{"id":6580,"date":"2025-10-17T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:27:22","slug":"i-just-feel-like-the-gays-need-a-zombie-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6580\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Just Feel Like The Gays Need A Zombie Film\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"KatyKaty O’Brian is crowned a scream queen in Queens of the Dead (2025), IFC Films\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Dawn and Day of the Dead director George Romero may have passed on but his legacy is rising again. His daughter, for example, is carrying on his work in a new zombie film made for modern audiences (with everything that entails in mind). Tina Romero is ready to unleash the next chapter in her dad\u2019s undead lineage, and it\u2019s for the gays.<\/p>\n

\"GeorgeGeorge Romero speaks with the eponymous host of George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (2020), CBC<\/p>\n

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Speaking with Entertainment Weekly<\/a> (via ComicBookMovie<\/a>), Tina Romero discussed the motivations for making Queens of the Living Dead. \u201cThe zombie apocalypse is such a rich sandbox to play in when it comes to social commentary. I can\u2019t be my dad\u2019s daughter without making an attempt at saying something with zombies,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI did want this to be a film in which I am paying homage to the world and the monster he created, but I\u2019m also introducing my own voice. It\u2019s very much not a film he would make, but it is using his vocabulary and is playing by his rules. As far as the queer element, on one hand, I just feel like the gays need a zombie film. It\u2019s time that we get to have a big gay zombie movie,\u201d Romero continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

George Romero’s daughter, Tina Romero, unveils ‘Queens of the Dead,’ showing a first look at her ‘big gay zombie movie.’ https:\/\/t.co\/c0WF0xJajI<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cI am his kid. There\u2019s no denying it. And he has influenced me greatly,\u201d she said when addressing homages to her father in the film. \u201cAnd this is his monster, this is his genre. I had fun doing my little Romero nods throughout the film, and we have some good ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her father\u2019s work and influence will probably never die with the never-ending hordes of zombies that keep coming to eat our brains through the cinematic medium. Each of Romero\u2019s Living Dead installments has either been remade, ripped off, reimagined, or paid tribute in some way over the last 50 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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There is no stopping what comes out of the grave even if we\u2019ve seen it a dozen times already. A new Night of the Living Dead is also in production from Turn: Washington\u2019s Spies writer LaToya Morgan, Nanny director Nikyata Jusu, and Romero\u2019s widow Christine Forrest Romero\u00a0<\/p>\n

Queens of the Dead stars Katy O\u2019Brian of Love Lies Bleeding, Margaret Cho, and Jack Haven (Brigette Lundy-Paine) of I Saw the TV Glow. Here\u2019s the synopsis: \u201ca zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, where an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty undead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The zombie \u201cqueens\u201d unleash on October 24th.<\/p>\n

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