Queen of the Damned

"When 'Queen of the Damned' knows it's ridiculous, it's moderately entertaining fun; when it tries to be serious, it's truly ridiculous"

"If you're going because you want to see an entertaining horror movie, good luck. (...) Only Lena Olin, in a vampire role so small that you forget she's in the movie, matches Aaliyah's flair. The rest is so dull (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)."

"Aaliyah rules as the undead Queen of the Damned, even if she has scarcely half an hour of screen time in this campy Anne Rice vampire tale"

"At its best, Queen is campy fun like the Vincent Price horror classics of the '60s. At its worst, it implodes in a series of very bad special effects."

Degenerates into a lot of dull declaiming and attitudinizing, despite a sly tongue-in-cheek quality brought by a preening Stuart Townsend to the Lestat role"

"The result is an exploitation movie that seems like it's about something -- though what exactly I couldn't say."

"Like many genuinely awful movies, Queen of the Damned has the ingredients of a cult film"