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Release Date: 27 August, 2002 Retail Price: $14.96 OUR Price: $6.97 You SAVE: $7.99! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Queen of the Damned (Widescreen Edition) Reviews
Cheesy movie
If you loved Interview with a Vampire you will Hate this movie. The whole movie just seemed like a really long metal video. I haven't read any of Ms. Rice's novels but this movie seemed to leave too many question marks. The whole slow motion scene of Alliyah walking into the bar should've been edited so more of the story could've been explained. Not a good movie and painful to watch.
No moral compass
This fairly well-made vampire movie has great music (if you like heavy metal) and a mesmerizing supporting part from Ailayah in the titled role; what a very memorable entrance about 50 mins into the movie!
But Queen of the Damned fails miserably in its core story. We discover that vampires (at least some of them) have a heart, and care for the humanity that they have lost. And apparently the viewer is supposed to feel warm and chummy with the lead couple at the end of the movie. But along the way, huge numbers of (mostly) female victims die in the clutches of these same vampires (well, by the male half of the couple). The awfulness of movie comes through in a scene where the lead vampire is disgusted by a beach-full of human victims he and the Queen produced the night before; the statement of the movie is that the continuing deaths of groupies, prostitutes, and other vulnerable humans is forgivable, as long as the complete destruction of humanity doesn't result from the vampires' presence. We are supposed to, in fact, feel pleased with this outcome. A sound moral compass is not a requirement for a horror movie of this type. Even so, an unpleasantly unclean feeling that eventually resolves into disgust is the proper reaction.
Not recommended.
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