(S1, E21) Interviewing Sexy Vampires (Nosferatu Need Not Apply)
It’s almost Halloween! Which means this episode of Pop Culture Boner has to be about something spooky. This episode, we’re looking at 1994 film Interview with the Vampire, the origins of vampire mythology and what vampires mean to us now. What is it about bloodsucking, sexually ambiguous monsters that drives us wild? Are we obsessed with sex and death? Or is it Brad Pitt?
You can find a list of references here:
Paul Barber (1988, Yale University Press) - Vampires, Burial, and Death : Folklore and Reality
Susan Ferraro (1990, The New York Times Magazine) - Novels You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
Adam Jacques (2014, Independent) - Anne Rice: The Interview with the Vampire novelist on her daughter's death, living through her own funeral and the dangers of Oxford
Ed Power (2019, Independent) - The bite stuff: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and the making of ‘Interview with the Vampire’
The various Wikipedias can have their very own list, because this topic was so broad we had to go big:
You can download the full transcript here.