824 01:19:26,933 --> 01:19:28,268 You die... 825 01:19:28,601 --> 01:19:29,936 when you kill. 826 01:19:31,104 --> 01:19:34,908 You feel you deserve to die and you stint on nothing. 827 01:19:36,609 --> 01:19:38,611 But does that make you evil? 828 01:19:39,612 --> 01:19:42,182 Since you comprehend what you call goodness... 829 01:19:42,349 --> 01:19:44,500 doesn't that make you good? 830 01:19:45,452 --> 01:19:47,187 Then there is nothing? 831 01:19:47,587 --> 01:19:48,955 Perhaps. 832 01:19:50,924 --> 01:19:52,592 But perhaps... 833 01:19:54,294 --> 01:19:55,795 this... 834 01:19:56,262 --> 01:19:58,765 is the only real evil left. 835 01:19:59,966 --> 01:20:02,680 Then God does not exist? 836 01:20:02,635 --> 01:20:04,804 I know nothing of God. 837 01:20:05,972 --> 01:20:07,307 Or the devil. 838 01:20:07,807 --> 01:20:11,811 I have never seen a vision, nor learned a secret... 839 01:20:11,978 --> 01:20:14,781 that would damn or save my soul. 840 01:20:16,816 --> 01:20:18,451 As far as I know... 841 01:20:18,618 --> 01:20:20,553 after 400 years... 842 01:20:21,554 --> 01:20:24,924 I am the oldest living vampire... 843 01:20:25,492 --> 01:20:26,960 in the world. 844 01:20:28,461 --> 01:20:30,964 Then it's as I always feared. 845 01:20:39,639 --> 01:20:41,508 You fear too much. 846 01:20:43,843 --> 01:20:45,845 So much you make me fear... 847 01:20:51,284 --> 01:20:53,186 The one who made you... 848 01:20:53,753 --> 01:20:55,755 should have told you this. 849 01:20:57,230 --> 01:20:59,793 The one who left the Old World for the New. 850 01:20:59,993 --> 01:21:03,129 The one who made us knew nothing, nor did he care. 851 01:21:03,363 --> 01:21:04,364 Knew? 852 01:21:04,531 --> 01:21:05,865 Come, beloved. 853 01:21:06,866 --> 01:21:09,200 It's time we were on our way. 854 01:21:09,202 --> 01:21:12,500 I'm hungry and the city awaits. 855 01:21:13,440 --> 01:21:16,420 The place was empty as we left. 856 01:21:16,209 --> 01:21:18,110 Silent as the grave. 857 01:21:18,178 --> 01:21:21,648 And as we blundered through it, again came the thought: 858 01:21:21,848 --> 01:21:24,170 "I have wronged Lestat. 859 01:21:24,184 --> 01:21:26,219 I have hated him for the wrong reasons." 860 01:21:26,386 --> 01:21:27,954 How did you wrong him? 861 01:21:30,490 --> 01:21:31,558 You said a name. 862 01:21:32,580 --> 01:21:34,661 Yes, a name I don't care to say again. 863 01:21:34,861 --> 01:21:38,398 There is but one crime among us vampires here. 864 01:21:40,166 --> 01:21:43,670 It is the crime that means death to any vampire: 865 01:21:45,305 --> 01:21:47,173 To kill your own kind. 866 01:21:51,378 --> 01:21:54,247 - Do you think I'd let them harm you? - No, you would not. 867 01:21:54,848 --> 01:21:56,483 Danger holds you to me. 868 01:21:56,750 --> 01:21:58,510 Love holds you to me. 869 01:21:58,218 --> 01:21:59,719 - Love? - Love. 870 01:21:59,886 --> 01:22:02,222 You would leave me for Armand if he beckoned you. 871 01:22:03,757 --> 01:22:04,924 Never. 872 01:22:05,910 --> 01:22:08,595 He wants you as you want him. He's been waiting for you. 873 01:22:08,862 --> 01:22:13,330 He wants you as a companion. He bides his time in that place. 