Really digging Andy Campbell’s review of Bruce LaBruce’s new film Otto; or, Up with Dead People from The Austin Chronicle’s fabulous Gay Place Blog. The film was recently shown as part of the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival.
Excerpt:
Unlike any other Zombie flick, LaBruce exploits the revolutionary potential of the un-dead: Zombies are nature’s way of getting back at a world driven to destruction by late capitalism, and homosexuality becomes part and parcel of this outlaw status. Honestly, in LaBruce’s hands, it makes a strange sort of sense that zombies would be gay. It’s a final and horrific middle finger to the living status quo.
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