Louis de Pointe's epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to the journalist Daniel Molloy. Chafing at the limitations of life as a black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat De Lioncourt's offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion.
This tv show contains 92 potentially triggering events.
Not on screen but in episode 3 Lestat mentions that Louis drained a dog. There is a dog on the train in episode 6 and it's a tense moment but it does not die..
A crying, pleading woman is forced on stage at the Theatre des Vampires and killed by vampires in front of an audience as she screams. It's clearly done as a spectacle within the story.
Lestat is abusive towards his partner and child, and it is routinely brought up that he had an abusive childhood and traumatic life that influences his behavior
Armand and Louis get into an argument which results in Louis attempting suicide and Armand torturing a young Daniel for 5 days before trying to kill him, and afterwards Armand erases both Louis and Daniel’s memories of this and repeatedly lies to them to cover it up
During the dinner scene in episode 1, Lestat is briefly triggered by Paul’s questions and mentions previous physical child abuse by his father and brothers. In episode 4, Claudia briefly mentions having been physically abused by her aunt.
The fox scene in season 1 episode 2 is hard to watch. While clearly fake, the fox is bound on a plate and it screams a lot. In season 1 episode 3, Louis bites and drains two squealing rats. In season 1 episode 5, Louis eats a squealing rat. In season 2 episode 1, Louis eats another rat that squeals when he bites it. In season 2 episode 2, Louis drains a pigeon or dove while it screams and then tosses its body onto a fire. He does it later again in the episode, mostly offscreen. In season 3 episode 3, a fish is served on a plate still alive, then killed and eaten.
In season 1 episode 2, a live (fake) screaming fox with its legs bound is served to Louis on a platter. He drinks its blood and kills it. In season 1 episode 5, doves are shown fluttering around with their wings intentionally broken. Rats and birds throughout the series and a cat (season 1 episode 3) cry out in pain when Louis bites into them. In season 3 episode 3, a fish is served on a plate still alive, and rats are kept locked in a box to feed on corpses.
In season 1 episode 3, Louis eats a cat. He grabs it suddenly and bites into it while it yowls. You don't see much because it's a dark scene but the sound is upsetting. The scene happens from roughly 5:10-5:25. In season 2 episode 8, Louis is in a crypt and a very decayed mammal is briefly shown. It's hard to tell what it is, but Louis meows at it, implying it's a dead cat.
Kind of drugged. In the flashback to the first interview Daniel provokes Louis, causing Louis to attack him and drink his blood. Daniel was high off a variety of drugs at the time, and Louis unintentionally becomes under the influence after drinking his blood, one of the events that builds up to his suicide attempt.
There is an attempted rape on-screen by multiple people. The character is held down and her clothes are about to be pulled off, but she is saved before anything further happens.
A vampire is burned alive in season 1 episode 7. A vampire burns herself alive in season 2 episode 1. A man burns alive in the background at the very end of season 2 episode 2. Armand burns a vampire alive in season 2 episode 3. A vampire tries to kill himself in season 2 episode 5 and is badly burned in the aftermath. In season 2 episode 7, two vampires are burned alive in a slow, horrifying scene. Many vampires are burned alive in season 2 episode 8.
Louis is forced into a coffin and it's filled with rocks so he can't move and will starve to death. It's implied that this is the fate of all the vampires who were walled up in the crypt. They show his face being buried by the rocks so it could be triggering for those sensitive to live burial scenes.
Episode 7, a man's lower jaw is ripped entirely off. Another man's eyeball is ripped out and dropped onto the floor, there's a brief shot of his face after. And this counts as body horror, a man's skull is punched entirely through
Claudia removes fingers and toes from her victims as souvenirs. A finger is severed in episode 6 and later it's revealed that the person is still alive.
Lestat punches his fist through a man's head near the end of season 1 episode 1. A vampire's head is repeatedly smashed with a rock in season 2 episode 1. Louis smashes a man's head repeatedly into a wall in season 2 episode 3.
A man stumbles and then falls to the ground from blood loss, another man towards the end of the episode is slowly drained of blood and looks to have passed out
Arguably, every time Lestat kills he tortures his victims in some way. In episode 3 he breaks a man's spine so that he's still alive but aware and in pain. Meanwhile, he and Louis are arguing about killing him.
Near the end of episode 1, Lestat punches through the head of a priest. Near the end of episode 3, a man is shown impaled on a fence with the bottom half of his body ripped off.
