History Film / QueenOfTheDamned

* MoralDissonance: Lestat sees nothing wrong with all the girls he kills for their blood.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The original songs might have been written by [[Music/{{Korn}} Johnathan Davis]] but they incorporate GlamRock, GothRock, {{Industrial}} and IndustrialMetal influences alongside the NuMetal component of the sound. The result is pretty enjoyable, possibly even for those that dislike NuMetal generally.

* AxCrazy: Akasha is a very bloodthirsty vampire who loves to slaughter both humans and vampires just to satisfy her bloodlust.

* VampireVannabe: Jesse is obsessed with vampires, ignoring her occult organization's pleas to simply observe them. She pursues Lestat to the point of being a borderline StalkerWithACrush. This is later explained when it's revealed that her distant ancestors were actually vampires and cared for her since her birth.

''Queen of the Damned'' is a 2002 dark fantasy film directed by Michael Rymer. Based on the third installment of Creator/AnneRice's ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'', it is a sequel of sorts to the 1994 film ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire''. Unlike its predecessor, though, this film plays ''very'' fast and loose with the events of the original novel.

''Queen of the Damned'' is a 2002 fantasy-horror film directed by Michael Rymer. Based on the third installment of Creator/AnneRice's ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'', it is a sequel of sorts to the 1994 film ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire''. Unlike its predecessor, though, this film plays ''very'' fast and loose with the events of the original novel.

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The story begins when the Vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens after decades of slumber, and decides to launch a career as the frontman of a NuMetal band. He soon achieves international stardom, but also earns the wrath of his vampire brethren, who despise him for flaunting his vampiric status, and fear the exposure of their secret world. Yet Lestat's music also awakens a far more potent threat -- the ancient Egyptian vampire queen [[MonsterProgenitor Akasha]] (Music/{{Aaliyah}}, in her second and final film appearance, as well as her only posthumous film appearance), who promptly embarks on a murderous rampage, mowing down humans and vampires alike in her ascent to power. She chooses Lestat as her new consort, and forces him to become an accomplice in her brutal massacre of humankind. It is down to a handful of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly-ish neighbourhood vampires]] -- including Lestat's maker, Marius (Creator/VincentPerez) -- and student of the paranormal, Jessica "Jesse" Reeves (Marguerite Moreau) to rescue Lestat -- and, you know, [[SavingTheWorld save the world]].

The story begins when the Vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens after decades of slumber, and decides to launch a career as the frontman of a NuMetal band. He soon achieves international stardom, but also earns the wrath of his vampire brethren, who despise him for flaunting his vampiric status, and fear the exposure of their secret world. Yet Lestat's music also awakens a far more potent threat -- the ancient Egyptian vampire queen [[MonsterProgenitor Akasha]] (Music/{{Aaliyah}}, in her second and final film appearance, as well as her only posthumous film appearance), who promptly embarks on a murderous rampage, mowing down humans and vampires alike in her ascent to power. She chooses Lestat as her new consort, and forces him to become an accomplice in her brutal massacre of humankind. It is down to a handful of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly-ish neighbourhood vampires]] -- including Lestat's maker, Marius (Vincent Perez) -- and student of the paranormal, Jessica "Jesse" Reeves (Marguerite Moreau) to rescue Lestat -- and, you know, [[SavingTheWorld save the world]].

* IHateYouVampireDad: Lestat is highly resentful after his creator Marius spontaneously abandoned him to keep Lestat away from Akasha. After Marius revisits him when Lestat becomes a rock star in the present, Lestat calls Marius out on not speaking to him for centuries and says that it's far too late for him to take a paternal interest. In the books, Lestat's maker was a French vampire named Magnus; he met Marius a few decades later).

* DaywalkingVampire: Akasha, if she feeds on enough people, can walk around in the sunlight as much as she wants without being harmed, allowing her to live in the open as a true Queen. By letting Lestat drink her blood she passes this ability on to him.

* IHateYouVampireDad: Lestat is highly resentful after his creator Marius spontaneously abandoned him to keep Lestat away from Akasha. After Marius revisits him when Lestat becomes a rock star in the present, Lestat calls Marius out on not speaking to him for centuries and says that it's far too late for him to take a paternal interest.