874 01:22:13,433 --> 01:22:17,203 - He finds it as dull and lifeless as we do. - Perhaps, yes. 875 01:22:17,604 --> 01:22:21,241 Do you know what his soul said to me without saying a word? 876 01:22:22,776 --> 01:22:24,678 "Let him go," he said. 877 01:22:25,445 --> 01:22:27,470 "Let him go." 878 01:22:28,948 --> 01:22:30,684 Is that what I should do? 879 01:22:32,252 --> 01:22:33,620 Let you go? 880 01:22:34,921 --> 01:22:36,256 My father... 881 01:22:36,423 --> 01:22:39,250 my Louis, who made me? 882 01:22:41,728 --> 01:22:43,530 It will be all right. 883 01:22:44,464 --> 01:22:46,466 You really believe that? 884 01:22:54,607 --> 01:22:57,143 The soldier, on returning from the war... 885 01:22:57,911 --> 01:23:01,581 thinks victory has inured him against sorrow... 886 01:23:01,981 --> 01:23:03,950 till Death comes by... 887 01:23:04,451 --> 01:23:06,453 and chops him from his horse. 888 01:23:12,625 --> 01:23:14,461 I was waiting for you. 889 01:23:16,963 --> 01:23:18,331 Listen to me. 890 01:23:20,934 --> 01:23:23,200 Claudia is very dear to me. 891 01:23:23,636 --> 01:23:24,804 She's my daughter. 892 01:23:24,971 --> 01:23:26,339 Your lover. 893 01:23:27,307 --> 01:23:28,675 No, my beloved. 894 01:23:28,842 --> 01:23:30,143 My child. 895 01:23:31,811 --> 01:23:34,140 You say so. You're innocent. 896 01:23:34,981 --> 01:23:36,983 She's in danger, isn't she? 897 01:23:37,183 --> 01:23:39,352 - She is. - Why? 898 01:23:41,454 --> 01:23:43,790 I could give you reasons. 899 01:23:44,824 --> 01:23:46,192 Her silence. 900 01:23:47,527 --> 01:23:48,862 Her youth. 901 01:23:50,497 --> 01:23:53,133 It's forbidden to make one so young... 902 01:23:53,666 --> 01:23:55,535 so helpless... 903 01:23:55,869 --> 01:23:58,171 that cannot survive on its own. 904 01:23:58,338 --> 01:24:00,400 Then blame the one who made her. 905 01:24:00,206 --> 01:24:02,208 Did you kill this vampire who made you both? 906 01:24:02,375 --> 01:24:05,178 Is that why you won't say his name? Santiago thinks you did. 907 01:24:05,345 --> 01:24:07,847 - We want no quarrel with him. - It's already begun. 908 01:24:10,550 --> 01:24:13,530 If you want to save her, send her away. 909 01:24:13,219 --> 01:24:14,387 Then I leave too. 910 01:24:21,494 --> 01:24:22,896 So soon? 911 01:24:25,498 --> 01:24:28,234 Without any of those answers you so longed for? 912 01:24:28,902 --> 01:24:32,405 - You said there were none. - But you asked the wrong questions. 913 01:24:48,221 --> 01:24:49,556 Do you know... 914 01:24:50,190 --> 01:24:52,192 how few vampires... 915 01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:56,290 have the stamina for immortality? 916 01:24:57,897 --> 01:25:00,266 How quickly they perish of their own will. 917 01:25:04,604 --> 01:25:05,939 The world... 918 01:25:06,906 --> 01:25:08,274 changes. 919 01:25:10,410 --> 01:25:11,745 We do not. 920 01:25:13,580 --> 01:25:17,250 Therein lies the irony that finally kills us. 921 01:25:18,284 --> 01:25:21,755 I need you to make contact with this age. 922 01:25:22,422 --> 01:25:23,623 Me? 923 01:25:24,257 --> 01:25:25,925 Don't you see? 924 01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:29,262 I'm not the spirit of any age. 925 01:25:30,196 --> 01:25:32,132 I'm at odds with everything. 926 01:25:32,298 --> 01:25:33,967 I always have been. 927 01:25:35,602 --> 01:25:38,471 That is the very spirit of your age. 928 01:25:39,806 --> 01:25:41,441 The heart of it. 929 01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:46,146 Your fall from grace... 