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Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned (2002)

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17

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.

15

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.

audience

70

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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 239,715

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Movie Info

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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Horror

Scott Abbott, Giulio Petroni

Aug 27, 2002

$30.3M

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Critic Reviews for Queen of the Damned

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.

October 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader
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It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them.

September 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety
Scott Foundas
Variety
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The film is vampire roadkill.

August 14, 2007
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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Rice's complex, sprawling novel is rendered virtually incomprehensible by a combination of lacklustre direction, risible dialogue and shoddy effects.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Queen 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.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune
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The performances are so leaden, Michael Rymer's direction is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience laughs out loud.

March 13, 2002
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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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.

September 26, 2012 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

Aaliyah is gorgeous, but that doesn't save the film's tedious pacing, and cheesy atmosphere in the end.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Aaliyah makes a brief but memorable posthumous appearance about an hour into the nearly incoherent proceedings, which are riddled with unintentional guffaws.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review

Whatever life there is to the movie is what [Aaliyah] brings to it.

September 22, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Perhaps the sole reason to see this film is to pay final tribute to Aaliyah. Too bad it isn't a better movie.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

Wishy-washy and hampered by cliche, sitting through this is like enduring a vampire life: it's one long wait for the end.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

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.

December 20, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Queen of the Damned is not a good film, but it's definitely a watchable one.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Michael Dequina
Film Threat

Tom Cruise had the good sense to stay away from reprising his role of Lestat in this film.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat
Gareth J. Von Kallenbach
Film Threat

Aaliyah steals the show as a villainous vampiric vixen in an otherwise ludicrous waste of a story.

January 15, 2004
Andrew Manning
Radio Free Entertainment

This film should have stayed in its coffin and never seen the light of day.

January 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

...the film's disjointed narrative makes it near impossible to ever become completely engrossed.

November 30, 2003 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Anne Rice goes heavy metal in Hollywood's latest installment of bloodsucker cinema.

May 20, 2003
Tyler Hanley
Palo Alto Weekly
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Cannot understand why my fellow vampire lovers raved about this movie. It's so bad. The special effects, music, acting, story, and uh, well almost everything about it was bad. The only thing slightly redeeming it, is the mood it creates. Unfortunately there isn't a good story to follow when you get into it. I'm sure the book was a lot better.
March 7, 2013
ajv2688
AJ Verser

Super Reviewer

Queen of the Damned is a terrible vampire film based on the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. As a fan of vampire films, I thought that this film simply a missed opportunity to create something good. The film fails on so many levels. The cast is horrible and the plot is unimpressive. As a vampire film, Queen of the Damned is one of the worst that I've seen. This had the potential of being a great horror flick, unfortunately the film just doesn't deliver. The plot is poorly constructed and uninteresting Aaliyah is horrible in the lead, and she's not really convincing in the role. As a matter of fact she really can't act.. The film isn't effective as a horror film, and definitely isn't as memorable as so many other vampire films that came before it. Director Michael Rymer's directing is sloppy, and the end product is a film that is dull, boring, silly and overall a waste of time. Queen of the damned had the potential of being a great film, however due to a bad script, bad cast and bad directing, this film never does succeed at being a good vampire flick. The only thing that the film succeeds at doing is being a forgettable vampire film. As a whole, this film just doesn't cut it, and offers nothing new to the genre. This an entirely forgettable film that is simply put a waste of time. If you enjoy a good vampire film, you won't find it here. This film is awful.
January 9, 2012
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

Queen of the Damned Quotes

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    1. David Talbot: He made Lestat.
    2. Jesse Reeves: How do you know?
    3. David Talbot: I have Lestat's journal.
    4. Jesse Reeves: I wanna see it.
    5. David Talbot: Only if you promise never to go to that place again.
    – Submitted by Prissy E (4 months ago)
    1. Marius: Elvis?
    2. Lestat: Elvis, yes.
    3. Marius: Your bigger than he is now.
    – Submitted by Prissy E (4 months ago)
    1. Lestat: Had a king?
    2. Queen Akasha: He is no more. Now you are my consort.
    – Submitted by Prissy E (4 months ago)

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