Canadian bad boy Bruce LaBruce’s latest, “Otto; or, Up with Dead People,” is a gory, post-apocalyptic, gay zombie porn comedy horror film. The plot, which unfolds in flashbacks and a film-within-a-film structure, has director Medea Yarn (Katharina Klewinghaus) shooting a movie about the undead star, sexy Fritz (Marcel Schlutt), and her new discovery, Otto (Jey Crisfar), a gay zombie with an identity crisis.
On the phone from his home in Canada, LaBruce discussed the origins of his film and his title character.
“A lot of young people I talk to on the Internet, or run into while traveling, are dead inside – really alienated from a lot of the things going on now,” he said. “From the corrupt political situation, to the corporate control of media, and the return of nuclear threats, everyone seems to agree that the world is pretty unstable. I don’t think the film is very farfetched on a fear level in terms of its tone and critique of the world as it exists at the moment.”
