Queen of the Damned
vampire Lestat, has awakened from a century-long slumber and turned his energy to rock music. His identity mistaken for a hard rock publicity stunt. Lestat's powerful music reaches the ear of the slumbering Akasha, 'queen of the vampires' who was the first immortal bloodsucker. Akasha is soon free and embarking on a quest to seize control of the world with Lestat at her side.
22 January 1977, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
19 October 1958
1981, Australia
29 November 1940, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
7 October 1970
11 October 1972, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
18 January 1971, Bakersfield, California, USA
13 May 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
10 January 1974, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
September 22, 2007
Whatever life there is to the movie is what [Aaliyah] brings to it.
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.
April 29, 2009
Aaliyah is gorgeous, but that doesn't save the film's tedious pacing, and cheesy atmosphere in the end.
February 09, 2006
Rice's complex, sprawling novel is rendered virtually incomprehensible by a combination of lacklustre direction, risible dialogue and shoddy effects.
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.
January 21, 2003
Screenwriters Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni have turned Rice's complex Akasha into a cartoon monster.
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.
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.
August 14, 2007
The film is vampire roadkill.
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.
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.
