A vampire Lestat has been asleep in his crypt for many years. The lonely life of a vampire has bothered him and he now wishes for a sort of death. After over a century of sleep he is awoken by the sound of rock music (ugh what a rubbish story so far). He casually walks in amongst a band who are playing together, he's dressed in leather trousers and an open leather jacket and the guy obviously thinks a lot of himself as rather than act he just poses a lot. He joins this band and they become really, really big. Bigger than Elvis apparently (I wonder if Elvis was a vampire).

Lestat's band is to play a big one-off concert in Death Valley and has dared all vampires to come out. Other vampires are peeved as Lestat is breaking the code of secrecy. Jesse keeps hunting down Lestat and other vampires for information and the Queen of the Damned the mother of all vampires rises to meet Lestat. You get the idea. How many times did I type Lestat? 9. The answer is 9 times

Other than this respite in the past I did not like the story. Lestat becoming this big rock god didn't interest me. The fact that this annoyed all the other vampires didn't really compute. What was their problem? Lestat complains that being a vampire is a lonely life yet in the film there's a vampire coven where all the vampires hangout and some even seem to have vampire partners. Jesse was just generally a bit stupid and Marguerite Moreau who played her is not an actress worth paying attention to. (Two people called Marguerite in the space of two reviews) The ending was just a bit too much romantic lovey-dovey completely flying in the face of evil vampireness for me to bear. You have never seen such poofy vampires as appear in this film. Now I know that Dracula is pretty much where everyone draws inspiration from when creating vampire stories and he was a romantic character blah blah blah but I wish they'd make a really hard-core could-not-give-a-sh*t vampire some day. Have a vampire bite Dirty Harry or someone. More and more vampire films are becoming girly films and it needs manned up a bit. Like Blade sort of does, but not like Blade.

It wasn't a badly directed film for what it was intended to be. The special effects were pretty awful. The flying vampire scenes and the swishing about they done looked so fake because it left his ghost blur. That dubbed little vampire film had equivalent effects. For all the Lestat's singing they had him miming and Jonathon Davis of Korn was doing the actual vocals and they did not blend well at all. Jonathon Davis is quite a big person whilst Stuart Townsend is a small, thin man and being familiar with Korn and Jonathon Davis it just didn't seem right. They weren't great songs he sang either. I have to admit that the majority of the artists who appear on the soundtrack of this film I have a CD of, not a kind of music I've listened to in ages. I'm not a big fan of bands like Korn, Disturbed and the Deftones etc. but again taking into account the target audience I'd say it worked well. House of Flies by Deftones is played and I do quite like that song. Jonathon Davis does also make a short appearance in the film as a guy selling tickets outside the concert.