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WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE about a film that could be summed up as "He's 18. He's cute. He's dead"--a film whose credits include characters identified as "Lascivious Ballet Dancer #9," "Orgy Zombie #5," and "Yummy Boy Eating Ice Cream Cone"?
Otto; or, Up With Dead People, a gay zombie movie with a beating, if not actually bleeding, heart, is the latest offering from cult Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. After assaulting us with Red Army Faction sex terrorism in The Raspberry Reich (2004) and queer neo-Nazi skinheads in Skin Flick (1999), LaBruee outdoes himself in Otto, gnawing at our entrails with the affecting story of a young zombie looking not for flesh but soul in...
