Elliott Goldenthal - Interview With The Vampire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Elliot Goldenthal's score perfectly captures the mood of the film, from the opening notes of "Libera Me" to the reprise of "Born to Darkness" at the end. He builds on a few basic themes, adding excitement to the mix with the high-intensity "Louis' Revenge" and "Claudia's Allegro Agitato." As some of the track titles suggest, Goldenthal uses classical themes and techniques to compose his music, which works nicely. So well, in fact, that the Guns n Roses' rendition of "Sympathy for the Devil," appropriate as it was in the film, sounds like an afterthought here. The soundtrack is a little too repetitive to hold up well to repeated listens, but it's a fine effort overall, and one that holds true both to the film and to the Anne Rice novel on which it was based. --Genevieve Williams Amazon.com

An Exciting Ride

If you enjoy classical music or have a thing for movie soundtracks like I do then you'll love this. It's dark, angry, beautiful, sad, exciting, frightening... April 4, 2008

Opera

I love this soundtrack for the first song!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE the last song sang by Axel Rose. January 12, 2008

Amazing!

This soundtrack is absolutely amazing. Dark, moving, melodic, and VERY emotional. I would recommend this soundtrack to anyone who is a fan of classical, or anyone who likes dark, moving, music. December 30, 2006

Nearly perfect movie score!!!

I've been a fan of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicle novels and the movie "Interview With The Vampire" for a long time, and just recently picked up the movie soundtrack in like new condition for $2 from an Amazon seller, and it was certainly a good purchase! Of course I've seen the movie before so I knew what the movie score sounded like, but listening to the music without the movie certainly is not a let down.

This album is dark, brooding, with alot of feeling, and is great music for a vampire movie. Maybe not quite on the same level as the Lord of the Rings movie scores for example, but does it have to be?

My only regret with this cd is that it does not contain any of the piano tunes that Lestat and Claudia play throughout the movie (which I LOVED), but the soundtrack is still very good regardless, and all of the other music from the movie that I can remember is on this cd. Some people have complained about the GNR Sympathy for the Devil song that is on the soundtrack. While it's true that it hardly goes with the rest of the movie score, it is still a part of the movie, so it's cool that it's represented here. Don't like Sympathy for the Devil? Don't listen to it - there are still 18 other very worthy tracks on this soundtrack. SFTD is the last track, so you can listen to the first 18 and then stop if you wish. I happen to like SFTD well enough anyway, so no problem for me at all.

All in all - very well done release of a terrific movie score! December 13, 2006

Like the movie itself

The last track "Sympathy For The Devil" from Guns and Roses is a mind bending performance. November 12, 2006

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