Thursday, October 13, 2011

Gay zombies!

Here's a fun film for you: L.A. Zombie. It's a gay zombie horror movie! And it's porn! Others claim it is art.



L.A. Zombie was directed by Bruce LaBruce, who also directed Otto; or Up With Dead People, another gay zombie movie (which, however, as far as I can tell, is not a porno). Judging from his filmography, LaBruce seems to have two main interests: violence & gay sex. We get lots of both in this movie!

Wikipedia describes the movie's plot thusly:

A homeless schizophrenic (François Saget), thinks he's an alien zombie sent to earth. Roaming the streets of Los Angeles in search of dead bodies, he tries to bring the dead back to life by engaging in homosexual sex.
This sounds like a winner, folks. I'm not entirely sure, though, about Wikipedia's synopsis; here's another:
The main protagonist rises from the sea, with as much clout and allure as Ursula Andress herself in that famous Bond scene. He's a zombie or maybe he's just a bit deranged and fancies himself as an undead creature. He sports canine teeth and is dressed like a homeless. Good looking young guys get killed or die in accidents. He finds them, gives them the fuck of life right into their wound, they open their eyes. They have become zombie too and lead the life of tramps around LA. People don't seem to even notice their presence.
Oh. So I guess that was pretty much it.

See it's like, a metaphor for how people ignore homeless people or for, like, how homosexuals are marginalized, like, by society.
Whatever. It's a gay porno with zombies & a lot of fake blood.

Some more points about the movie:
  • It's star, François Saget, has a tattoo of hair on his head instead of hair on his head.*
  • It was banned in Australia.
  • There is a literal skullfucking in this movie. (If you watch the trailer, you can watch our protagonist caress the head-hole at about 2:15 in).
  • The movie was shown in an art gallery, so even if it is terrible it may be Art, which makes it good. (Unless you're not pretentious enough to understand how.)
  • Some of the actors in this movie were actual homeless people. That's pretty avant-garde, so I guess it's another point for Art.
  • There is no dialogue in this movie. ART.
  • Did I mention it's a hard-core porn? There is a lot of fucking in this movie.
  • I'm sorry, it's not porn. It's Art.** I cannot stress this enough.
  • Oh, Jesus this is the best part: here, it's stated that L.A. Zombie "features safe sex". Oh good. I was worried about that.
Art!

Porn!





*
I probably could've found  picture of him with his clothes on but why bother?

** Bruce LaBruce on art and porn: "All of my work has been about that line. You can situate yourself on either side of the line without really altering the work itself. I could take a picture for Honcho magazine, but can take the same image and put it in a frame in an art gallery, and it becomes art. For me that speaks to the arbitrary nature of those labels." via

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