Queen of the Damned
8,530
Horror. Fantasy
After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king...
Author | Review | ||
---|---|---|---|
United States | USA Today | "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)." | NEG |
United States | New York Post | "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" | NEU |
United States | Philadelphia Inquirer | "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." | NEG |
United States | Boston Globe | 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" | NEU |
Canada | The Globe and Mail | "When 'Queen of the Damned' knows it's ridiculous, it's moderately entertaining fun; when it tries to be serious, it's truly ridiculous" | NEU |
United States | Chicago Reader | "The result is an exploitation movie that seems like it's about something -- though what exactly I couldn't say." | NEG |
United States | ReelViews | "Like many genuinely awful movies, Queen of the Damned has the ingredients of a cult film" | NEG |
United States | The Washington Post | "Although the movie is set in the rock world and, therefore, should be a sort of extended music video, it's devoid of even MTV-caliber originality." | NEG |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "A vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms" | NEG |
We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.