Queer Zombies Storm Bushwick in ‘Queens of the Dead’

The undead divas have entered the chat, and they have zero interest in a tattered wardrobe, honey. Tina Romero’s Queens of the Dead delivers with a capital ‘Q.’ The queer community may have invented camp, but they’ve been left out of comedy-horror for too long. Campy horror always manages to lift my mood, but I’m over queer characters becoming a deadly punchline instead of the ones serving them onstage with a sparkle. 

Queens of the Dead sashays away from the trite tropes we’ve come to expect. Instead, it serves viewers with affectionate stereotypes that let the community in on the jokes, with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge, instead of being the butt of them. 

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