The Damned

Starring:Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Albrecht Schoenhals, Florinda Bolkan, Nora Ricci, Charlotte Rampling, Irina Wanka, Karin Mittendorf, Valentina Ricci, Wolfgang Hillinger, Bill Vanders, Howard Nelson Rubien, Werner Hasselmann, Peter Dane, Mark Salvage
Director: Luchino Visconti
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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It's her time. Her place. The wickedly regal Mother of All Vampires is ready again to rule! Aaliyah plays the title role in this stylish shocker based on Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. Stuart Townsend portrays Lestat, the undead antihero previously seen in the movie version of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. This time, Lestat finds acceptance in a tattooed and pierced world. He's a rock star. And his intoxicating Goth-riffed sound rekindles the desires of all-powerful Akasha.

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Love this movie!!.......2007-04-11

I am both an Anne Rice fan and a fan of vampire/sci-fi stories. I first saw this movie without having read the books. I agree that the stories are very different, but taken separately, QotD is a fantastic movie!! The music simply rocks and the cast worked so well, especially Stuart Townsend. Definitely one of the best vamp movies I've seen! Would definitely recommend this!!

Dissapointing.......2007-04-10

In "The Vampire Chronicles" by Anne Rice, "Queen of the Damned" is the sequel to "The Vampire Lestat." In the movies, it's the sequel to "Interview with the Vampire." The problem is, "Interview with the Vampire" is a masterpiece and "Queen of the Damned" is not. It doesn't even work as a sequel, but more of a stand-alone film that went wrong in many places. Replacing Tom Cruise as Lestat is Stuart Townsend, an underrated actor who has both the looks and charisma to play Lestat, but went wrong with his accent. Townsend threw on some fake-sounding Transylvanian accent and it really sounds fake. The long, dramatic pauses between statements doesn't help either. While the film basically picks up right after "Interview," if that film had ended ten minutes before it did. In case you don't recall, Lestat came back from his place of rest at the end of that film...In this film, he's in the cemetery in a sort of coma that he is awakened from by a budding rock group. He joins the band, renaming them The Vampire Lestat, and begins telling the world that vampires do exist...Something a vampire is never supposed to do. As Lestat grows in popularity and the underworld of vampires get angrier, he awakens from the grave Akasha (Aaliyah), the Queen of all vampires. Throw in some concert sequences (with Jonathan Davis of Korn doing the music) and flashy, music video like direction...You have "Queen of the Damned." Take a look at "Interview" for a moment. None of the actors used accents and all were perfect for their roles. I'm not the biggest Tom Cruise fan, but he captured Lestat so well I don't think many others could do it. Townsend, I believe, could...But he screwed up. Also, "Interview" was soaked in a gothic, moody atmosphere. "Queen of the Damned" has the atmosphere of a straight-to-DVD movie. The fact that it's directed as if it's a music video doesn't help either and caused it to age almost as soon as it was released. "Interview" was a film that was trying to appeal to adults and critics; it worked, it's a great film. "Queen of the Damned" was trying to appeal to young kids who like horror movies and rock music, the MTV generation if you will. It's no wonder the film was #1 at the box office when it was first released and is rarely ever mentioned anymore. It's sad to see real talent like Townsend, Lena Olin, and Aaliyah put on these fake accents and make themselves look like fools. Aaliyah did it and came out with the most dignity though; even those she just kind of belly dances her way through the film. I haven't read the book, but I'm pretty damn sure that not only does this film not work as a movie but it probably doesn't work as a literary adaptation either.

GRADE: C

Wretched!.......2007-01-29

Like many of the reviewers here, I am an Anne Rice fan. However, I knew that there were going to be liberties taken and was comfortable with them. I mean, few of the "Dracula" movies throughout the years have had anything to do with Bram Stoker's novel. All I wanted - and expected - was a flashy, no substance guilty pleasure movie, a la "Dracula 2000." That alone should tell you my expectations.

But QotD failed even as a guilty pleasure. The storyline didn't make a lot of sense when taken on it's own, and the acting was bad to bland. I also take issue with the badly-done look of the vampires. Rice's vampires are supposed to be beautiful, whereas this bunch looked like Eurotrash or people at a Halloween spook house.

However, one good thing about this movie is the music videos for Lestat. SInce the videos are included on the DVD, it earns 1 star.

