Pics of the Day

One of the most uncomfortable things I've ever experienced was seeing Bruce La Bruce's neo-Nazi porn/art movie Skin Flick at a film festival during college while flanked by two of my best girl friends. You might not guess it knowing me via this blog, but in reality I can be painfully shy and a bit of a prude (thanks Christian upbringing!), and sitting in a crowded theater watching morally questionable - and surely all the hotter because of it - gay sex with two good friends beside me made me want to run screaming from the theater.

So that's been my only exposure to the filmography of Bruce La Bruce. I know Hustler White was controversial when it came out - starring Madonna boy-toy Tony Ward - and he seems to be the bastard step-child of Queer Cinema, always riling people up seemingly for the sake of riling people up... but then, I'm obviously not an expert on Mr. La Bruce, so I'll refrain from making any further comments. He seems to be love-him-or-hate-him though.

So now I see via FilmIck that his next film is a zombie flick, called Otto; or, Up With Dead People, and it's got a website right here. Here are a couple pics (the 2nd is probably NSFW, depending on where you work):


I feel... uncomfortable... again. Damn you, Bruce La Bruce! The website describes Otto thusly:

"Otto; or, Up with Dead People" is a melancholy zombie movie with political overtones that seeks to extend and elaborate the emerging zombie mythology. A modern fable about the loneliness, emptiness, and alienation that results from rampant consumerism and materialism under advanced capitalism, "Otto; or, Up with Dead People" presents as its central character Otto, a young man who may or may not be a zombie, depending on your point of view....

He also has an eating disorder: he has an aversion to consuming human flesh. He's a zombie with an identity crisis....

"Otto; or, Up with Dead People" is a mash-up of genres and media, a modern fable and picaresque about an alienated youth in an increasingly brutal society."

I edited out a lot of bullshit from their description of the film - which ocassionally made me want to gouge my eyes out - just to get across the basic idea of the flick; if you're up for bullshit, click here and read the whole thing. I kinda love the idea of a zombie with an eating disorder though.

And there are more photographs from the film here. Consider me curious. Cautiously so.
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