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Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned (2002)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 105

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

16

Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 26

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

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

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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

R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Horror

Scott Abbott, Giulio Petroni

Aug 27, 2002

$30.3M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Queen of the Damned

All Critics (128) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (108) | 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 | Comment
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 | Comment
Scott Foundas
Variety
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The film is vampire roadkill.

August 14, 2007 Comment
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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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 | Comment
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 Comment
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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... too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film.

March 4, 2002 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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Oh, boy, is this ever a doozy!

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
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 | Comment
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 | Comment
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 | Comment
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 | Comment
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 | Comment
Emanuel Levy
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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 | Comment
Time Out Source: Time Out

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

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
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 | Comment
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 Comment
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) | Comment
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 | Comment
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

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

May 20, 2003 Comment
Tyler Hanley
Palo Alto Weekly

For a horror film that is supposed to have thrills and lots of gore, one is left feeling they went to see a comedy for all the nonsense there is.

May 13, 2003 Full Review Source: BlackFilm.com | Comment
Wilson Morales
BlackFilm.com
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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

January 9, 2012
TheDudeLebowski65
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

A totally different type of Vampire film to The interview with the Vampire. It uses the same character Lestat from the first, who now awakes in current times, and decides to become a rock star....much to the anger of many other Vampires. It was an ok film, pity it didn't have a better story, or bigger budget. The

July 2, 2007
Deano78
Dean !

Super Reviewer

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