The 1st trailer for Bruce LaBruce's "
L.A. Zombie" has been released. Revisiting the zombie and porn genres he worked with on his last film "
Otto; Or, Up with Dead People", "L.A. Zombie" stars porn star
Francois Sagat (who LaBruce worked with previously on his installation "Untitled Hardcore Zombie Project" a few months back) and features appearances from out rapper
Deadlee and Project Runway alum
Santino Rice .
You can read Bruce's writing on "L.A. Zombie" and his history with the idea of zombies and porn in his work after the cut and check out the
Gay of the Dead story on
Bruce LaBruce and the film on Fangoria.
"Zombies and porn. What a beautiful combination. I have been dealing in both genres since the early nineties when I made No Skin Off My Ass, my first sexually explicit feature film, and co-starred in my friend Candys short film Interview with a Zombie, in which I played a gay member of the undead. Against all professional advice, I've been making porn movies ever since, albeit reluctantly. (I'm not a particularly avid consumer of porn, and I don't follow the industry; not unpretentiously, I consider myself not so much a pornographer as an artist who works in porn"
After making three sexually explicit features films (NSOMA, Super 8 1/2, and Hustler White), in 1999 I wrote and directed my first legitimate porno film, Skin Flick, made under the auspices of the German porn company Cazzo Films. The subject was neo-Nazi skinheads, characters that, one could argue, have a certain zombie-like quality. The hardcore version, released under the title Skin Gang, was a full-on pornographic product shot in a relatively conventional porn style, and packaged and promoted with an adult entertainment industry in mind. (It was even nominated for nine gay adult video awards in the U.S.)
My following film, The Raspberry Reich (2004), about a gang of extreme left wing would-be terrorists another zombie-esque bunch was also conceived as a porn product, although the softcore version, which nonetheless contained sexually explicit material, managed to play at over 150 film festivals worldwide. (The hardcore version, entitled The Revolution Is My Boyfriend, was released by the porn company Wurstfilm.) In 2008 I finally stopped pussyfooting around the living dead them and made an actual zombie flick, called Otto; or, Up with Dead People.
Another of my sexually explicit art films, Otto also played at more than 150 film fests despite, or perhaps because of, the infamous gut-fucking scene, in which a gay zombie penetrates a hole in the stomach of a fellow gay zombie with his undead cock. While touring the world with the film I found myself in interviews making the lofty pronouncement that I believe zombie porn is the wave of the future, and that we will soon routinely see porous, corrupted flesh being penetrated by legions of lascivious zombies. (Zombie porn is practical: you can create your own orifice!)
So by way of a self-fulfilling prophecy, and to get the ball rolling (or, I suppose, balls), I have pulled together the funding for an Untitled Hardcore Zombie Project, to be shot in LA in August, and starring one of the biggest names in the adult entertainment industry, Francois Sagat and other wellknown stars. The Zombie FX will be created by LA-based FX whiz Joe Castro. The project will combine also the production efforts of such companies as Wurstfilm, Dark Alley Media and PPV Network and individuals like Amo Roca, Photographer and James Carman, my long companion as a Director of Photography. So get ready for a revolutionary zombie porn extravaganza! -Bruce LaBruce
