{"id":224472,"date":"2026-05-08T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224472\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:03:10","slug":"brazils-transgressive-queer-pulp-gem-the-devil-queen-in-theaters-this-june-horror-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224472\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Transgressive Queer Pulp Gem THE DEVIL QUEEN In Theaters This June \u2013 Horror Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NEW 4K RESTORATION<\/p>\n

In Theaters in NYC and LA June 17th<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/p>\n

\ufeffIn the underworld of 1970s Rio de Janeiro, the feared \u201cDevil\u2019s Queen\u201d rules a drug cartel from the back room of a brothel. Draped in green eyeshadow and menace, she commands loyalty with a jackknife that serves equally for shaving legs and slitting throats. Her grip on power begins to falter as rival factions \u2014 favela gangsters, drag queens, and sex workers \u2014 turn on one another in a violent struggle to claim her throne, exposing a world where those excluded from bourgeois society fight for dominance on the margins.<\/p>\n

Directed by Ant\u00f4nio Carlos de Fontoura during Brazil\u2019s military dictatorship, this lurid tale is loosely inspired by the legendary 1930s gangster Jo\u00e3o Francisco dos Santos. The film reimagines the figure in a 1970s setting as an early, provocative representation of queerness. As The Devil Queen, Milton Gon\u00e7alves delivers a striking performance that destabilizes rigid notions of masculinity, dissolving the binary of macho and queen into something volatile and unforgettable.<\/p>\n

Restored by CinemaSc\u00f3pio and Cinelimite.<\/p>\n

1974 \/ Color \/ 99 min \/ Brazil \/ Portuguese with English subtitles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW 4K RESTORATION In Theaters in NYC and LA June 17th Synopsis \ufeffIn the underworld of 1970s Rio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-224472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}