Enter the Drag Dragon

"Enter the Drag Dragon" is a low budget, zombie, mummy, action-adventure, drag-queen comedy, and it's a love letter to Ottawa and the Mayfair Theatre. Yes, it's ridiculous, and yes, it does look cheaply made, but that's the fun of it. Lee Gordon Demarbre, the film's director, went to high school in Ottawa, graduated from Carleton in film studies and currently does the programming at the Mayfair Theatre. I love the Mayfair. My father worked there when he was in high school. I used to live just on the other side of the Bank Street bridge and I've been going regularly since grade 6  So what is "Enter the Drag Dragon" all about? It's about a drag queen detective named Crunch who finds a treasure map to a cave where a mummy lives, which is guarded by zombies but the Aztec Mummy's spirit lives in the Mayfair where Crunch also lives along with Jaws and Fast Buck. It doesn't make a lot of sense but who cares?! It's fun. There are drag queens with cock-cucks  (think nunchucks, but with rubber cocks for the handles) who battle breeders. Crunch announces what these cock-cucks stand for like Nic Cage announces what his snakeskin jacket represents in "Wild at Heart." There is sky diving, laser rings, cyborgs, exploding outhouses, and boobies! It's bananas, but in such a fun way. A lot of the cast work at Ottawa's other great theatre, The Bytowne. I smiled from beginning to end. Oh, and I have a one second cameo at the end of the film - me, sitting in the Mayfair Theatre; nothing could be better than that. Catch the greatest low budget drag-queen action-adventure movie every made - at the Mayfair hopefully.  Maybe at the Bytowne.