Queen of the Damned Movie Review 2002

Based on the third book in Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" resurrects vampire Lestat (Townsend) to rock the new millennium after a 200-year nap. He's awakened to become the singing sensation of a goth band (what's more goth than a vampire?). He soon meets up with Jesse (Moreau) a reckless vampire researcher and fellow vampires Marius (Perez), and Maharet (Olin). Lestat's new lady love, however, is Akasha (late pop star Aaliyah), the mother of all the vampires who has big plans for her and her bloodsucking beau, to, (what else?) rule the world. Her followers feel differently, however. Camp, but not camp enough to excuse it's lameness and host of lifeless performances. One dimensional characters and lackluster plot leave this drag of a Queen to Rice and vampire fans only.

Distribution

Warner Home Video, Inc., 5775 Linder Canyon Rd., Westlake Village, CA 91362, URL: http://whv.warnerbros.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 101 minutes.
Originally from United States, Australian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Vampires, Vampire Babes, Books to Film: Anne Rice, Rock Flicks

Screenplay

Scott Abbott

Cast

Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez, Lena Olin, Paul McGann, Claudia Black, Bruce Spence, Christian Manon

Cinematography

Ian Baker

Director

Michael Rymer

Music

Richard Gibbs, Jonathan Davis

Other

David Lee, Frank Fitzpatrick, Rich Dickerson, Danny Cooper, Tom Nursey, Angus Strathie, Graham Walker

Producer

Jorge Saralegui, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Warner Bros.