The vampire Lestat & the ancient Queen Akasha .......2007-01-11

After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens only to find that the world has changed and he wants to be a part of it. He gathers a following and becomes a rock star only to find that his music awakens the ancient Queen Akasha and she wants him to become her king. Worth at least a rental!

Cool movie.......2007-01-10

This movie is one of my favorites. Although at one point it's a little corny, it's overall an awesome movie. It's definitely a plus that Jonathan Davis of Korn does the music. The music is definitely beyond great. I would recommend buying this dvd.

The Joan Crawford Collection (Humoresque / Possessed (1947) / The Damned Don't Cry / The Women / Mildred Pierce)

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Fabulous as always
Gothic Diversion
FInally Joan gets the treatment she deserves!!!
Calling All Crawford Fans! Where's Volume 2 ?
Great Collection But More Please.

The Joan Crawford Collection (Humoresque / Possessed (1947) / The Damned Don't Cry / The Women / Mildred Pierce)
Starring: Joan Crawford , John Garfield , Oscar Levant , J. Carrol Naish , and Joan Chandler
Director: Jean Negulesco , Curtis Bernhardt , and Vincent Sherman
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ASIN: B0008ENID4
Release Date: 2005-06-14

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The Joan Crawford Collection brings together a potent group of films from Crawford's career renaissance: her Warner Bros. run of the late 1940s, beginning with Mildred Pierce. Four of the titles are from that heated, noirish streak, including Crawford's 1945 Oscar-winning turn in Mildred, a great Hollywood example of an actress's persona meeting the zeitgeist moment. In this adaptation of the James M. Cain novel, Crawford plays a sacrificing mother perfectly willing to claw her way to success for the sake of her ingrate daughter. Michael Curtiz directed, snapping Crawford out of a long career slide.

Humoresque (1946) was promptly given the top-drawer treatment, and it's a truly epic melodrama about a restless society woman who takes up the cause of a young violinist (John Garfield) from the slums. Possessed (1947) gave Crawford a thorough workout as a woman in complete obsessive breakdown from various romantic traumas. What Crawford lacks in subtlety she makes up for in sheer will, which suits the character well (and brought another best actress Oscar nomination). The Damned Don't Cry (1950) is a film noir smash-up, with Crawford as a low-rent dame who brazens her way into becoming a fur-lined mobster's moll (it was loosely inspired by the Bugsy Siegel-Virginia Hill story). It's overripe but entertaining.

1939's The Women, an MGM picture, doesn't fit the mood of the collection, although it has its fans. George Cukor directed this catty version of the Clare Booth Luce play, which has an all-female ensemble cast; Crawford is in very good form as a bad girl. The movie's reputation is somewhat beyond its actual witchy charm. (Packaging gaffe: the photo on the back cover is from Seven Women.) DVD extras tend toward smallish documentaries, save the absorbing 90-minute career profile The Ultimate Movie Star on the Mildred Pierce disc, an even-handed study that includes frank revelations from director-lover Vincent Sherman and the "wire hangers" story from adopted daughter Christina. Sherman contributes a commentary on The Damned Don't Cry. --Robert Horton

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The Joan Crawford Collection features classics from the star whose career spanned more than 40 years. "I never go out unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door." - Joan Crawford

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Fabulous as always.......2007-01-11

Wonderful collection of some of Joan's movies. Hours of pleasure watching them. Highly recommended.

Gothic Diversion.......2007-01-03

Put this collection on during a stormy day, but keep at least one light on and lock the tranquilizers in the medicine cabinet. Joan's performances are riveting and her face was made for monochrome. Watch "Humoresque" first. The director used the pounding piano and searing violin to propel the film but employed Oscar Levant as the comic foil so the film doesn't collapse under its own weight. In "Possessed", you'll see Joan on the verge of campiness, although she apparently visited insane asylum inmates in order to verify her facial expressions. "The Women" is a fast, furious "Sex and the City"-like farce. Buy this.

