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After years of slumber, the legendary vampire has awakened and found acceptance in a tattooed, pierced and black-clad world. He's a rock star. And his awesome punk-chic sound has echoed around the globe...and stirred to life the fearsome Mother of All Vampires. Based on "The Vampire Chronicles" by Anne Rice, whose work previously came to the screen in "Interview with the Vampire."SimilarProduct
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Queen of the Movies!!!!!!! 
by .. ()
...I loved this movie...(to be honest: I really liked Stuart Townsend as Lestat, way better than Tom Cruise version of the indestructible vampire) ...soundtrack is really good too!!!
I love this movie by .. Saerah Mian (milwaukee,WI USA)
Hey I am no film critic, in fact I am a 40 yr old single mom, but I loved this movie it played like a dream that drew me in into a mysterious, dark, sexy world in which the music is the main character because it is ever present and it sort of flows from scene to scene like one big song. It is fluid, liquid.... magic. (If vampires existed this day and age it would suit them just fine because they wouldn't have to hide because the world has changed enough). and in the end the lesser evil vanquishes evil because in the new world it is no longer good vrs evil. I totaly enjoyed it if you want to see it I recomend you do so with an open mind.
I loved it but it's just an adaptation by .. Jason C. Nelson (los angeles,ca)
As I've said in other reviews it's just a movie people. So this isn't the best adaptation of the vampire chronicles it's still a very entertaining movie. Stuart Townsend is more Lestat than Tom Cruise was because Lestat is not in his thirties in the books he is late teens early twenties so Townsend fits. But it's just an adaptation. The books were very detailed and very well thought out Anne Rice is the most amazing author alive today but we only have less than two hours to make a movie. If they made The vampire chronicle the way they were written we'd have to make a lord of the rings type movie at best, Harry Potter, well I'll leave that alone. Aaliyah is amazing but the charater of Akasha does not look like that, I'm sorry but she doesn't. Making Marius Lestat sire was a good choice mainly because Magnus the creator from the vampire lestat was not in the story long enough to have a real effect. Where is my Gabrielle. My favorite character is Lestat's mother. She should have been in this one. Going back to my original point. It's an adaptation, there is nothing saying that we can't have another movie called the queen of the damned or the vampire lestat. I hope to claudia that they next time they do this Anne Rice is more involved. Later.
Great Movie!!! by .. Holly (US)
"Queen of the Damned"
I believe that this Film goes deep into the meanings and stories in "The Vampire Chronicles". It is my opinion that the subject of this fill was mostly on Lestat played by the talented and sexy Australian actor Stuart Townsend the main character even though the Media portrayed that the main character was in fact Akasha the queen of the damned herself portrayed by Aaliyah. It tells the story of the Lonely and brooding vampire Lestat after he has gone to sleep as vampires do, trying to drown out the sound of the growing world around him when something wakes him... music. He becomes a Rock star with his mortal band and "lives in the light" in a sense. But he still finds this life or un-life boring unfulfilling he wants someone to share eternity with a companion (Louis original position).
The theme of the movie is simple the fight to stay interested in life or what is left of it on the earth so one is not to drive themselves insane with immortality. All the vampires in this adaptation are trying to fight and find a way to deal with eternity.
Actors and Actresses in the Roles they play are very well chosen. The movie being a low-budget fill compared to films in the U.S. today the maker's or Queen of the Damned actually spent about half the normal movie budget. Most of the actors were in fact from Australia and movies are made for smaller amounts of money there. The acting was wonderful all characters fit their roles perfectly the accents for the origins were better then in Interview with the vampire. Exception for the accent of Akasha who sounded very Hungarian or Slavic, but as is the world has yet to discover what Ancient Egyptians sounded like.
The Dialogue from the fill followed the books actually story line. This time around Anne Rice did not write the script as it was in Interview with a vampire. There were some minor changes make but they were insignificant to the movie it self. The Changes were mostly made because like all good books that are made into movies some corners have to be cut and since this movie was a combination of two books "The Vampire Lestat" & "The Queen of the Damned". There were a lot of details simple left out to simplify the story.
The setting for the movie was the modern day gothic scene. The locations for the movie were all around a Desert, Death Valley, Hollywood, and England. The scenes also surprisingly go along with the story and since Vampires can Travel very quickly there were no long and drawn out travel scenes.
The Lighting as in all Vampire movies was dark and reflected the mood of the entire movie... Dark. The movie was meant to be this way I don't think it is meant to scare but let the imagination run wild with the possibilities of things going bump in the night and maybe that shadow did move while you were walking to your care in a very "dark" parking lot.
I found the sound to set the moods of the movie when the big concert scene was coming up the sound gradually became louder. But to get the full affect of this movie you defiantly have to see it in surround sound.
The music for this movie was gothic and Rock bands such as
Static-x, Disturbed, Linken Park, Marilyn Manson, Orgy, Papa Roach, Deftones, Disturbed, Earshot, Godhead, Kidneythieves, Tricky, and Dry Cell came out for the Queen of the Damned Soundtrack. In the movie the voice of Lestat the Rock star was sang by Jonathan Davis who also makes a cameo appearance as a ticket scalper in the movie for The Vampire Lestat Concert. The music very much fit the movie and the disturbing lyrics sound like the undead actually wrote them.
I found that the Cinematography in the movie could have used some work I thought that some of the camera angles should have showed one character so you know what's going on with them while the other characters are the main part of the action at the time. I also found that it seemed to get better thought out the movie so maybe the camera guy took some classes or something.
Special effects although they were far and few between brought to the movie never distracting the audience but bringing them more into the film and believing that this could possible happen in the modern world that there is a stranger sitting behind you that could jump out and any second and it frankly frightens you and gives the culture a chance to look into the shadows.
Editing now this is something I did not approve of I thought that the movie should have at least introduces that Vampires Armand, Mael, Maharet, Pandora, and Khayman. Two of these Vampires are destroyed in the movie and there parts could have been much greater. But all that got to the cutting room floor before it made it to the can.
The over all Directing was wonderful the actors never seemed to be lost in the thought that they didn't know what to do next. They seemed to remain in character at all times never breaking their very distinct accents.
Over all I would give this movie an A not an A+ because the lack of other character involvement. I thought The Queen of the Damned lets the normal everyday person rethink there life and what it would be like not to have it. The best way I can some this up is that you have to see this movie it is by far the Best vampire movie I have ever seen and even if you don't enjoy vampire movies, It has something for the everyday person Romance, Small Comedy, Action, and Drama.
I saw Queen of the Damed by .. ()
I saw Queen of the Damned yesterday at a special screening of it. overall the movie was really good, good story, and good actors. the thing that impressed me the most was the fact that jonathan davis did ALL the music in that movie (the lead singer of KoRn), and that made the movie great. good job at creating a movie from a book. but the book nerds wont like this one as much. you don't even have to see interview with the vampire to get this movie, or even read the books. good movie overall.