Simply A Masterpiece

Nice effects though.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is a sequel to Interview with a vampire. It is just what we need. Another vampire movie written by Ann Rice not. Interview with a vampire is an awful movie. And this is worst. The evil vampire Lestat became a rock star. Come on that is campy. An evil vampire becomes a rock star. I do not care how mush blood and gore this in this movie. That is really campy. The story line in this movie is awful. There are some good actors in it. But what a waste for there time. How did this get a 5.2. This movie is so stupid. I am running out of things to say and I need more lines. Do not waste your time. Do not waste your money. Do not see this awful movie.

It says on the front cover of the DVD of 'Queen of the Damned' that it is the sequel to 'Interview With a Vampire' – you remember that – the smash hit movie, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Everyone loved that. It was a hit! Unfortunately, 'Queen of the Damned' is only a sequel as it's using some of the same characters (characters, not actors – there's a difference) and set in the same universe, so to speak. Basically, it's not really a sequel. It's another vampire story written by Anne Rice following some of the characters who you might have seen before. Don't expect to see Tom or Brad in this one.However, just because it doesn't really follow on, doesn't make it a bad thing – a disjointed thing, but not a bad thing. But, in some ways, it's not really the film's fault. It's about a vampire who has got disillusioned with drinking people's blood over the centuries and has gone to sleep for hundreds of years. Now he's woken in the modern age and decided to 'out' all the other vampires and their blood-sucking ways. It goes without saying that the rest of the vamps don't take kindly to his outspoken ways and decide to take him out. So where does the Queen come into it? She doesn't. That much. Unfortunately she's only in it for two scenes because the young actress playing her tragically died while the film was being made, leaving the story lacking what should have been a big part of its central element.Plus it doesn't really do the book justice. I haven't read the book. I'm one of the many who just watches the film, but I've generally browsed through enough internet message boards to realise that a lot of die-hard fans of the source material didn't appreciate the transition to film.So, it's got its fair amount of negative points. And yet it's actually quite good. Not great, but somehow highly watchable (if you're into vampires in general). It should all be quite campy and yet Stuart Townsend plays the lead vamp pretty well and is actually fun to watch. Aaliyah, for the few scenes she's in, sizzles as the Queen of the undead. It would have been pretty good if she'd have been able to show what she can do all the way through the film.It's probably not a film you're going to want to see again and again, but if you're not totally bored with vampires after binge-watching box sets of 'True Blood' then take a look at vampires rocking out on stage and fighting each other in the chorus.

A discussion recently about the 1994 Neil Jordan film, based on the Anne Rice novel, "Interview With The Vampire", led me to this 2002 film I just finished up off HBO GO. Stuart Townsend, by far inferior to Tom Cruise's Lestat in "Interview" stars, with the vampire awakening out of years of seclusion, and decides to come out of the closet and become a rock star! I thought about this- and for today's audiences, with David Blaine and everybody, I honestly don't think they'd really notice all the vampire stuff- I think they would just think it's just one big special effect- Oh, yeah, HE's a vampire- surrrrre. LOL The late Aaliyah is really hot as the queen of the vampires, who decides she wants Lestat all to herself (I feel bad about thinking of the dead like this- but kept hoping she would take her clothes off at some point- ?? :( ), and that actress I recently saw on "Wet Hot American Summer" (also on the US version of "Shameless"), Margeurite Moreau- absolutely BEAUUUU-tiful!!All in all, I'm a bit on the fence on this movie. I think if you go into this expecting the great film Neil Jordan made in '94 with Cruise and Brad Pitt, etc.. you'll be sorely disappointed, but if you go into this just on it's own merit, it's not too bad. That being said, at times I was thinking that the acting was kinda lousy- or at least, a tad over the top-?? Lena Olin (also pretty hot for an old lady) also stars.

Cheesy. Like a hot pizza. I love pizza. This was the high tide mark for the goth scene. A lot of leather pants and clunky boots. Are vampires supposed to come off as lame-asses? No, I do enjoy this movie but not because it was done well. Queen Of The Damned was done badly, very badly, but that's why I like it. It is more entertaining than Interview With A Vampire, which is a noteworthy achievement, I mean I guess. Its just so goth, but such a wormy high glam version of goth, it boggles the mind. The soundtrack is hideous, terrible terrible music, all of the songs sound the same but are done by different bands. Believe it or not this was based on a book.