Belief in vampires and other evil spirits is the more popular, the deeper the crisis of faith in society in general

The plot of the film "Interview with the Vampire"
Cult film by Irish director and producer Neil Jordan . The premiere took place in 1994, the total fees from rental worldwide amounted to $ 223 million.
In the center of the plot is the Louisiana Creole Louis ( Brad Pitt ), who was turned into a vampire in 1791 and decided to tell the story of his life to a young reporter two hundred years later. After the death of his wife in childbirth, Louis seeks death out of desperation, but fate prepares a different fate for him - he becomes a vampire of his own free will. Together with their creator Lestat (Tom Cruise ), they move to New Orleans, where the plague is raging at this time. Here Louis is trying to feast on the blood of the little girl Claudia ( Kirsten Dunst ), who lost her mother. Lestat does not let the girl die and turns her into a little vampire in order to keep Louis near him.
As Claudia matures, her relationship with Louis becomes more romantic. In the end, Louis and Claudia decide to kill Lestat in revenge for making Claudia a never-growing child, and escape on a ship to Paris. In the Old World, they have a great time until they meet a whole clan of vampires, led by the oldest vampire on earth Arman . However, this acquaintance soon turns into a lynching of vampires over Claudia due to the fact that she was the initiator of the murder of her own kind.
Louis saves Armand , wanting him to become his guide to the changed world of people. But Louis, saddened by the death of his beloved Claudia , takes cruel revenge on a group of vampires, refuses Armand and returns to New Orleans. There he meets Lestat , who nevertheless survived, but leaves him too, preferring to wander alone. The reporter, who writes down the vampire's revelations about his life, is also denied eternal company by Louis, which cannot be said about Lestat , who suddenly appeared in the final picture .
So, below are the destructive tendencies inherent in modern vampire cinema. But before we move on to the analysis of the images shown in the film, we note the main thing :
The essence of any vampire is parasitic without alternative - that is, to live by killing others. For this reason, the image of vampires in films, like any other evil that, due to the artistic framework, has no chance of being corrected/returning to human, non-parasitic life, should be portrayed as extremely unpleasant, outwardly repulsive and unambiguously negative. And if we remember that vampires are usually also defined as “an inanimate/dead entity, undead”, then the disgusting image of a “ghoul”, “ghoul”, traditional for us, fits this set of fundamental qualities inherent in a character.