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Name: Queen of the Damned
Released: 2002-2-22
Cast: Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez, Lena Olin

Queen of the Damned

R
1h 41m
2002

17%

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After a decades-long slumber, the vampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music awakens the queen of all vampires, Akasha, who embarks on a mission to make Lestat her king. But a young London woman with a gift for the occult falls in love with Lestat and wields a far greater power than the vampires expect. Based on "The Vampire Chronicles" by Anne Rice.

Director:

Michael Rymer

Producer:

Jorge Saralegui, Su Armstrong, Andrew Mason, Bill Gerber, Bruce Berman

Writer:

Scott Abbott, Michael Petroni

Cast:

Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez, Lena Olin, Matthew Newton

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

17%

Critics Consensus: A muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents.

Reviews

Black Girl Nerds

Cassondra Feltus

'Queen of the Damned' is considered a bad adaptation, over-the-top silly, and just a poorly structured film in general. All are true. However, many, myself included, see it more as a disasterpiece, a guilty pleasure, a piece of 2000s nu metal nostalgia.

The result is a film that's as camp as Butlins but nowhere near as much fun and full of awful performances and silly dialogue

It's mainly an excuse for director Michael Rymer to unleash his arsenal of flashy, MTV-type visuals and Moulin Rouge costume designer Angus Strathie to play dress-up.

It's difficult to make a truly boring vampire picture, but the folks behind this draggy adaptation of Anne Rice's bestsellers The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned have done just that.

Michael Rymer stages high-tech sequences combining gore, romance, and gothy music, and he has enough conviction to make what could have been very silly strangely provocative.

August 16, 2017

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