Review: Queens of the Dead (2025)
By William Pattison
Drag queens and other members of the LGBQ battle zombies
craving brains during a zombie outbreak at their drag show in Brooklyn, putting
personal conflicts aside to utilize their distinct abilities against the undead
threat.
There have been a lot of variations of zombie films over the
years including punks rockers, prostitutes, and strippers. Now, finally, we get
a zombie film featuring drag queens. Perfect team up for a horror comedy. I
loved the characters in this film, but I thought the story was ok.
There was definitely not enough drag queens. I saw only
three and one was a zombie.
Also I hated the
zombie makeup because for some reason the filmmakers decided to paint all the
zombies with silver paint, that was it just silver paint.
I did like that they
injected incidental music that reminded me of Day of the Dead. They also had a
cameo of Tom Savini.
But in the end I have to say that this film fails to be a
good zombie film. Shoot, the zombies were hardly in it, but thank goodness
because silver skinned zombies just don’t work.
So, I cannot recommend this film because I really wanted a
funny drag queen and zombie film, but this isn’t it. Sorry…
