Queen of the Damned (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 18, 2012
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
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...[Aaliyah is] genuinely appealing as the Vamp queen....The action receives an excitement injection every time she appears...
Total Film
May 1, 2002
Rating: 2/4 -- 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. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Jul 20, 2002
Rating: 1/5 -- Sums up all that's wrong with contemporary cinema: unsubtle to the point of obviousness, it reeks of MTV and relies on volume to get its point across. Full Review
BBC.com
Apr 15, 2002
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. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Oct 20, 2009
It isn't great entertainment or camp, but pic sets its ambitions so low, it can't help partially delivering on them. Full Review
Variety
Sep 15, 2008
Rating: 1/5 -- Whatever life there is to the movie is what [Aaliyah] brings to it. Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Sep 22, 2007
Aaliyah is gorgeous, but that doesn't save the film's tedious pacing, and cheesy atmosphere in the end. Full Review
Cinema Crazed
Apr 29, 2009

Product Description:

A deep, dark, stylistic adaptation of the book by Anne Rice from her hugely popular series of vampire novels, THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED is like a Nine Inch Nails rock video. Undernourished goth club kids are the focus of the film and they all look great with piercings, net t-shirts, tattoos, dyed hair, and dour facial expressions. The film follows the celebrity rock star Vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend), who has emerged from 200 years of solitude to show his face--and his vampire powers--to the world. He has assembled a goth band, makes regular media appearances, and has enchanted the world with his otherworldly mystique. In addition, he has planned one of the most controversial publicity stunts of all eternity: he is holding a one-night rock concert in California's Death Valley, inviting all vampires young and old (along with his extensive fan-base of mortals) to join him. As a side bar to this activity, the mortal Jesse, a young woman who works for the Talamasca society studying paranormal occurrences, has found a secret portal to the vampire world: a London pub where vamps hang out. There she meets Lestat and is instantly smitten with him, insisting on travelling to Death Valley to see his concert. Also en route to the show is the sleek and sexy Egyptian mother of all vampires Queen Akasha (Aaliyah), who has recently arisen from a 2,000-year nap in order to unleash hell on earth. From a distance, a wise band of vampires watch telepathically as Akasha, Lestat, and Jesse converge in Death Valley. But what nobody knows is that the headstrong Lestat, who is the most impulsive and irresponsible of immortal beings but practically a god in the eyes of mortals, is the only one who can defeat Akasha and save the world.

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