FInally Joan gets the treatment she deserves!!!.......2006-12-11

I am SO glad Joan gets her own box set, although I am miffed that Bette has a second one while poor Joan still only has one!
I would Love to see a second box set and even a third. Joan made some fun, campy films, but she always rose above the material.
I'd love to see Johnny Guitar, Flamingo Road, Torch Song and A Woman's Face in a set. And another with Female on the Beach, Autumn Leaves, Susuan and God and When Ladies Meet.
This set has The Women, which is the campiest and most quoted film. The "clever" plot involves a story devoid of men, but it is ALL the women talk about. Norma Sheaer, who deserves her OWN box set, is WONDEFUL in this film. Joan has a supporting role and she chews every inch of scenery she is in! Humoresque is my least favorite role. Joan falls for John Garfield and throws her life away for him. So NOT our Joanie! Possessed is OK. The role was written for Bette Davis and it is interesting to see Joan do the role while imaginging how Bette would OVERPLAY it while Joan does it more subtley. Now, The Damned Don't Cry is PURE CRAWFORD!! Woman claws her way to the top and uses every trick in the book to stay there. This should have been in a box set iwth Torch Song, Female on the Beach and Johnny Guitar. TOUGH "Don't F with me fellas!!!" Crawford! PLEASE release the second box set in early 2007!!!!!

Calling All Crawford Fans! Where's Volume 2 ? .......2006-10-01

While the release of The Joan Crawford Collection was an eagerly anticipated event in mid 2005 along with the Bette Davis Collection issued at the same time, nearly a year and a half has passed.Bette now has volume 2 & all we've seen on the Crawford front from Warners is Dancing Lady in the Gable boxset.Am I the only Crawford fan who has noticed this slight?Am I the only one who wants more?I don't have to tell you all the titles,but for instance how about a boxset with Flamingo Road,A Woman's Face,Susan and God,This Woman is Dangerous& Paid. Throw in some of her silents as extras(Like the Garbo set),follow up with a Gable/Crawford set(at least 7 more films)&let's get the show on the road!

Great Collection But More Please........2006-04-23

I'm hoping that WB will issue additional Joan Crawford movies, including Female On The Beach (with Jeff Chandler), Johnny Guitar, and A Woman's Face (her bone structure is amazing and she looks very beautiful at this point in her career). She's always interesting and fun to watch, just as Bette Davis is.

Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned

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Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned
Starring: George Sanders , Barbara Shelley , Martin Stephens (II) , Michael Gwynn , and Laurence Naismith
Director: Wolf Rilla , and Anton Leader
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ASIN: B00027JYMG
Release Date: 2004-08-10

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What's scarier than scary kids? Village of the Damned is the definitive scary-kid classic, a truly unsettling film drawn from John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos. The brilliant opening sequence depicts the sudden and temporary paralysis of a small English hamlet, which is followed by the town's women becoming mysteriously pregnant. The spawn of this occurrence are a dozen eerie, blond-headed children, who are either gifted, evil, or "the world's new people." A splendid outing, not least in the way it catches parental anxiety about this small new stranger in one's home. (It was remade by John Carpenter in 1995.)

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After years of slumber, the legendary vampire has awakened and found acceptance in a tattooed, pierced and black-clad world. He's a rock star. And his awesome punk-chic sound has echoed around the globe...and stirred to life the fearsome Mother of All Vampires. Based on "The Vampire Chronicles" by Anne Rice, whose work previously came to the screen in "Interview with the Vampire."

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The Damned
Starring: Dirk Bogarde , Ingrid Thulin , Helmut Griem , Helmut Berger , and Renaud Verley
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Release Date: 2004-02-17

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This brooding, operatic movie about Nazism makes Cabaret look like wholesome family fare. The family in The Damned is a symbol of German society circa 1934. The Krupp-like steel magnate Baron von Essenbeck represents the spineless establishment. The Nazis kill the baron, then frame one heir apparent, a socialist (married to the stunning Charlotte Rampling). A bearish, boorish Essenbeck representing the SA, the Nazis' early goon squad, takes the reins. But Hitler murdered the SA in the 1934 "Night of the Long Knives," providing The Damned with its bravura action scene, a Nazi massacre at a gay SA orgy. The winning Essenbeck is the murderous, pedophilic, transvestite, mother-rapist Martin (sharp-featured Helmut Berger), who represents Nazism. Though he's better in director Luchino Visconti's 1971 Death in Venice, Dirk Bogarde is classy as Martin's stepdad. The Damned got an Oscar screenplay nomination, and Vincent Canby called Berger's Martin "the performance of the year." --Tim Appelo

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A decadent German family of great wealth wallows in its own decay as its factories produce armaments for Hitler and his followers.