930 01:25:46,946 --> 01:25:49,616 has been the fall of a century. 931 01:25:50,950 --> 01:25:52,986 But the vampires in the theater? 932 01:25:54,654 --> 01:25:56,560 Decadent... 933 01:25:56,790 --> 01:25:58,158 useless. 934 01:25:59,793 --> 01:26:01,928 They can't reflect anything. 935 01:26:02,662 --> 01:26:03,663 But... 936 01:26:04,130 --> 01:26:05,465 you do. 937 01:26:07,667 --> 01:26:08,935 You reflect... 938 01:26:09,102 --> 01:26:10,737 its broken heart. 939 01:26:23,350 --> 01:26:25,118 A vampire... 940 01:26:26,353 --> 01:26:28,188 with a human soul. 941 01:26:29,522 --> 01:26:32,492 An immortal with a mortal's passion. 942 01:26:34,828 --> 01:26:35,995 You... 943 01:26:36,529 --> 01:26:37,864 are... 944 01:26:39,366 --> 01:26:41,368 beautiful, my friend. 945 01:26:43,703 --> 01:26:47,400 Lestat must have wept when he made you. 946 01:26:48,208 --> 01:26:49,876 Lestat? 947 01:26:50,430 --> 01:26:51,678 You knew Lestat? 948 01:26:54,514 --> 01:26:55,849 Yes. 949 01:26:57,500 --> 01:26:58,451 I knew him. 950 01:27:00,353 --> 01:27:03,356 Knew him well enough not to mourn his passing. 951 01:27:06,393 --> 01:27:09,290 I felt a kind of peace at last. 952 01:27:09,562 --> 01:27:14,670 I had found the teacher which Lestat could never, I knew now, have been. 953 01:27:14,868 --> 01:27:17,904 I knew knowledge would never be withheld by Armand. 954 01:27:18,204 --> 01:27:21,708 It would pass through him as through a pane of glass. 955 01:27:36,756 --> 01:27:38,580 Madeleine... 956 01:27:39,250 --> 01:27:40,593 Louis is shy. 957 01:27:56,343 --> 01:27:58,445 - Drink. - Uch. 958 01:27:59,179 --> 01:28:00,347 Do it, Louis. 959 01:28:00,580 --> 01:28:03,383 Because I cannot do it. I haven't the strength. 960 01:28:03,550 --> 01:28:05,251 You saw to that when you made me. 961 01:28:05,418 --> 01:28:07,954 You haven't the vaguest conception what you ask. 962 01:28:10,223 --> 01:28:11,224 I have. 963 01:28:11,391 --> 01:28:14,728 You have found your new companion! You will make me mine! 964 01:28:15,595 --> 01:28:17,297 How do we seem to you? 965 01:28:18,131 --> 01:28:19,899 Do you find us beautiful? 966 01:28:20,467 --> 01:28:21,701 Magical? 967 01:28:22,469 --> 01:28:24,471 Our white skin, our fierce eyes? 968 01:28:24,637 --> 01:28:27,607 "Drink," you ask me. Do you know the thing you will become? 969 01:28:27,774 --> 01:28:30,143 Your evil is that you cannot be evil. 970 01:28:30,577 --> 01:28:32,979 And I shall suffer for it no longer! 971 01:28:33,146 --> 01:28:35,648 Don't make me do this. I cannot! 972 01:28:35,882 --> 01:28:37,550 Yet, you could do it to me. 973 01:28:38,551 --> 01:28:43,560 Snatching me from my mother's hands, like two monsters in a fairy tale. 974 01:28:43,923 --> 01:28:45,759 And now you weep. 975 01:28:45,925 --> 01:28:48,395 I haven't tears enough for what you've done to me. 976 01:28:49,129 --> 01:28:51,164 You give her to me, Louis! 977 01:28:51,431 --> 01:28:53,500 Do this before you leave me! 978 01:28:56,269 --> 01:28:57,337 Oh, God. 979 01:28:58,400 --> 01:28:59,673 I love you still. 