Drag is the kind of film that you want to go into completely blind. I will not spoil anything in this review!
Drag (2026) comes from the mind of Raviv Ullman, best known as the star of Disney’s Phil of the Future. Coming out of SXSW, this is my favorite film of the festival. What he’s created is something far darker, stranger, and funnier than I could have imagined.
Drag takes a deceptively simple premise and turns it into a pressure-cooker of chaos. The film asks a question you don’t usually see explored. For example, what happens when a burglary goes wrong in the most physically limiting way possible?
Drag gets everything right
The film stars Lizzy Caplan (Fatal Attraction) and Lucy DeVito as sisters on the outs. While trying to bond, Caplan convinces her sister to be her look-out while she robs a bar patron (John Stamos) who always stiffs her on tips. However, things take a turn when she suffers a back injury mid-heist. What should have been a quick job spirals into a ticking-clock nightmare as pain sets in and the homeowner’s return creeps closer.
Drag is a film that hurts to watch. The injuries are toe-curling, with sequences that make you recoil while you still can’t look away. The cinematography often foreshadows what’s about to happen just enough to let you know what’s coming. But, instead of softening the blow, it allows you to prepare. And somehow…that makes it worse.
Because Drag thrives on its twists, its tonal pivots, and its willingness to get weird, it’s shocking, funny, deeply uncomfortable at times, and never quite what you expect. The score by Patrick Stump keeps tightening the screws, guiding the film’s tonal shifts from dark comedy to horror into something far more unhinged.
I truly cannot say anymore. See it. Enjoy the ride!
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