Today for our month long celebration of Black Vampires in partnership with Fabulize Magazine, we highlight Akasha - Queen of the Damned!!! Queen of the Damned is a 2002 film based on the third novel of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned (1988). The film stars @Aaliyah in her final film role. āI had a lot of fun doing [Queen of the Damned]. I was very excited to be part of a vampire film, because I've been a lover of vampires since I was very young,ā the āTry Againā singer explained to @ET in May of 2001. āAnd not only was this a vampire film -- it was Anne Rice.ā The Queen of the Damned deals with the origins of vampires themselves. The mother of all vampires, Akasha, begins as a pre-Egyptian queen, in a land called Kemet, many thousands of years ago. As the source of all vampires, Akasha is connected to all vampires by the blood and spirit they collectively share. In an experiment by the first Keeper, Akasha and Enkil are exposed to sunlight when they are several thousand years old. This merely results in a mild sun burn. However, the result on all other vampires is extreme, and many of the weakest vampires die, thus confirming the legend that anything that harms Akasha will also directly affect all of her progeny. #QueenoftheDamned #AnneRice #Aaliyah #TheVampireChroniciles #InterviewwiththeVampire #QueenAkasha #Akasha #LestatDeLioncourt #sistahscifi, #sistahscificelebratesblackvampires #blackspeculativefictionmonth, #BlackVampires @annericeauthor (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkLiHu-p5AM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
