The 4 Best (& 4 Worst) Adaptations of Anne Rices Works According To Rotten Tomatoes
The 4 Best (& 4 Worst) Adaptations of Anne Rice’s Works, According To Rotten Tomatoes
Here are the best (and worst) screen adaptations and scripts from beloved writer Anne Rice, according to Rotten Tomatoes scores.
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Anne Rice is a best-selling author most known for her The Vampire Chronicles novels, particularly The Interview with the Vampire. However, she has written a great deal more in the genres of erotic fiction and Christian fiction, as well as horror fiction.
In spite of the popularity of Anne Rice and her novels, not many adaptations of her works have been made. According to IMDb, she only has eight writing credits for film and television productions, six of which are adaptations from her novels, and two of which are scripts she wrote. Since the final products of film and television productions are technically adaptations of the original scripts, here is a look at these eight adaptations of Anne Rice’s works as ranked as the four best and four worst, according to their Rotten Tomatoes scores, including the original scripts she wrote.
8 Worst: Exit To Eden (6%)
Exit to Eden was a novel originally published by Anne Rice under the pen name Anne Rampling and later was published under Rice’s name. It is a romance novel with a focus on BDSM, long before E.L. James’s Fifty Shades series was written and popularized.
Both the book and the film are about Lisa, who manages a BDSM resort called Eden, and Elliot, who vacations at the resort, and how they ultimately fall in love. The movie seems to have added on a thriller aspect involving jewel thieves who have it out for Elliot, which is not part of the book.
7 Best: Queen Of The Damned (17%)
The film Queen of the Damned is an adaptation of Rice’s third novel in The Vampire Chronicles also named Queen of the Damned. It does contain aspects of the second novel, The Vampire Lestat, but those aspects are not the primary focus. It is considered a sequel to the 1994 film, The Interview with the Vampire.
The film is about Lestat waking up from an extended slumber and becoming a rockstar. His new public persona causes unrest among other vampires and his music wakes up the Queen of the Damned. Lestat then has to fight other vampires who are upset about his publicity while also being offered a crown by the Queen herself.
6 Worst: Lestat (No Rating)
The short film entitled “Lestat” is actually a stage-produced musical also called Lestat, based on the character from The Vampire Chronicles. The stage musical’s book was written by Linda Woolverton, with lyrics by Bernie Taupin, and music by Elton John. In spite of this, the filmed version, which has an IMDb entry but not a Rotten Tomatoes entry, only credits Rice as the writer.
The musical chronicles Lestat’s origin story as a vampire. According to the IMDb entry, the short film was created in order to project it at the Palace Theatre on Broadway. It is unclear if parts of the musical or the entire musical were filmed and projected. Since “Lestat” is categorized as a short film, it is more likely the former than the latter.
5 Best: The Young Messiah (47%)
The Young Messiah is a film adaptation of Rice’s book entitled Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. As the titles of the film and novel indicate, both fall under Christian fiction and they depict Jesus’s life as a child, around seven or eight-years-old.
The Young Messiah chronicles Jesus and his family’s return from Egypt to Nazareth. It is during this time that Jesus, according to the film, figures out that he is the son of God and what that role entails for him. He also learns of his healing abilities, how and when to use them, and he witnesses the corruption of the world for the first time.
4 Worst: Rag And Bone (No Rating)
Rag and Bone was a television series for which Anne Rice wrote the pilot. The series was intended to be a horror and crime drama. The pilot aired on CBS but the show never continued after the pilot’s airing.
The show, particularly the pilot, followed a priest who was implicated in a shooting and the subsequent murder by the New Orleans Police Department. The priest then has to set out to clear his name. The show used horror tropes such as a haunting but then also turns this trope on its head by depicting as the haunting spirit aiding the priest on his quest to prove his innocence.
3 Best: Interview With The Vampire (62%)
Even though Interview with the Vampire is an adaptation of the novel of the same name which is the first novel in The Vampire Chronicles series. It is (surprisingly) the second-highest rated adaptation of Anne Rice’s works, it is probably the most well-known.
It depicts Louis and Lestat’s lives as vampires after Lestat turned Louis. They are eventually joined by Claudia, a ten-year-old who was also turned by Lestat and raised by Lestat and Louis like a daughter. The two vampires also face the difficulties that come from being a ten-year-old with vampire strength. The story is narrated as Louis, who is shown at the beginning and the end of the film to be interviewed by a writer.
2 Worst: Earth Angels (No Rating)
The television show Earth Angels aired its pilot on NBC but was never picked up for a full series, similar to Rag and Bone on CBS. While Earth Angels is not based on any of Rice’s books, she is credited with creating and writing the concept and the story treatment. The treatment itself has been published and featured in Anne Rice’s Tale of the Body Thief, a comic book series.
The show’s premise revolved around angels living on Earth and warring with each other in the classic good versus evil fashion. The show is either so unknown or so poor in quality that Rotten Tomatoes administrators and users have not bothered to create an entry for the film, let alone rate and review it.
1 Best: Feast Of All Saints (84%)
Feast of all Saints is a miniseries that aired on Showtime and is an adaptation of Rice’s novel of the same name. It is about the freed people of color, or gen de couleur libres, living in New Orleans during the American Civil War. It more specifically follows Marcel grappling with his place in society as he seeks education and a career.
The television show depicts racial and social issues but through an early 2000s lense, meaning its depictions of such matters likely have not aged well by today’s standards, similar to other films and television shows dealing with the same issues and written and produced by white people.
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