‘Big Easy Queens’ is the latest film to star a fierce and fabulous set of drag queens as they face dangers and horrors like zombies and voodoos!
The film features all-new original music from Eric Swanson (Miss Bouvèé), Benjamin Shaevitz, Jennifer McClain, and Matthew Darren.
In an interview with Pride, Director Erynn Dalton said she wanted to uplift the LGBTQ+ community through this exciting project and Swanson echoed the sentiment when he revealed that ‘Big Easy Queens’ was filmed in Florida where anti-drag laws are implemented. The horror film also premiered in Popcorn Frights in Florida where they met support from the organizers despite the ban.
“They said, ‘I don’t care. Let them try to shut us down. You guys are performing.’ We felt very supported in our community,” Dalton added.
The official synopsis of the film is “Eighty minutes of pure horror queer celebration with original musical numbers, voodoo, zombies, Drag Queens, and campy neo-giallo delight soaked in blood, gristle, and glitter, oh my! In this “glam horror” righteous extravaganza, a battle for territory requires the Bouvèé sisters to set aside their differences to become the “Big Easy Queens!”
“Entirely made-in-Florida and set in the steamy underworld, ‘BIG EASY QUEENS’ follows Minnie Bouvèé, Mob Queen of the Quarter, and her rivalry with her arch-nemesis, Poodles Makenzie. After Minnie Bouvèé has Poodles Makenzie’s crew brutally slaughtered, she braces for the blowback; what she doesn’t expect, however, is to be stalked by a creepy masked figure who leaves behind bouquets of gardenias and terrifying notes. Is this Poodles’ revenge, or the work of Minnie’s estranged sister who stole her man years ago and has suddenly reappeared in her life?”
