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Warning for people who do not like EXPLICIT SEX in drama. There is in this movie!
Queer film auteur Bruce LaBruce (No Skin Off My Ass, Super 8 1/2, Hustler White, Otto; Or, Up with Dead People) raises the stakes for art porn with his controversial new film L.A. ZOMBIE. It has enthralled and disgusted audiences in equal measure at the Locarno Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival and was officially banned (refused governmental classification), but still secretly screened, in Australia. LaBruce’s gay zombie horror porn is all of those things, but it is also experimental in form, often lyrical in tone, and has an underlying social message for those who want to find it. “Let’s get a few things out of the way. L.A. Zombie is a hardcore gay porn film. There are numerous scenes of men having graphic sex shot in the manner of pornography, not art film erotica. The film also continues Bruce LaBruce’s longstanding love affair with genre, with plenty of low-tech, half-eaten corpses, lots of spurting blood and a most unusually-shaped zombie penis that dominates the film’s psycho-sexual world. Fair warning?
But L.A. Zombie is very much an art film, too. In fact, it is one of the most poignant films about dashed expectations and the ennui of poverty I can recall by a Canadian filmmaker. Its tone in some ways recalls LaBruce’s revelatory first film, No Skin Off My Ass, but trades in LaBruce’s hairdresser persona for a more fractured narrative gaze, a perspective borne from the city itself and reminiscent of Jacques Rivette’s Paris nous appartient. This sets L.A. Zombie far apart from LaBruce’s last ten years of hardcore work, which has tended to strike a satirical, confrontational tone, perhaps most notably in his agitprop phenomenon The Raspberry Reich.
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