Filmmaker’s Tribeca Debut Turns a Brooklyn Drag Rave Into a Glitter-Soaked Battleground

In her feature-length directorial debut, Tina Romero puts a vibrant, LGBTQ+ twist on the zombie genre with Queens of the Dead , a comedy-horror survival romp set in Brooklyn on the eve of an undead uprising, as reported by Entertainment Weekly. As a drag show spirals into chaos and the city locks down, a defiant band of queer partygoers becomes humanity’s last line of defense—armed with defiance, flamboyance, and even a glitter-covered, makeshift shield.

The film will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on June 7.

Romero, daughter of legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, does not attempt to disguise the lineage she comes from. The film includes knowing nods to her father’s work,

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