Rotten
Moviegoers with a LaBruce fetish will appreciate another imaginative offering from the filmmaker. Mainstream audiences should stay far, far away.
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
Otto; or, Up with Dead People
Is it possible to come back from the dead?
2008 · 1h 34m · NOT RATED Comedy, Drama, Horror
Overview
A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is still trying to finish Up with Dead People, the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that he has a wallet that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember details about his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
42%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Otto deliriously intermingles sex and entrails but is also imaginative and witty
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
LaBruce devotees will be tickled pink; others will be perplexed and/or disgusted.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
One of the more disciplined entries in the LaBruce oeuvre, Otto is sexy and silly in just the right proportions, a cult item with a real heart.
Nathan Lee, New York Times
Rotten
Calling a zombie movie lifeless is bad enough. But when the charge is leveled at a gay zombie movie by Bruce LaBruce, queer cinema's most radical fairy, the disappointment cuts that much deeper.
Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York
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