Queens of the Dead2025

I love how zombie movies, more than any other horror subgenre, have a very clear, mostly accepted family tree. Obviously we start with Night of the Living Dead no matter what we're talking about. From there, an Italian film called Zombi 2 split the subgenre into two timelines: Romero and/or Fulci. Both grew solid foundations and limbs. But early on, the Romero timeline split into 2: the Romero and Russo timelines. Russo cowrote Night of the Living Dead and retained rights to "Living Dead." That's why Romeros sequels were Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, etc. Eventually Russo gets a sequel with Living Dead in the title greenlit, thus creating an early timeline split between Russo's Living Dead and Romero's Dead. The first Living Dead sequel was, of course, Return of the Living Dead. Who could forget Lianna Quigley as Trash? I contend that Queens of the Living Dead stems from Return of the Living Dead timeline because it's not Italian, its tonally more like Russo, and a reporter literally says "this is not a George Romero movie ". Therefore, it is quite evident that this film branches off the Return of the Living Dead series. I loved it!