Vampires are Suckin.

For me vampires are usually hit or miss. They can be pretty interesting when in stories such as Interview with the Vampire or extremely lame and laughable in films like Twilight, or even hilarious in movies such as Dracula: Dead and Loving It by Mel Brookes.

Intereview with the Vampire is one of those times I actually appreciate, and enjoy a vampire tale. I enjoyed finding out an in-depth history of a vampire something we don't usually get. Usually its just some mysterious guy that has a lot of money, and after so many hundreds of years I would hope he would be able to accumulate a lot of money, looks handsome I suppose and tends to somehow know how to talk to people despite having to spend most of it locked up inside while the rest of the world is running about. Interview with the Vampire however gave a life and emotional connection to the characters of Lastat, Louis, and Claudia. Interesting thing about Claudia is that she's five years old when she's bitten. And in this worlds laws when you're bitten you cease to age. She is five years old forever, but after hundreds of years of living one is bound to grow up. She grows ever restless and tired of being five. She starts to desire things older women and vampires desire. Such as the urge to hunt. She even goes so far as to feed one of the vampires a dead human, which again in this universe is a really bad things that makes a vampire really sick. But Claudia is not all heartless so to speak. In France when they meet Armand she is sickened by his ruthless feeding of humans in front of humans under the guise of theater acting. She eventually meets a sad end when the theater vampires take her captive after hearing Lastats story of how she and Louis tried to kill him twice. Which in the vampire world is a big no no.

So in the end we learn that immortality isn't all fun times free of death. It becomes a burden you can't get rid of. While you may have fun from time to time in the end you never see the end of war and murder and suffering.