The sweaty-palmed lads who grinned in Grindhouse theaters while monsters and murderers mowed down scared, scantily clad sluts never doubted that porn and horror films had a blood brother-like bond. But few directors have so gallantly brought the cum- and blood-soaked genres together like Bruce LaBruce.
Bruce LaBruce is a legend in the satellite genres of gay porn, art, gonzo journalism, independent cinema, punk, and academia. Born Bryan Bruce in Ontario, he studied film theory at Toronto’s York University and earned his stripes writing punk zines, starring in underground porn, and filming witty hardcore satire on Super 8. His 1999 film Skin Flick/Skin Gang was hardcore gay skinhead porn, and his 2004 Raspberry Reich combined “terrorist chic” with “a porno-political-palooza.”
Here we have coffee a few blocks from the Berlin branch of Peres Projects to discuss the untitled zombie hardcore porn flick that BLaB will screen at Peres Projects L.A. this month. After his first zombie film, Otto; or Up With Dead People, received raves, BLaB decided to riff on the theme of political zombie porn….
