Queen of the Damned
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 Manson, he quickly becomes a pop music sensation. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king...
17 September 1945, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand
10 January 1974, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
25 July 1966, Canberra, Australia
15 December 1972, Howth, County Dublin, Ireland
22 March 1955, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
22 January 1977, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
23 July 1947, England, UK
11 September 1975, Sydney, Australia
26 July 1945, Budapest, Hungary
August 07, 2008
Aaliyah makes a brief but memorable posthumous appearance about an hour into the nearly incoherent proceedings, which are riddled with unintentional guffaws.
September 15, 2008
It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them.
July 20, 2002
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.
September 22, 2007
Whatever life there is to the movie is what [Aaliyah] brings to it.
February 08, 2014
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.
October 20, 2009
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 14, 2007
The film is vampire roadkill.
April 29, 2009
Aaliyah is gorgeous, but that doesn't save the film's tedious pacing, and cheesy atmosphere in the end.
January 21, 2003
Screenwriters Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni have turned Rice's complex Akasha into a cartoon monster.
December 30, 2006
Perhaps the sole reason to see this film is to pay final tribute to Aaliyah. Too bad it isn't a better movie.
February 09, 2006
Rice's complex, sprawling novel is rendered virtually incomprehensible by a combination of lacklustre direction, risible dialogue and shoddy effects.
