Sundance. Otto; or Up With Dead People.

"Otto doesn't just take the pre-established conventions and break them down; Otto breaks them down, turns them over, sets them on fire, and then has sex with them. Gay sex," notes Jim Rohner at Zoom In Online. "You see, Otto (Jey Crisfar) is a gay zombie who thinks, talks, and debates whether he even wants to eat humans."

"Given that gay film-makers have a long history with the genre - from James Whale to Clive Barker to Chucky creator Don Mancini - and the fact that much of the gay community has been consumed by a blood-borne epidemic for close on 30 years, it's a wonder a gay zombie film hasn't come along before," writes Matthew Hays in the Guardian. "But [Bruce] LaBruce says his inspiration had less to do with HIV infection and more to do with that staple of the zombie sub-genre, consumerism in a postmodern state. 'Vampires were the go-to metaphor for Aids in the 1980s,' says LaBruce. 'Films like The Hunger were big. I like the idea of zombies, because they just wander around aimlessly, their souls gone, mindless consumers.'"

Bruce LaBruce blogged his stay in Park City for CBC.

Posted by dwhudson at February 2, 2008 11:32 AM