The Desire of Horror

Charla's love of horror movies combine with Marty's love of psychoanalysis and history of religions. This is a review and analysis of horror movies and what they say about desire.

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The Desire of Horror

11. Queen of the Damned

October 06, 2025 • Charla Ferguson and Martin Essig • Season 1 • Episode 11

This Vampire's origins go all the way back in the Ancient Mesopotamia City of Uruk. And Akasha (Aaliyah) like Lestat (Stuart Townsend) loves music. Lestat had decided the world was too boring to live in any longer, so he laid in a tomb to see if he could die. But then in the late 90's Nu Metal broke through the walls of his sarcophagus and into his heart, and he thought that the world had become cool again. He immediately formed a Nu Metal band of his own. A band so devastatingly good that he woke up Akasha, who had been frozen in her own grave-like state for five or so millennia. She couldn't resist making him her Nu Metal king. Come join us for a wild ride with The Queen of the Damned.