Press kit
“A queer psychological horror short indie film about drag, labor, passion & survival.”
“OMG it’s so demented and weird I love it!”
-Audience Member, rough cut screening, Oakland 2026
“Such a lil mindfuck”
-Audience Member, rough cut screening, Oakland 2026
“It touches on so many levels for me - I love it”
-Audience Member, rough cut screening, Oakland 2026
AT A GLANCE
DIRECTOR MeMeCherry
PRODUCTION CO MeMeCherry Productions
GENRE Queer Psychological Horror
RUNTIME 9:40 minutes
STATUS Post Prod | Submitting to festivals 2026
TUCKED is available for private screening by festival programmers and press. Request access at MeMe@MeMeCherry.com
THE STORY
TUCKED follows a drag performer navigating the brutal intersection of performance, identity, and economic survival. When the glamour fades and the lights go down, what does it cost to keep the show going?
Set against the underground drag scene of Oakland, the film blurs the line between horror and reality — asking who gets to survive, and at what price.
director’s statement
TUCKED began as a question I couldn't stop asking: what happens to the performer when the audience goes home?
Drag is labor. It is creative, emotional, and physical work — and like so much labor in this country, it is chronically undervalued.
I wanted to make a film that sits in the discomfort of that tension. Horror felt like the right genre because the fear is already real. The monsters are economic. The dread is structural. The film is a love letter to the Bay Area's drag community and a reckoning with what we ask artists to sacrifice.
My hope is that audiences leave unsettled — by forcing them to look inward and ask: "What is my role in the capitalist machine that requires artists to sometimes go mad to survive?"
The resulting terror should be the recognition of their own complicity in "what we've normalized in the light", making the true "monsters" the economic and structural dread that dictate the price of the drag performer's identity and survival.