Queen of the Damned (2002)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 128
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 106
A muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 29
A muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents.
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The second and third novels in author Anne Rice's popular book series The Vampire Chronicles provide the inspiration for this horror sequel starring ill-fated actress and recording artist Aaliyah, who was killed in an airplane crash before the film's release. Stuart Townsend is the vampire Lestat, who has awakened from a century-long slumber and turned his considerable energy to rock music. His vampirism identity mistaken for a gothic hard rock publicity stunt along the lines of Kiss or Marilyn
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Cast
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Aaliyah
Queen Akasha -
Stuart Townsend
Lestat -
Vincent Perez
Marius -
Paul McGann
David Talbot -
Lena Olin
Maharet -
Christian Manon
Mael -
Claudia Black
Pandora -
Bruce Spence
Khayman -
Franklyn Ajaye
French Dealer -
Imogen Annesley
Club Vampire -
John Dicks
Talamascans -
Bob Farnham
Alex -
Russell Kiefel
Fire Marshall -
Marguerite Moreau
Jesse Reeves -
Pip Mushin
Guy being sucked -
Bruce Myles
Talamascan -
Hugo Race
Vampire Bass Player -
Bobby Bright
Sound Engineer -
John Buckley
French Journalist -
Humphrey Bower
Nigel -
Suzi Dougherty
Pale Faced Vampire -
Tayler Kane
Club Vampire -
Tiriel Mora
Roger -
Anni Finsterer
Euro Trash Vampire -
Dino Marnika
Music Journalist -
Peter Olsen
Enkil -
Jonathan Davis
Scalper -
Andrew L. Urban
Himself -
Serena Altschul
Herself -
Miguel Ayesa
New York Vampires -
Michael Azria
VW Driver -
Ron Bingham
Businessman -
Robin Casinader
Vampire Pianist -
Johnathan Deboy
James -
Megan Dorman
Maudy -
Marg Downey
Talamascan -
Nicole Fantl
London Groupie -
Strawberry Fields
Girl with businessman -
Nalishebo Gaskell
West Indian Girl -
Nandila Gaskell
West Indian Girl -
Nick Gill
Band Member -
Antonios Greige
Camel Driver -
Fouad Harraka
Greek Father -
Matthew Hassall
Lestat's Vilonlinist do... -
Karoline Hohlweg
Euro Trash Vampire -
Rowland S. Howard
Vampire Guitarist -
Twapa Kapote
Prostitute -
Chris Kirby
New York Vampires -
Arrowyn Lloyd
VW Passenger -
Enrico Mammerella
Greek fisherman -
Joe Manning
New York Vampires -
Alyssa McClelland
London Groupie -
Kirsty Meares
Lifestyle journalist -
Pia Miranda
Jesse's roomate -
Duncan Myers
Rent Boy -
Aimee Nash
Vampire Singer -
Antony Neate
Euro Trash Vampire -
Mark O'Halloran
Rent Boy -
Nicola Paull
Flight Attendant -
Renee Quast
Vampire Girl sucking -
Tamasin Ramsay
Woman Victim -
Marnie Reece-Wilmore
LA Groupie -
Kat Rhodes
Vampire Girl -
Daniel Schlusser
Club Vampire -
Conrad Standish
T.C. -
Richael Tanner
Young Jesse -
Becky Thomas
Band Member -
Mandie Vieira
Young violin player -
Rochelle Ward
Euro Trash Vampire -
Darren Wilson
Sound Engineer -
Simon Wilton
Vampire in the park -
Dan Zizys
Vampire doorman -
Renee de Bondt
Vampire Girl sucking -
Christopher Connelly
Mortal Yuppie -
Matthew Newton
Armand -
Alistair Reid
Euro Trash Vampire
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All Critics (129) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (109) | DVD (23)
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.
It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them.
The film is vampire roadkill.
Rice's complex, sprawling novel is rendered virtually incomprehensible by a combination of lacklustre direction, risible dialogue and shoddy effects.
Top CriticQueen of the Damned leaves us puzzled as to why the term 'damned' applies at all, when vampirism is depicted as so cool, fashion-savvy and glamorous.
The performances are so leaden, Michael Rymer's direction is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience laughs out loud.
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.
Aaliyah is gorgeous, but that doesn't save the film's tedious pacing, and cheesy atmosphere in the end.
Aaliyah makes a brief but memorable posthumous appearance about an hour into the nearly incoherent proceedings, which are riddled with unintentional guffaws.
Whatever life there is to the movie is what [Aaliyah] brings to it.
Perhaps the sole reason to see this film is to pay final tribute to Aaliyah. Too bad it isn't a better movie.
Wishy-washy and hampered by cliche, sitting through this is like enduring a vampire life: it's one long wait for the end.
Overall this horror picture, based on Rice's novel, is no good, but lead stuart Townsend gives a far more compelling (and properly campy) performance than Tom Cruise did as Lestat in the high-profile companion piece, Interview With the Vampire.
Queen of the Damned is not a good film, but it's definitely a watchable one.
Tom Cruise had the good sense to stay away from reprising his role of Lestat in this film.
Aaliyah steals the show as a villainous vampiric vixen in an otherwise ludicrous waste of a story.
This film should have stayed in its coffin and never seen the light of day.
...the film's disjointed narrative makes it near impossible to ever become completely engrossed.
Anne Rice goes heavy metal in Hollywood's latest installment of bloodsucker cinema.
Audience Reviews for Queen of the Damned
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Super Reviewer
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- David Talbot: He made Lestat.
- Jesse Reeves: How do you know?
- David Talbot: I have Lestat's journal.
- Jesse Reeves: I wanna see it.
- David Talbot: Only if you promise never to go to that place again.
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- Marius: Elvis?
- Lestat: Elvis, yes.
- Marius: Your bigger than he is now.
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- Lestat: Had a king?
- Queen Akasha: He is no more. Now you are my consort.
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