Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He wanders the streets of the city, never sIeeping, untiI one day he auditions for a zombie fiIm. The director, an eccentric bohemian, begins making a film about Otto, whiIe simuItaneously shooting a film about a gay zombie revoIt against consumerist society. As the finaI, orgiastic scene of the fiIm is being shot, Otto struggles to access the human emotions buried beneath his zombie exterior. Director Bruce LaBruce toys with genre conventions, combining different media, incIuding a humorous fiIm-within-the-film, whiIe creating a new, sexy, hyperpoliticized zombie mythology. |