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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.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Queen of the Damned
The mother of all vampires.
2002 · 1h 41m · R
Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Directed by
Michael Rymer
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Queen of the Damned
Overview
Vampire Lestat awakens from his slumber and becomes a rock star. But chaos strikes when his music awakens Akasha, the vampire queen, who may not rest until she makes Lestat her new king.
Director and cast
- Michael Rymer Director
- Aaliyah as Akasha
- Stuart Townsend as Lestat de Lioncourt
- Marguerite Moreau as Jessica 'Jesse' Reeves
- Vincent Perez as Marius de Romanus
- Paul McGann as David Talbot
- Lena Olin as Maharet
- Claudia Black as Pandora
- Bruce Spence as Khayman
- Christian Manon as Mael
- Matthew Newton as Armand
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
17%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them.
Scott Foundas, Variety
Rotten
The film is vampire roadkill.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
Screenwriters Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni have turned Rice's complex Akasha into a cartoon monster.
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
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.
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune
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