20 Awesome Recent Horror Movies That Flopped At The Box Office
9. Queens of the Dead
Queens of the Dead is the spirited directorial debut of Tina Romero, daughter of zombie movie pioneer George A. Romero, which makes the most of its riotous drag-queens-versus-the-undead premise, aided by the fine efforts of a game ensemble cast.
While George A. Romero's zombie films generally performed extremely well at the box office, expectations were certainly different for this more fringe homage - especially as IFC released it in just 150 U.S. cinemas.
But even with rave reviews, Queens of the Dead grossed just $113,123 on the big screen, suggesting that the film's marketing failed to sufficiently sell its premise.
Even accepting that a zombie movie centred around drag and queer culture was always going to have a limited audience, it's very clearly a film best watched with a crowd, and so it's a shame this one didn't catch on as the campy midnight movie it undeniably is.
As horror streaming service Shudder helped co-finance the film, though, that probably takes a lot of the sting out of its box office run.