Claudia, a teen not an infant, could be seen to be - she's taken from her home to live with lestat and Louis (though it is burning down and we are informed she has no guardians anymore as her aunt dies in the fire)
There are a few tense minutes in Episode 2 where it seems like Louis might have eaten a baby— he holds the baby and begins baring his fangs involuntarily, and when it cuts back to the present day he repeatedly dodges the question of whether he ate him. He did not, however, and left the house before he could do any harm. In episode 4, Claudia is technically killed when she is turned into a vampire, but she is undead.
spoilers ///////// a vampire who was turned as a teenager recalls being sexualized when she was younger, discusses her fears of only predators and young boys being attracted to her even as she mentally ages, and is assaulted (off screen, after a tense scene, and it’s discussed multiple times)
A character is continually accompanied by a character who has passed, and no one else can see them. It's not a ghost, just a manifestation of the character's grief, however it does read like a haunting. The apparition character is present throughout season 2.
Louis and Claudia take a boat out in the bayou. It is night time, so the water isn't extremely visible, but it is still obvious they are on a rather large body of water
It's not really outing, but in the first episode Louis' brother, Paul, asks Lestat what his relations are with his brother at dinner in front of their whole family and it gets silent and awkward - like they kinda realize...
Louis' brother has some kind of mental illness, probably schizophrenia, but hard to say since he lived in the 1910s. In season 2 Daniel asks Louis if he's schizophrenic (because he's had very vivid hallucinations) and Louis answers no after a small pause. It is left ambiguous if he's schizophrenic but he's at least mentally unwell.
In episode 1, Louis sticks his arm in front of the sun, causing it to burn. He does not do this out of suicidal intent. In episode 2, Lestat cuts his finger to mark a page with blood. Claudia self-harms by sticking her arm in a beam of sunlight at the end of episode 4.
In episode 1, Louis pushes his mentally ill brother in an attempt to get him to go home, prompting his brother to punch him. The two fight only briefly.
In episode 6, Louis dissociates while having sex with Lestat and says, "The numbness remained, hardened somehow into a dissociative shell, a vessel of acceptance, tortured rationalization."
Lots of flashing lights at the start of the first scene in the theater. They start right after Louis and Claudia sit down and last about 10-15 seconds. They do not reoccurr.
Louis has a romantic rendezvous with an old flame. He later learns that Lestat was in the woods watching them. We do not see Lestat watching them during the scene.
Louis’ sister is pregnant in episode 2, and then there is a six month timeskip to Louis visiting her and meeting her third baby. He struggles with resisting the impulse to eat the baby (it looks like he’s going to for a second), but leaves before he can do any harm.
Nazis and the holocaust are referenced a few times in later episodes since the time period starts to approach World War 2, though I don’t think the terrors inflicted upon Jewish folks are ever brought up
Not by the show but in S2E7, Louis is portrayed as a racist caricature by the coven during the trial, insisting that he's aggressive and dangerous and that he seduced Lestat who's completely innocent.
Paul kills himself halfway ep 1, which sets het whole story in motion. He is the first character to die, though his death has nothing to do with his blackness
When Lestat has dinner with Louis’ family, Louis’ brother asks Lestat if he’s a religious man. Lestat goes into an increasingly enraged rant about how he used to be a man of god and then was abandoned by god. It’s a little intense.
sorta? depends on whether you count vampires as demons, they're refered to as demons or devils often but it is implied it's not specifically connected to religion, just metaphors or insutls
Actors and actresses are shown with their shirts off and partially nude throughout the show. It’s not overly gratuitous but worthy of taking note of if that’s something that bothers you
There’s no actual incest but there are references to the idea of it occasionally to reenforce themes of unsettled family dynamics. In episode 6 I believe, Claudia, an adult vampire in the body of a teenager, says to her adopted vampire dads that they’re the only people who will ever see her as an adult and therefore her only potential romantic partners. She didn’t mean this statement as a proposition but rather an expression of the morbidity of her circumstance, but this can be understandably uncomfortable and disturbing to ppl, especially those with incest triggers
The first episode has a prolonged sex scene between Louis, Lestat, and Lily. Nudity is only seen from the waist up or from behind. Episode 3 has waist-up nudity around 15:10-15:15 and a sex scene around 24:20, though no actual sex is seen.
not prolonged, but the camera pans away from louis and lestat alternate between having sex and hurting each other (they handle each other roughly, shove each other, and louis stabs lestat)
Watching on Prime Video, there are preview scenes for the next episode after the credits and then also a brief behind the scenes clip for the episode after that.
There is a lot of drinking blood in this show, since it's about vampires. If you can't handle that, this is not the show for you. There is also some gore at the end of ep 1 where Lestat punches through the head of a priest. It's only visible for a couple of seconds.