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Queen of the Damned movie storyline. Lestat (Stuart Townsend) has slumbered for two ceturies, but the world above his tomb has changed from the colonial pretension of the 18th century to a more free and colourful world of new more revealing fashions, louder music, caring for the world’s future and the hungry machine that is the media. He rises from his resting place and feeds upon a victim, feeling more revitalized that ever before.
He then proceeds to go and find where the music he hears is coming from, delighted to discover that it is from his old house, and soon shows the young mortal band his talents and makes them famous, calling the rock band The Vampire Lestat. He is controversial, over the top and utterly sesuous, portraying all the sins of the world in his lyrics and his over all demour. But unaware to him a young member of secret vampire expert society, is in fact obsessed with him and reads the thoughts that he put in his diary that her boss, David (Paul McGann), found.
She learns of his maker the talented painter Marius (Vincent Perez), who kidnapped him from his homeland and made him immortal to have an outside link to the everchanging world. Lestat proves to be more trouble than he’s worth, wanting to be seen and heard by mortal, and not be in the shadows waiting to feed upon them. He learns to play the violin like an angel, but kills a Gypsy girl and her father after revealing his supernatural attributes while hunting with Marius.
He then discovers the secret room that Queen Akasha [(link=nm0004691]) and her King slumber. He plays the violin for her, and falls into her trap of drinking her blood. But he is chained to the bed by Marius and discovers that Akasha and her King are the makers of all vampires, brutal and bloodthirsty, they had drank the ancient world dry and finally lost their will to drink. Later Lestat awakens alone, to find Marius is gone and so are Akasha and her mate, showing Lestat that after all is said and done, we are all alone.
Even more intrigued by this nocturnal hearthrob, Jesse (Marguerite Moreau) sets out to a vampire club in the old section of London, only to be nearly devoured by a pack of yuppy vampires and be rescued by Lestat. She tells him of her reading his diary and asks him about his violin, telling him he can’t have forgotten about it. He returns home and once again plays the treasured instrument. The next day he has a press conference with his band and stirs up trouble with both humans and vampires, saying that the immortals must come and find him at his one and only concert in the valley.
Queen of the Damned is a 2002 Australian-American horror film, and a loose adaptation of the third novel of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned, although the film contains many plot elements from the latter novel’s predecessor, The Vampire Lestat. It stars Aaliyah as the vampire queen Akasha, and Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat. Queen of the Damned was released six months after Aaliyah’s death and is dedicated to her memory.
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Directed by: Michael Rymer
Starring: Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Paul McGann, Vincent Pérez, Claudia Black, Lena Olin, Christian Manon, Claudia Black, Bruce Spence, Matthew Newton
Screenplay by: Scott Abbott, Michael Petroni
Production Design by: Graham ‘Grace’ Walker
Cinematography by: Ian Baker
Film Editing by: Dany Cooper
Costume Design by: Angus Strathie
Set Decoration by: Brian Dusting
Art Direction by: Tom Nursey
Music by: Jonathan Davis, Richard Gibbs
MPAA Rating: R for vampire violence.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: February 22, 2002
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