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Queen of the Damned
The vampire Lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the queen of all vampires who then becomes determined to have him by her side.
26 July 1945, Budapest, Hungary
13 May 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
22 March 1955, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
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.
February 09, 2006
Rice's complex, sprawling novel is rendered virtually incomprehensible by a combination of lacklustre direction, risible dialogue and shoddy effects.
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.
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.
April 29, 2009
Aaliyah is gorgeous, but that doesn't save the film's tedious pacing, and cheesy atmosphere in the end.
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.
September 22, 2007
Whatever life there is to the movie is what [Aaliyah] brings to it.
August 14, 2007
The film is vampire roadkill.
January 21, 2003
Screenwriters Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni have turned Rice's complex Akasha into a cartoon monster.
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.
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.