* MonsterLord: The Ancients are an informal vampire aristocracy, although they don't advertise themselves to the rest of their kind. Akasha even considers herself the [[VampireMonarch Queen of the entire species]].

* PromotedToLoveInterest: The film version made the main subplot a romance between Lestat and Jesse, the two main characters who, in the book, do not speak. One of the many things altered from the book is the identity of Jesse's maker. In the book, it's her "Aunt" Maharet (a distant ancestor-turned-vampire). In the movie, it's Lestat. This was obviously meant to reinforce the bond between the characters, which was never there in the book.

* SavingTheWorld: Marius (Vincent Perez) and student of the paranormal, Jessica "Jesse" Reeves (Marguerite Moreau) are trying to stop [[MonsterProgenitor Akasha]] from mowing down humans and vampires alike in her ascent to power.

* VampiresAreSexGods: Lestat and Akasha are shown to be sensual lovers. This is also exploited by the vampires, as Lestat uses his "sex god" rock persona to lure in victims as dimwitted groupies literally throw themselves at him, only to be bled dry by Lestat.

The story begins when the Vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens after decades of slumber, and decides to launch a career as the frontman of a NuMetal band. He soon achieves international stardom, but also earns the wrath of his vampire brethren, who despise him for flaunting his vampiric status, and fear the exposure of their secret world. Yet Lestat's music also awakens a far more potent threat -- the ancient Egyptian vampire queen [[MonsterProgenitor Akasha]] (Music/{{Aaliyah}}), who promptly embarks on a murderous rampage, mowing down humans and vampires alike in her ascent to power. She chooses Lestat as her new consort, and forces him to become an accomplice in her brutal massacre of humankind. It is down to a handful of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly-ish neighbourhood vampires]] -- including Lestat's maker, Marius (Vincent Perez) -- and student of the paranormal, Jessica "Jesse" Reeves (Marguerite Moreau) to rescue Lestat -- and, you know, [[SavingTheWorld save the world]].

The story begins when the Vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens after decades of slumber, and decides to launch a career as the frontman of a NuMetal band. He soon achieves international stardom, but also earns the wrath of his vampire brethren, who despise him for flaunting his vampiric status, and fear the exposure of their secret world. Yet Lestat's music also awakens a far more potent threat –- the ancient Egyptian vampire queen [[MonsterProgenitor Akasha]] (Music/{{Aaliyah}}), who promptly embarks on a murderous rampage, mowing down humans and vampires alike in her ascent to power. She chooses Lestat as her new consort, and forces him to become an accomplice in her brutal massacre of humankind. It is down to a handful of [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly-ish neighbourhood vampires]] -- including Lestat's maker, Marius (Vincent Perez) -- and student of the paranormal, Jessica "Jesse" Reeves (Marguerite Moreau) to rescue Lestat -- and, you know, [[SavingTheWorld save the world]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Akasha kills off numerous lesser vampires in various bloodthirsty ways. Since they're all portrayed as bloodsucking monsters, no tears will be shed, it's just to establish Akasha as EvilerThanThou.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Akasha kills off numerous vampires in various bloodthirsty ways. Since they're all portrayed as bloodsucking monsters, no tears will be shed, it's just to establish Akasha as EvilerThanThou.

* InMemoriam: The movie was dedicated to the memory of Music/{{Aaliyah}}.

* BrokenMasquerade: The other vampires are pissed off at Lestat for exposing their kind to the world by becoming a rock star.

* AdaptedOut: This film is much more liberal with the axe than its predecessor. Louis and Nicolas are both entirely absent, despite being Lestat's love interests and, especially in Nicolas' case, integral to the plot. (It was his violin Lestat played to wake Akasha.) Daniel is also dropped, leaving Armand DemotedToExtra as his plotline revolved mostly around Daniel. Mekare is also missing, apparently having become a CompositeCharacter with her sister Maharet, and Khayman is nowhere to be seen, as much of the backstory was dropped to focus on the modern plot. The Talamasca agent Aaron Lightner has also been removed from the film, with his role as Jessie's mentor being taken over by the CompositeCharacter David Talbot.