980 01:29:00,340 --> 01:29:02,509 That's the torment of it. 981 01:29:03,176 --> 01:29:05,780 Who'll care for me, my love... 982 01:29:06,146 --> 01:29:08,581 my dark angel, when you are gone? 983 01:29:15,855 --> 01:29:18,525 What do you think she is, Madeleine? 984 01:29:20,260 --> 01:29:21,494 A doll? 985 01:29:24,497 --> 01:29:26,320 A child who cannot die. 986 01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:29,636 And the child who did die? 987 01:29:31,438 --> 01:29:32,839 My daughter. 988 01:30:28,995 --> 01:30:31,164 Louis, what's happening to her? 989 01:30:31,331 --> 01:30:32,699 She's dying. 990 01:30:33,900 --> 01:30:35,902 It happened to you too... 991 01:30:36,102 --> 01:30:38,772 only you were too young to remember. 992 01:30:40,774 --> 01:30:42,375 But if she dies? 993 01:30:43,610 --> 01:30:45,512 It's only mortal death. 994 01:30:49,449 --> 01:30:51,851 Bear me no ill will, my love. 995 01:30:54,621 --> 01:30:56,256 We are now even. 996 01:30:57,757 --> 01:30:59,392 What do you mean? 997 01:31:00,760 --> 01:31:03,563 What died in that room was not that woman. 998 01:31:07,634 --> 01:31:09,636 What has died is the... 999 01:31:10,904 --> 01:31:12,806 last breath in me... 1000 01:31:13,907 --> 01:31:15,575 that was human. 1001 01:31:20,246 --> 01:31:21,648 Yes, Father. 1002 01:31:22,882 --> 01:31:24,651 At last we are even. 1003 01:31:30,900 --> 01:31:32,492 It's time for justice, little one. 1004 01:31:49,843 --> 01:31:52,846 Get me Armand. He wouldn't stand for this. 1005 01:31:53,179 --> 01:31:54,981 Death for the others. 1006 01:31:55,749 --> 01:31:57,170 For you... 1007 01:31:57,283 --> 01:31:58,852 eternity in a box. 1008 01:32:00,754 --> 01:32:05,250 Walled in a dungeon, your only company will be your screams. 1009 01:32:06,192 --> 01:32:08,495 Perhaps it will take centuries. 1010 01:32:10,130 --> 01:32:11,197 Take them! 1011 01:32:13,633 --> 01:32:15,468 Claudia! 1012 01:32:16,970 --> 01:32:20,674 Armand! Armand! 1013 01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:22,509 Armand! 1014 01:32:22,876 --> 01:32:25,812 Claudia! Armand! 1015 01:32:25,979 --> 01:32:27,981 Armand! 1016 01:33:26,373 --> 01:33:27,907 Pleasant dreams. 1017 01:33:30,543 --> 01:33:32,445 No! No! 1018 01:33:33,780 --> 01:33:35,150 Help! 1019 01:34:08,281 --> 01:34:09,883 Madeleine. 1020 01:34:10,817 --> 01:34:12,520 Wake up. 1021 01:34:42,982 --> 01:34:45,850 Claudia! 1022 01:35:18,885 --> 01:35:20,220 Where's Claudia? 1023 01:35:21,540 --> 01:35:23,723 Claudia. I cannot help her. 1024 01:35:24,391 --> 01:35:26,893 - Where's Claudia? - I can't save her! 1025 01:35:28,895 --> 01:35:30,830 I will only risk losing you! 1026 01:35:32,532 --> 01:35:34,000 Louis, don't! 1027 01:37:22,275 --> 01:37:23,777 Come, Louis. 1028 01:37:24,978 --> 01:37:26,246 Not here. 1029 01:37:34,921 --> 01:37:36,690 So a vampire can cry? 1030 01:37:39,459 --> 01:37:40,627 Once... 1031 01:37:40,860 --> 01:37:42,662 maybe twice, in eternity. 1032 01:37:44,864 --> 01:37:46,320 And maybe it was... 1033 01:37:46,199 --> 01:37:49,169 to quench those tears forever that I took such revenge. 1034 01:38:45,692 --> 01:38:47,927 Stop him! It's burning! 1035 01:38:48,940 --> 01:38:49,950 Get him! 1036 01:40:39,500 --> 01:40:40,507 Louis! 