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Overview

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5.8/10   606 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Bruce La Bruce (writer)
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Release Date:
18 September 2008 (Germany) more
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Awards:
1 win more
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Otto is a gay zombie. Awesome. more (13 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Jey Crisfar ... Otto
Katharina Klewinghaus ... Medea Yarn/Messy Dancer 1
Susanne Sachße ... Hella Bent/Messy Dancer 2
Marcel Schlutt ... Fritz Fritze
Guido Sommer ... Adolf
Christophe Chemin ... Maximilian
Gio Black Peter ... Rudolf
Mo ... Zombie Boy
Fabrice ... Gay Man 1/Zombie in an Orgy 9
Scott Sechs ... Gay Man 2
Nicholas Fox Ricciardi ... Young Man in Hooded Sweatshirt/Passerby
Keith Böhm ... Man in Suit & Hat
Olivia Barth ... Woman in black Burqa
John Edward Heys ... Old Man
Stephanie Heinrich ... Old Woman (as Stefanie Heinrich)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Otto (Australia)
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Runtime:
94 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Otto: The living all seem like the same person to me and I don't think I like that person very much. more
Soundtrack:
Houses more

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10 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Otto is a gay zombie. Awesome., 15 June 2008
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Author: emma-mcnicol from Germany

Elly belly, you've taken the film too seriously! LaBruce is very grounded, very modest. Genuine issues are explored but in an refreshingly 'anti Godard' manner - he just makes fun of everything! Labruce ridicules politicians but also those against them; how being 'anti-fa' or 'left' is simply a style or fashion now, (particularly in Berlin), hence Medea, too was mocked when declaring out her 'political' banter.

Laugh at the sex scenes. Crazy, absurd, funny. Not shallow, either: the pleasure one derives from viewing pornography is thrown in their face once mixed with the thrill of the blood and guts of a zombie film. Labruce shows both simultaneously, erections and intestines between the same sheets. Despite being literally 'bloody', they are by no means violent or hate motivated. ''Blood and guts'' is just part of what the zombie lovers get down to in the bedroom! They can also have sex with each other's (very very very newly created) orifices!! ha ha.

This is simply a great film, what a deadly cool way to attack homophobia. Thank god for you Labruce.

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