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NUMBERS
Box Office: $30,257,994
VHS Rentals: $6,000,000
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CONSENSUS
A muddled and campy MTV-styled vampire movie with lots of eye candy and bad accents.
CAST & CREW
Stuart Townsend, Aaliyah, Marguerite Moreau
Directed by Michael Rymer
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SYNOPSIS
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. more...
MPAA RATING
R, vampire violence
RUNTIME
1 hour, 41 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Feb 22, 2002
Video: Aug 27, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Vampires, Egypt, Fantasy Worlds
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Queen of the Damned Site
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 "The film is a travesty of the genre and even as spoof takes itself too seriously."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "... works on some levels and is certainly worth seeing at least once."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
"Screenwriters Scott Abbott and Michael Petroni have turned Rice's complex Akasha into a cartoon monster."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
"Here's yet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep. But taken as a stylish and energetic one-shot, The Queen of the Damned cannot be said to suck."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
"An ill-conceived jumble that’s not scary, not smart and not engaging."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"[T]he script isn't up to the level of the direction, nor are the uneven performances by the cast members, who seem bound and determined to duplicate Bela Lugosi's now-cliched vampire accent."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"It's not just the vampires that are damned in Queen of the Damned -- the viewers will feel they suffer the same fate."
-- Anika Van Wyk, JAM! MOVIES
"A hideous, confusing spectacle, one that may well put the nail in the coffin of any future Rice adaptations."
-- Catharine Tunnacliffe, EYE WEEKLY
"Queen of the Damned is too long with too little going on."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Queen of the Damned as you might have guessed, makes sorry use of Aaliyah in her one and only starring role -- she does little here but point at things that explode into flame."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"[T]here's only so much anyone can do with a florid, overplotted, Anne Rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Watching Queen of the Damned is like reading a research paper, with special effects tossed in."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Aaliyah rarely dampens her diva persona enough to spark genuine chemistry with Townsend. When she speaks, her creepy Egyptian demigod voice is as computer processed and overproduced as it was in her music."
-- Charles Savage, MIAMI HERALD
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"The only entertainment you’ll derive from this choppy and sloppy affair will be from unintentional giggles – several of them."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Muddled, trashy and incompetent"
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"Wanker Goths are on the loose! Run for your lives!"
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"... manages to deliver a fair bit of vampire fun."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILMCRITIC.COM
"While the story is better-focused than the incomprehensible Anne Rice novel it's based upon, Queen Of The Damned is a pointless, meandering celebration of the goth-vampire, tortured woe-is-me lifestyle."
-- Derek Tse, JAM! MOVIES
"[A] soulless, stupid sequel ..."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Totally brainless, a laboriously florid attempt to fashion the sort of
instant camp that arises only by accident."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"... just a big mess of a movie, full of images and events, but no tension or surprise."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Whole stretches of the film may be incomprehensible to moviegoers not already clad in basic black."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"In a 102-minute film, Aaliyah gets at most 20 minutes of screen time. ... most viewers will wish there had been more of the "Queen" and less of the "Damned.""
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
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ROTTEN 11%
Avg. Rating: 3.9/10 |
"A muddled limp biscuit of a movie, a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"There's a bit of thematic meat on the bones of Queen of the Damned, as its origins in an Anne Rice novel dictate, but generally, it's a movie that emphasizes style over character and substance."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Rymer doesn't trust laughs -- and doesn't conjure proper respect for followers of the whole dead-undead genre, who deserve more from a vampire pic than a few shrieky special effects."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"... too gory to be a comedy and too silly to be an effective horror film."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"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."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"The performances are so leaden, Michael Rymer's direction is so bloodless and the dialogue is so corny that the audience laughs out loud."
-- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"[A] boldly stroked, luridly coloured, uni-dimensional nonsense machine that strokes the eyeballs while it evaporates like so much crypt mist in the brain."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"If legendary shlockmeister Ed Wood had ever made a movie about a vampire, it probably would look a lot like this alarming production, adapted from Anne Rice's novel The Vampire Chronicles."
-- Bruce Newman, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
"... a visually seductive, unrepentantly trashy take on Rice's second installment of her Vampire Chronicles."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"... the movie is just a plain old monster."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
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"It looks good, but it is essentially empty."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
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