1037 01:40:55,622 --> 01:40:57,891 You didn't even warn them, did you? 1038 01:40:59,793 --> 01:41:00,860 No. 1039 01:41:03,129 --> 01:41:05,398 And you knew what I would do. 1040 01:41:06,666 --> 01:41:07,867 I knew. 1041 01:41:08,368 --> 01:41:10,336 I rescued you, didn't I? 1042 01:41:10,503 --> 01:41:12,405 From the terrible dawn. 1043 01:41:16,843 --> 01:41:20,380 You were their leader. They trusted you. 1044 01:41:21,715 --> 01:41:24,217 You made me see their failings, Louis. 1045 01:41:25,752 --> 01:41:28,210 They were doomed... 1046 01:41:28,188 --> 01:41:30,557 stuck in their decadent time. 1047 01:41:30,857 --> 01:41:33,493 They had forgotten the first lesson... 1048 01:41:33,727 --> 01:41:35,729 that we must be powerful... 1049 01:41:35,929 --> 01:41:37,970 beautiful... 1050 01:41:37,263 --> 01:41:38,932 and without regret. 1051 01:41:40,100 --> 01:41:41,601 And you can teach me this? 1052 01:41:41,768 --> 01:41:42,936 Yes. 1053 01:41:43,403 --> 01:41:46,106 - To be without regret? - Yes. 1054 01:41:47,607 --> 01:41:49,943 Then, what a pair we could make. 1055 01:41:52,612 --> 01:41:55,749 But what if it's a lesson I don't care to learn? 1056 01:41:57,450 --> 01:41:58,451 What do you mean? 1057 01:41:58,885 --> 01:42:01,454 What if all I have is my suffering? 1058 01:42:01,788 --> 01:42:03,123 My regret? 1059 01:42:05,291 --> 01:42:07,930 Don't you want to lose it? 1060 01:42:07,293 --> 01:42:09,295 So you can have that too? 1061 01:42:10,296 --> 01:42:12,432 The heart that mourns her... 1062 01:42:12,799 --> 01:42:14,801 her that you burnt to a cinder? 1063 01:42:15,101 --> 01:42:16,302 Louis, I swear I didn't... 1064 01:42:16,469 --> 01:42:18,138 But I know you did. 1065 01:42:19,372 --> 01:42:20,640 I know... 1066 01:42:22,142 --> 01:42:23,309 you... 1067 01:42:23,910 --> 01:42:25,912 regret nothing. 1068 01:42:27,647 --> 01:42:29,215 You feel... 1069 01:42:29,749 --> 01:42:30,917 nothing. 1070 01:42:32,786 --> 01:42:35,388 If that's all I have left to learn... 1071 01:42:36,956 --> 01:42:39,590 I can do that on my own. 1072 01:42:44,664 --> 01:42:47,267 - Louis. - Yes. 1073 01:42:49,602 --> 01:42:50,970 I will die. 1074 01:42:51,171 --> 01:42:53,340 No. You are dead. 1075 01:42:53,506 --> 01:42:56,242 And you want me to quicken you once more. 1076 01:42:58,678 --> 01:43:02,282 And as much as your invitation might appeal to me... 1077 01:43:03,616 --> 01:43:06,586 I must regretfully decline. 1078 01:43:19,766 --> 01:43:21,701 For years I wandered: 1079 01:43:21,868 --> 01:43:23,536 Italy, Greece... 1080 01:43:24,270 --> 01:43:26,272 all the ancient lands. 1081 01:43:26,706 --> 01:43:29,109 But the world was a tomb to me... 1082 01:43:29,342 --> 01:43:31,978 a graveyard full of broken statues. 1083 01:43:32,712 --> 01:43:36,349 And each of those statues resembled her face. 1084 01:43:42,222 --> 01:43:45,191 Then, out of curiosity, boredom, who knows what... 1085 01:43:46,393 --> 01:43:49,562 I left the Old World and came back to my America. 1086 01:43:53,366 --> 01:43:57,537 And there a mechanical wonder allowed me to see the sunrise... 1087 01:43:57,704 --> 01:43:59,372 for the first time... 1088 01:43:59,572 --> 01:44:01,408 in 200 years. 1089 01:44:02,742 --> 01:44:04,544 And what sunrises! 1090 01:44:05,211 --> 01:44:07,514 Seen as the human eye could never see them. 1091 01:44:09,150 --> 01:44:10,684 Silver at first... 