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Village of the Damned
Starring: Kirstie Alley , Thomas Dekker , Cody Dorkin , Constance Forslund , and Mark Hamill
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ASIN: 0783230427
Release Date: 1998-12-15

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The original 1960 version of Village of the Damned is regarded as a classic of science-fiction and horror, and it remains one of the creepiest movies of its kind. Directed with occasional flair by John Carpenter, this 1995 remake trades subtlety for more explicit chills and violence, but the basic premise remains effectively eerie. In the tiny, idyllic town of Midwich, a strange mist causes the entire population to fall asleep, and when everyone awakes the town physician (Christopher Reeve) discovers that 10 women--including his wife and a local teenaged virgin--have mysteriously become pregnant. Their children are all born on the same day, with matching white hair and strange, glowing eyes, growing at an accelerated rate and raising Reeve's suspicion that they're not of Earthly origin. These demonic brats can control minds and wreak havoc with the power of their thoughts--so of course, they must be destroyed! Only Reeve knows how to get the job done, and his performance (the actor's last big-screen role before his paralyzing accident in 1995) grounds this otherwise superfluous remake with enough credibility to hold the viewer's attention. But for the real chills, definitely check out the original version--it's 20 minutes shorter but twice as spooky. --Jeff Shannon

Guyana: Crime of the Century - Cult of the Damned

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Guyana: Crime of the Century - Cult of the Damned
Starring: Jennifer Ashley , Gene Barry , Erika Carlson , Joseph Cotten , and Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Jr. René Cardona
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Release Date: 2005-02-15

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Nearly 1,000 people - even tiny babies and children - lay dead and rotting in the morning sun in the South American country of Guyana, all victims of cult leader Jim Jones, who had ordered the mass execution of his followers in the 1978 incident called by many "The Crime of the Century". An horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy where the names have been changed to protect the "innocent," "Guyana: Crime of the Century," traces the steps of Rev. Jim Johnson (Jim Jones - portrayed by Stuart Whitman), a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid man of the cloth, who, after years of evangelism and good deeds, starts his own church in the United States. When Johnson becomes increasingly obsessed with the belief that the CIA is "a wicked enemy" who is out to get him, he emigrates with his congregation to Guyana where he plans to create a utopia. But Johnson's "utopia," consists of a society where he demands his followers turn their minds, bodies and possessions over to him, and a lifestyle that is rife with orgies, physical violence, mental torture, and sexual abuse of children and adults. When Congressman Lee O'Brien (portrayed by Gene Barry) makes a special trip to Johnsontownship in Guyana to investigate allegations of Johnson's bizarre activities, Johnson's paranoia reaches a fever pitch that culminates in him taking savage action against the congressman and ultimately, against his own congregation. From the director of "Survive," "Cyclone" and "Treasure of the Amazon". Bonus Features: Scene Selection Menu| Trailers| Bios. Specs: DVD5; Dolby Digital Mono; 115 minutes; Color: 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1979; SRP - $5.99.

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The Damned Don't Cry
Starring: Joan Crawford , David Brian , Steve Cochran , Kent Smith , and Hugh Sanders
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ASIN: B0008ENI84
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Joan Crawford bashes her way through this melodrama inspired by the Bugsy Siegel-Virginia Hill story. Our girl walks out of tacky poverty at the beginning and re-shapes herself into a fur-lined mobster's moll, her will of steel out-pointing the men at every stop. David Brian (recently her Flamingo Road co-star) is the looming blond monster who runs the organization, Steve Cochran is the Bugsy guy building his own network in Nevada, and Kent Smith is the meek accountant Joan bullies into becoming a syndicate player. It's all from that mid-career post-Mildred Pierce period that served Crawford so well, with the full-on film noir look (Ted McCord photographed) and the strong whiff of American sleaze.

Joan Crawford's face had assumed its masklike quality at this point, and at times she seems more of a business manager than an actress: organizing each scene, pushing the story along to its next stop. In its own over-the-top way, it works: there isn't a moment when she doesn't seem capable of devouring anybody that stands in her way. Everything is writ large in this movie, which makes it a fitting target for a Carol Burnett send-up... and which also makes it a great deal of fun. --Robert Horton

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It's a man's world. And Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in it: be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. In the first of three collaborations with director Vincent Sherman, Joan Crawford brings hard-boiled glamour and simmering passion to the role of Ethel, who moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion to high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one a high-rolling racketeer abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel?s swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.

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Prison Of the Psychotic Damned
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Five psychics plan an overnight expedition into an abandoned insane asylum in search of ghosts from the past, but instead find a horrific demise awaiting them. Will anyone make it out alive?

Prince of Darkness / They Live / Village of the Damned (Triple Feature)

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