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Death Drop Gorgeous

Play trailer 1:31 Poster for Death Drop Gorgeous Released Sep 10, 2021 1h 44m Horror Comedy LGBTQ+ Play Trailer Watchlist
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A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen fight to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood.
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Brandon Stanwyck InSession Film The film trips over its own hem from time to time, but I was never not entertained, and that has to count for something. Rated: B Jul 16, 2024 Full Review Jessica Scott We Who Walk Here Death Drop Gorgeous is a campy neo-giallo delight soaked in blood, gristle, and glitter. Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Dumb, offensive, low-budget, trashy and hilarious, but it wouldn't be a camptastic exercise extravagance if it wasn't, right? Rated: 3/5 Mar 21, 2022 Full Review Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast A ridiculously campy low budget horror indie. Payton St James' performance is inspired and while not everything works, the film is obviously a labour of love. Worth recommending for the glory hole sequence alone Rated: 3.5/5 Mar 16, 2022 Full Review Eric Langberg The Queer Review Suitably messy, all-out ridiculous, clearly made for very little money, and an absolute blast to watch... An immediate queer horror classic. Rated: 4/5 Feb 11, 2022 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills This is a good-looking goof with beaucoup de energy... Sep 20, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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PridePosterStudios The twist was lame but so was the film in general. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/21/24 Full Review madi m Pure camp. An amazing ode to great horror movies of the ages, while also making a commentary on the LGBTQ scene and its gate keeping against anyone "too femme." If you go in expecting camp you won't be disappointed. If you try and slice this into pieces…well you might just be next on the list. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Written and directed by Christopher Dalpe, Brandon Perras (who also played Tony Two Fingers, as well as doing the cinematography and editing) and Michael J. Ahern (who was Detective O'Hara), Death Drop Gorgeous presents a slasher world that we haven't seen, well, nearly ever in the form: a campy, gay-positive glitter, makeup neon and booze-soaked — not to mention incredibly hilarious — murder saga. Dwayne (Wayne Gonsalves) has just had a bad breakup, which brings him back home to Rhode Island and a place on the couch in the apartment of his friend Brian (Christopher Dalpe). As he pieces his life back together, he keeps moving somewhat backward, even getting his old bartending gig back, working at The Aut Haus alongside Tragedi (Complete Destruction), Janet Fitness (Matthew Pidge) and, perhaps most importantly, Gloria Hole (Michael McAdam), an aging drag queen who doesn't draw in the young customers. Unbeknownst to our hero, several club patrons and employees have already been killed and drained of their blood by a social hookup app using serial killer named The Vampire, with owner Tony Two Fingers paying off the cops to stay open. But when Brian goes missing — last seen getting into a cab driven by Linnea Quigley alongside Gloria — Dwayne starts keeping his eyes open. I've never seen a movie where a man is killed with a meat grinder at a glory hole, directly followed by a scene with someone eating sausages, so this is quite obviously groundbreaking stuff. It's even more amazing when you consider that most of the cast were non-actors and the movie was filmed almost exclusively in Providence on weekends over the course of a year and a half. The film wouldn't work if it was all comedy, so the slasher/giallo parts all work just as well if not better. That's a testament to the work on screen. I've always believed that determining that if a movie is a giallo or a slasher means answering a few questions: Do we care more about who the killer is than the killings themselves? Is there good music? And is there plenty of fashion? The answer to all of those questions is yes and I find it happily wonderful that the best two giallo-esque movies of the past decade — and the ones not slavishly bound to the conventions of the genre so much that they become pastiche — would be this film and Knife + Heart, two LGBTQ-positive films in a genre best known for gorgeous and fashionable women being killed in, well, gorgeous and fashionable ways. That's not to say that this movie is all Bava lighting and dubbed dialogue. It's a movie onto itself, filled with high energy, hilarious dialogue and a creative team whose lack of experience surprised me, because unlike the majority of direct to streaming films that come to us, this feels like the kind of movie that I'd rush to the theater — well, you know, in any other timeline — to see. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A dejected bartender and an aging drag queen fight to survive the eccentric and hostile nightlife of a corrupt city, as a masked maniac slaughters young gay men and drains them of blood.
Director
Michael J. Ahern, Christopher Dalpe, Brandon Perras-Sanchez
Screenwriter
Michael J. Ahern, Brandon Perras-Sanchez, Christopher Dalpe
Distributor
Dark Star Pictures
Genre
Horror, Comedy, LGBTQ+
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 10, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 10, 2021
Runtime
1h 44m
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