Tina Romero’s Zombie Film, ‘Queens of the Lifeless,’ Has a Queer, Gory, and Gleeful First Trailer

You’ll be able to’t have the final title “Romero” and launch a zombie film that flies underneath the radar—which is why it’s so pleasant that Tina Romero, daughter of late zombie film legend George A. Romero, is making her function directorial debut with the glittery, flashy, gory, proudly queer, and over-the-top-looking Queens of the Dead. The primary trailer is right here, and it doesn’t disappoint.

There’s nonetheless a George A. Romero-adjacent zombie movie within the works, titled Twilight of the Dead—final we heard, Milla Jovovich is about to star—however Queens of the Lifeless is its personal entity, apart from the shared monster themes, in fact.

Right here’s the official synopsis: “A zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night time of an enormous warehouse occasion, the place an eclectic group of drag queens, membership youngsters, and frenemies should put apart their drama and use their distinctive expertise to combat towards the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead.”

Tina Romero directed and co-wrote with Erin Decide; the solid contains Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding, The Mandalorian, and shortly to be seen in The Working Man), Jaquel Spivey (Imply Women), Tomas Matos (Hearth Island), Nina West (RuPaul’s Drag Race), Jack Haven (I Noticed the TV Glow), Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story), Dominique Jackson (Pose), and Margaret Cho.

After successful an viewers award on the 2025 Tribeca Movie Pageant and screening on the Fantasia Worldwide Movie Pageant, Queens of the Lifeless has its theatrical debut October 24.

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