AMC's Interview with the Vampire is still months away. These shows and movies will help vampire fans deal with the wait.

Anne Rice's classic gothic horror novel, Interview with the Vampire tells how Louis de Pointe du Lac was turned into a vampire by the charismatic Lestat de Lioncourt in 19th-century New Orleans. While the plot for the new AMC series based on the book is still under wraps, given the source material, it's not difficult to speculate on specific plot points given the popularity of the source material.

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AMC's Interview with the Vampire is slated to premiere this fall, and for fans of Rice's Vampire Chronicles, the way will be long and tough. Thankfully, there are various movies and TV shows with similar elements to Interview with the Vampire that fans eagerly awaiting the show's premiere can watch in the meantime.

For a realistic portrayal of New Orleans, the HBO series Treme is the show to watch. The story takes place three months after Hurricane Katrina, and centers on how residents from various walks of life work to rebuild their city and culture.

Treme was critically acclaimed and met with high praise from New Orleans natives. Shot on location in The Big Easy, the series features different parts of the city, rather than just the popular tourist spots, such as the French Quarter. The show also showcased musical performances from several New Orleans groups and artists.

When the Interview with the Vampire series was announced, fans were eager to see who would be cast as the fan-favorite, Lestat de Lioncourt. The part went to Sam Reid, an Australian actor who has mainly worked on TV miniseries but is best known for his role as John Davinier in the British period piece Belle.

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Belle is based on the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle and her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, the subjects of the 1779 Kenwood House painting. Reid plays Dido's love interest and is prominently featured in the movie. Reid's performance in Belle will help audiences become familiar with him before Interview with the Vampire premieres this fall on AMC.

Jacob Anderson is set to play Lestat's vampire fledgling and companion Louis de Pointe du Lac. Fans of HBO's popular fantasy series Game of Thrones will recognize Anderson as Grey Worm, the commander of the Unsullied; the army that Daenarys Targarayn enlists to help her in her quest to take the Iron Throne. Anderson's Grey Worm quickly became a fan favorite after he first appeared in Season 3 of Game of Thrones. Anderson became a series regular and stayed with HBO's hit series until the end.

In this campy and action-packed adaption, Dracula 2000 brought Bran Stoker's classic characters into the new millennium. Starring Gerard Butler as Dracula and Christopher Plummer as Abraham Van Helsing, the film begins with a heist gone wrong when the thieves accidentally awaken an imprisoned Dracula.

Dracula haunts the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras, seeking Van Helsing's daughter, Mary, with whom he shares a telepathic link. Dracula 2000 features classic tropes from the Dracula tale, such as the Brides, vampire hunters, and a modern version of Lucy.

Witchcraft is one of the paranormal elements featured in most of New Orleans's local legends, and American Horror Story: Coven, which was shot in New Orleans, including the Garden District and the French Quarter, shares a similar gothic horror sensibility that can be found in Anne Rice's novels.

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In the third season of Ryan Murphy's horror anthology, American Horror Story, the hidden world of witches and their deep-seated history with New Orleans is told. The story centers around Miss Robichaux's Academy, a school for young witches in New Orleans Garden District that teaches them how to use their gifts.

While Anne Rice is famously known for her Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches book series, she also wrote other works that do not delve into the supernatural. Rice's historical novel Feast of All Saints was published in 1979, then later adapted into a TV movie for Showtime in 2001.

Feast of All Saints takes place in nineteenth-century New Orleans and follows the story of the gens de couleur or Free People of Color. Feast of All Saints includes an ensemble cast that includes Robert Ri'chard, Peter Gallagher, Gloria Reuben, James Earl Jones, and the late Earth Kitt.

The 1943 classic horror film Son of Dracula is the third movie in Universal's Dracula series, following 1936's Dracula's Daughter. Son of Dracula follows the mysterious Count Alcucrd as he travels from Hungary to New Orleans at the request of Katherine Caldwell, a wealthy southern heiress obsessed with the occult.

Son of Dracula is credited as the first of Universal's Dracula films to take Count Dracula out of Europe and set him in America. The film has received mixed reviews from critics and fans throughout the years but should still be on any classic monster movie fan's watch list.

New Orleans is an old city known for jazz, delicious food, and a long history with close ties to the supernatural. The CW paranormal investigation show Mysteries Decoded traveled to New Orleans to explore one of the city's most infamous urban legends. In Season 1, Episode 8, "Vampires of New Orleans," the story of Jacques St. Germain, the alleged Vampire of New Orleans, is investigated. This episode of Mysteries Decoded also explores the vampire sub-culture and any scientific evidence that could prove vampires do exist.

Queen of the Damned is a loose adaption of the third novel of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles of the same name. This 2002 horror/fantasy film also draws story elements from The Vampire Lestat, the second book of The Vampire Chronicles.

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After spending centuries in a sleep-like state, Lestat (Stuart Townsend) is awakened by the sound of modern rock music. Believing this is the way to get the attention he has always craved, Lestat soon becomes one of the most famous rock stars in the world; however, his music awakens Akasha, the mother of all vampires. Akasha (Aaliyah) seeks to make Lestat her king so that she can rebuild the empire she once ruled over in Ancient Egypt, with vampires having dominion over mortals.

Neil Jordan's 1994 film Interview with the Vampire took Anne Rice's classic novel and brought it to the big screen. Starring Tom Cruise as Lestat de Lioncourt and Brad Pitt as Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire is told from Louis's point of view, just like in the novel, covering his mortal days through the years he spent with Lestat and their child turned vampire, Claudia (Kristen Dunst), in 18th-19th centuries.

Anne Rice initially criticized the casting, believing that Pitt and Cruise should switch roles since she was concerned Tom Cruise wouldn't be a good fit for Lestat. However, Rice eventually approved the casting choices once she watched the finished film. While this is a fairly obvious choice, watching Interview with the Vampire is a great way to prepare for the TV version premiering on AMC this fall.

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