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"Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure"

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Boll’s line lands like a shrug aimed at prestige: a deliberately clumsy reduction of a revered, moody property into its most clickable ingredient. Calling Interview with the Vampire "lots of sex" isn’t just a misread; it’s a provocation. He strips away the gothic melancholy and queer-coded longing that made Anne Rice’s vampire world culturally sticky, and replaces it with the bluntest possible metric of relevance. The payoff is the offhand tag, "so I’m not sure" - a refusal to perform certainty, which is also a performance. Boll’s persona has long thrived on antagonism, on treating taste-making institutions and fan reverence as things to kick, not court.

The intent here is less critique than preemptive disarmament. By framing the film as sex-forward, he positions himself as the practical guy in the room, skeptical of romantic mythologizing and allergic to earnest fandom. It’s also a quiet marketing instinct: sex is shorthand for "this sold for reasons you won’t admit", which lets him needle both purists and moralists at once.

Context matters because Boll is a director whose brand was built in the churn of mid-2000s adaptation culture, where "faithful" was a cudgel and outrage was oxygen. This quote reads like someone who understands that in pop discourse, controversy is a form of currency - and that acting unsure can be the sharpest way to sound dismissive.

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Boll, Uwe. (2026, January 15). Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/interview-with-a-vampire-was-lots-of-sex-so-im-148137/

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Boll, Uwe. "Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/interview-with-a-vampire-was-lots-of-sex-so-im-148137/.

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"Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/interview-with-a-vampire-was-lots-of-sex-so-im-148137/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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Uwe Boll (born June 22, 1965) is a Director from Germany.

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