It seems that Akasha has taken a shine to Lestat, and wants to establish him as the new king of the world, while the pair of them suck the life out of mortals at will. She moves in a slow-motion snaky slither and speaks in an electronically altered growl. The impetuous Lestat decides to suck the hand of a statue he finds in Marius's basement, which causes the re-emergence of the super-vampire and Egyptian goddess, Akasha (the pop star Aaliyah).Īaliyah, who, sadly, died last year at age 22 in a plane crash after the movie was shot, is a sylph-like presence with fabulous cheekbones and lissome tummy (revealed in her Cleopatra outfits). Lestat wants to see the vampire who created him, Marius (beautiful French actor Vincent Perez), with whom he seems to have a homoerotic sadomasochistic thing going on: chains, neck-nuzzling hugs and meaningful stares. But Jessie, who has a little vampire in her own family tree (her aunt, played by Lena Olin, is one of the undead) is a researcher determined to get extremely close to her subject.Ĭomplications abound. Withnail and I), warns her against crossing the line. Her boss and potential lovemate, Paul McGann (the I of Meanwhile, at the London institute for the study of the paranormal, a pretty, preppy American girl, Jessie (Marguerite Moreau), has determined that a local hot Goth-rock club is - who'd have guessed? - actually a hangout for vampires.
Then he can become un-undead and relax for a change.
His plan, apparently, is to flush out all the other undead, who, of necessity, must kill him.
Despite the usual prescriptions against photographing vampires, Lestat appears in big-screen video, and admits to sending subliminal vampire secrets in his lyrics. Interview with the Vampire), and the two women I sat with declared him "tasty." As for the music he played, written by Richard Gibb and Jonathan Davis (lead singer of Korn), it sounds like clunky drone rock with growling, indecipherable lyrics.īela Lugosi's Dead, the rock band has jumped to worldwide acclaim and appears in London to talk to the press. The actor is Stuart Townsend (the part was played by Tom Cruise in Our hero vampire is played by a young man with a well-defined body covered in pale body makeup (even his nipples are white) and a fangy sneer. The vampire's eternity seems a lot like an afternoon watching MTV.
Directed by Michael Rymer, the movie spares no expense: rapid editing, electronically altered voices, numerous computer-generated locations from London to Death Valley, flying bodies, splattering blood, pouty lips and half-naked bodies. Queen of the Damned is the most definitively MTV version of the vampire myth so far.
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