LaBruce Takes on Zombie Porn

LaBruce has been working back and forth, blurring boundaries for years, following the success of such films as Hustler White and The Raspberry Reich, independent films with an art-house and festival appeal that nonetheless brought the sometimes gory underside of sex to the screen. He recently completed a new script called Gerontophilia, about the fetish of having sex with the elderly, he tells me with a smile. In his last non-pornographic film, Otto; or, Up With Dead People, also about a gay zombie, LaBruce was equating graphic sexuality, including one zombie literally penetrating the entrails of his lover/prey, with the deadened feeling he was getting from young people, as he told me at Sundance when the film premiered in 2008. I get the impression that although L.A. Zombie is being produced with porn distributor Dark Alley, LaBruce has no less vested interest in making some sort of artistic statement about society.