Queens of the Dead

"They're dead...and they're eating."

Director: Tina Romero Year: 2025 Runtime: 101 min IMDb: ⭐ 5.1
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Synopsis

The film follows a group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies who must put aside their personal dramas and use their unique skills to fight the flesh-thirsty undead when a zombie apocalypse breaks out on the night of a giant warehouse party

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Content Warnings

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someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
there's addiction
Yes
alcohol abuse
Yes
someone uses drugs
Yes
an animal dies
spoiler A lot of rats (that don't look overly real). Details below. Near the beginning a dead rat is pulled out of a toilet. Later in the movie a rat is hit like a golf ball and the character assumes the rat was alive. It is later revealed that there are a lot of zombie rats who are electrocuted and shown dead and limp. Toilet rat scene is shortly after the bar opens and they're at the bar. Dead rat is shown again when the plumber goes outside to throw it in the dumpster. A lot of rats scene is when they go into the basement to switch on the breaker. Golf moment is here too, so you can skip to the next scene completely if this makes you uncomfortable
there's a dead animal
Yes
someone breaks a bone
Yes
someone is drugged
Yes
someone is restrained
Yes
a kid dies
spoiler There is a zombie baby
a major character dies
Yes
someone dies
Yes
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
someone overdoses
spoiler A character in the hospital is there after overdosing. Another character takes pills and shows up after as a zombie implying they probably died of overdose
there are razors
Yes
there's natural bodies of water
Yes
someone vomits
spoiler 34 minutes in, Lizzy vomits into a sink. Short. Easy to know when it's going to happen as she covers her hand with her mouth when she enters the room. I don't know if visual, but definitely audio. Again at 37 minutes when the scene cuts from the mayor to Lizzy again. Immediate.
someone is eaten
Yes
there's spitting
Yes
there's eye mutilation
Yes
teeth are damaged
Yes
there is copaganda
spoiler Cops are referred to as behaving badly during all of this and the characters work to avoid them. No on-screen cop violence, but the threat exists.
there are transphobic slurs
spoiler No but there is misgendering
there's deadnaming or birthnaming
spoiler Near the beginning a nurse talks to a patient, they start to say her dead name since that's what's on her chart but she cuts him off and tells him her actual name
there's a hospital scene
spoiler Several scenes throughout the movie take place at a hospital
someone has a meltdown
Yes
someone's throat is mutilated
spoiler Throats bitten into and ripped out by a zombie
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler Most of the movie is set at a club, so there are multiple scenes where there are stage lights flashing around
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there is a baby or unborn child
spoiler Someone is pregnant and you see the ultrasound.
someone is misgendered
spoiler It’s done to make a point, but several people are misgendered throughout.
there's fat jokes
spoiler I don't remember any fat jokes, but a lot of characters talk about being fit or skinny for glam reasons. Fat characters are included in the story and are not simply used as a joke. (I really hope I didn't forget a fat joke!)
someone speaks hate speech
spoiler There is misgendering by a straight cis guy who is overall sorta transphobic for a part of the movie but nothing explicitly hate speech or anything
an LGBT person dies
spoiler The characters are queer except for the token straight guy. IIRC none of the alphabet are entirely wiped out, even an enby survives until the end of the movie.
there's antisemitism
spoiler When the apocalypse is starting one of the characters asks if the zombies are lizard people. But nothing else is said
the black guy dies first
spoiler Not a guy, but a black drag queen dies first, and I wanted to flag it since it did make me worry! There are other black drag queens in the movie, so the first black queen isn't killed for being a token. She is seen throughtout the movie as well. (Iirc the black character deaths are the most violent though.)
there's a large age gap
spoiler There is an age gap between two women but we don't know their exact ages but it's nothing uncomfortable, they are both adults. One is I'd say late 20sish and the other is late 50s
religion is discussed
Yes
there's end credits scenes?
Yes
there's blood/gore
spoiler Not sure why someone said no. Someone takes an axe to the leg about 30 minutes in, and it shows closeups several times.
there's shaving/cutting
Yes
someone is stabbed
Yes
someone falls to their death
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes

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