Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned (2002)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (128 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (239,715 ratings)

The second and third novels in author Anne Rice's popular book series The Vampire Chronicles provide the inspiration for this horror sequel starring ill-fated actress and recording artist Aaliyah, who was killed in an airplane crash before the film's release. Stuart Townsend is the vampire… More

R,
Directed By
Written By
Scott Abbott, Giulio Petroni
Genres
Horror
In Theaters
Feb 22, 2002 Wide
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader

    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.

  • Scott Foundas, Variety

    It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    The film is vampire roadkill.

  • , Time Out

    Rice's complex, sprawling novel is rendered virtually incomprehensible by a combination of lacklustre direction, risible dialogue and shoddy effects.

  • Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    Cannot understand why my fellow vampire lovers raved about this movie. It's so bad. The special effects, music, acting, story, and uh, well almost everything about it was bad. The only thing slightly redeeming it, is the mood it creates. Unfortunately there isn't a good… More

  • Jeff "


    Queen of the Damned is a terrible vampire film based on the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. As a fan of vampire films, I thought that this film simply a missed opportunity to create something good. The film fails on so many levels. The cast is horrible and the plot is unimpressive.… More

  • Dean !


    A totally different type of Vampire film to The interview with the Vampire. It uses the same character Lestat from the first, who now awakes in current times, and decides to become a rock star....much to the anger of many other Vampires. It was an ok film, pity it didn't have a… More

  • Coxxie M


    Starring: Mr. "the crow part 2" aaaaaand Ms. hot black but not totally black singer chick who died in that awful plane crash but makes up for being a dead person by playing a dead vampire and not very well but its ok cause shes only in the film for the last ten minutes and… More

  • Bannan i


    soudtrack rocks..movie's meh...

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