Based on the book The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice, Damned continues the story of the Vampire Lestat, Tom Cruise’s character in Interview With the Vampire. Lestat has become a rock star, but his music wakes up the 6,000-year-old queen of the vampires, Akasha (Aaliyah), who then decides she wants Lestat to help her get revenge on some of her former male followers and to co-rule the vampires with her.