1092 01:44:11,651 --> 01:44:15,388 then, as the years progressed, in tones of purple, red... 1093 01:44:16,356 --> 01:44:18,258 and my long-lost blue. 1094 01:44:23,363 --> 01:44:26,700 In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans. 1095 01:44:27,567 --> 01:44:30,904 And as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. 1096 01:44:32,272 --> 01:44:34,674 It was rich, almost sweet... 1097 01:44:35,575 --> 01:44:39,746 like the fragrance of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. 1098 01:44:41,470 --> 01:44:45,510 I walked the streets savoring that long-lost perfume. 1099 01:44:50,957 --> 01:44:52,959 And then on Prytania Street... 1100 01:44:53,293 --> 01:44:56,262 only blocks from the Lafayette Cemetery... 1101 01:44:56,463 --> 01:44:57,897 I caught the scent of death. 1102 01:44:59,532 --> 01:45:01,868 And it wasn't coming from the graves. 1103 01:45:03,403 --> 01:45:06,390 The scent grew stronger as I walked. 1104 01:45:06,272 --> 01:45:07,807 Old death. 1105 01:45:08,241 --> 01:45:10,977 A scent too faint for mortals to detect. 1106 01:46:39,650 --> 01:46:40,667 Louis. 1107 01:46:42,902 --> 01:46:45,171 I'm so glad you are here. 1108 01:46:45,839 --> 01:46:47,374 I've dreamed... 1109 01:46:48,308 --> 01:46:50,143 of this moment. 1110 01:46:51,711 --> 01:46:54,800 She never should have been one of... 1111 01:46:54,581 --> 01:46:55,749 us. 1112 01:46:56,316 --> 01:46:58,251 That's all past, Lestat. 1113 01:46:59,219 --> 01:47:00,754 Yeah. 1114 01:47:03,890 --> 01:47:04,324 Past. 1115 01:47:27,881 --> 01:47:30,116 Still beautiful, Louis. 1116 01:47:32,786 --> 01:47:35,210 You always were the strong one. 1117 01:47:39,359 --> 01:47:41,270 Don't be frightened. 1118 01:47:45,131 --> 01:47:47,100 I mean you no harm. 1119 01:47:50,770 --> 01:47:52,806 You've come home to me, then? 1120 01:47:57,310 --> 01:47:59,412 You remember how I was? 1121 01:48:01,748 --> 01:48:04,818 The vampire that I was? 1122 01:48:06,486 --> 01:48:08,121 Yes, I remember. 1123 01:48:14,594 --> 01:48:17,163 No one could refuse me... 1124 01:48:19,232 --> 01:48:20,500 not even you. 1125 01:48:22,168 --> 01:48:23,403 I tried. 1126 01:48:24,270 --> 01:48:26,106 Yes, you tried. 1127 01:48:27,507 --> 01:48:30,510 And the more you tried, - 1128 01:48:33,646 --> 01:48:35,515 the more I wanted you. 1129 01:48:46,920 --> 01:48:47,660 I can't bear it. 1130 01:48:50,300 --> 01:48:51,498 Such lights... 1131 01:48:53,990 --> 01:48:54,768 and that noise! 1132 01:48:56,503 --> 01:48:59,339 They make the night brighter than the day. 1133 01:49:04,177 --> 01:49:05,779 Lestat. 1134 01:49:07,547 --> 01:49:09,182 It's false light. 1135 01:49:09,883 --> 01:49:11,618 It can't harm you. 1136 01:49:22,896 --> 01:49:25,465 If you stay with me, Louis... 1137 01:49:26,833 --> 01:49:28,668 I could venture out again. 1138 01:49:31,738 --> 01:49:33,740 Become the old Lestat. 1139 01:49:35,408 --> 01:49:36,743 I must leave now. 1140 01:50:05,271 --> 01:50:07,941 Whatever happened to Lestat, I do not know. 1141 01:50:09,376 --> 01:50:11,945 I go on night after night. 1142 01:50:12,679 --> 01:50:15,115 I feed on those who cross my path. 1143 01:50:18,840 --> 01:50:21,540 But all my passion went with her golden hair. 1144 01:50:24,424 --> 01:50:26,960 I'm a spirit of preternatural flesh. 1145 01:50:28,461 --> 01:50:30,130 Detached. 