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Vampire: Love and Pain

Vampires have always had an air of sexuality to them. Whether it’s the fair, powerful, and rich man or the seductive and enchanting woman, vampires are hardly androgynous. 
In interview with a Vampire, sex is arguably the main theme. Louis describes becoming a vampire at the hands of Lestat as pleasurable as opposed to frightening. What happens soon after is significantly less pleasurable, with Louis’ human fluids forcing their way out of his body, but it was pleasant at first. Tranforming into a vampire seems to be compared to sex, or at least sexualized, which makes the transformation of Claudia at the hands of Lestat all the more creepy. 

Lestat goes from an interesting villain to Frieza from Dragon Ball Z. He just will not stay dead. I believe he returns from death at least three times, making his return less and less impactful every time. His return after Louis and Armand flee to New Orleans was hilarious at this point.  

I also found it funny how everyone wanted a piece of Lois, the punchline being the interviewer himself wanting to be transformed by Louis. This pissed of Louis and he “kills” the interviewer, which got a good laugh out of me. Here Louis is, pouring his heart out over his sexual vampire problems and the interviewer himself gets the hots for Louis. 


I understand what the story was going for. The author took the sexual origin of vampires and went all-out with it. I am not exactly a fan of the end-product, I feel that it’s really cheesy in its approach to the subject matter.

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