1146 01:50:30,964 --> 01:50:32,298 Unchangeable. 1147 01:50:35,301 --> 01:50:36,469 Empty. 1148 01:50:37,637 --> 01:50:38,805 Empty? 1149 01:50:39,272 --> 01:50:40,440 That's it? 1150 01:50:42,709 --> 01:50:44,477 No, it can't end like that. 1151 01:50:46,146 --> 01:50:47,647 But it has. 1152 01:50:47,814 --> 01:50:49,616 There's no more to tell. 1153 01:50:50,583 --> 01:50:52,485 There has to be more to tell. 1154 01:50:52,652 --> 01:50:55,255 You don't understand yourself. You're not empty. 1155 01:50:55,955 --> 01:50:59,920 What I wouldn't give to be like you, to have your power... 1156 01:50:59,259 --> 01:51:01,494 to have seen the things you have seen. 1157 01:51:01,661 --> 01:51:03,630 You haven't been listening. 1158 01:51:03,229 --> 01:51:06,900 I have been listening. Your story is incredible. It's amazing. 1159 01:51:07,670 --> 01:51:10,170 Do what you want with it. Give it to others. Learn what you can. 1160 01:51:11,171 --> 01:51:14,507 There's only one way I'll truly learn and you know it. 1161 01:51:15,108 --> 01:51:18,845 Now, you brought me here for a reason, didn't you? Didn't you? 1162 01:51:19,120 --> 01:51:20,780 What reason would that be? 1163 01:51:21,140 --> 01:51:22,515 You want a companion. 1164 01:51:22,682 --> 01:51:24,918 You want a link to the outside world. That's me. 1165 01:51:25,850 --> 01:51:27,354 Take me. That's what I want. I want what you have. 1166 01:51:27,520 --> 01:51:31,240 - I refuse to let it end like this. - Dear God, I've failed again. 1167 01:51:31,257 --> 01:51:33,960 You haven't failed. God has nothing to do with it. 1168 01:51:37,530 --> 01:51:38,698 Do you like this? 1169 01:51:39,799 --> 01:51:42,602 Do you like being food for the immortals? 1170 01:51:43,603 --> 01:51:44,637 Do you like dying? 1171 01:51:44,804 --> 01:51:45,839 Stop! 1172 01:52:53,673 --> 01:52:56,420 1791 was the year it happened. 1173 01:52:56,443 --> 01:52:59,446 I was 24. Younger than you are now. 1174 01:53:00,513 --> 01:53:03,383 But times were different then. I was a man at that age. 1175 01:53:03,550 --> 01:53:07,120 The master of a large plantation, just south of New Orleans. 1176 01:53:08,455 --> 01:53:11,570 I had lost my wife in childbirth. 1177 01:53:11,224 --> 01:53:12,792 Somebody change my shorts. 1178 01:53:12,959 --> 01:53:15,695 She and the infant had been buried less than half a year. 1179 01:53:15,862 --> 01:53:16,863 It's good stuff. 1180 01:53:17,300 --> 01:53:18,765 I would've been happy to join them. 1181 01:53:18,932 --> 01:53:20,100 Good stuff. 1182 01:53:23,870 --> 01:53:26,139 I assume I need no introduction. 1183 01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:42,722 I feel better already. 1184 01:53:46,960 --> 01:53:49,329 Most of all, I longed for death. 1185 01:53:50,330 --> 01:53:51,898 I invited it. 1186 01:53:52,966 --> 01:53:55,168 A release from the pain of living. 1187 01:53:55,335 --> 01:53:58,505 Oh, Louis, Louis. 1188 01:53:59,500 --> 01:54:02,809 Still whining, Louis. 1189 01:54:03,476 --> 01:54:04,778 Have you heard enough? 1190 01:54:05,278 --> 01:54:07,681 I've had to listen to that for centuries. 1191 01:54:10,517 --> 01:54:12,252 Don't be afraid. 1192 01:54:14,320 --> 01:54:16,690 I'm going to give you the choice... 1193 01:54:17,657 --> 01:54:19,426 I never had.