Americans are taught from an early age that Canadians are boringly nice Celine Dion fans and Australians are liberated hippie mer-people. Kids, the stereotypes are false! According to Reuters, the Australian Film Classification Board has banned the Canadian film L.A. Zombie from the Melbourne International Film Festival for the simple crime of featuring, quote, “alien zombies scouring Los Angeles for dead bodies and gay sex.” Prudes!
The film’s director, Bruce LaBruce, defends L.A. Zombie as “a movie that reaffirms life.” And how! According to the press kit available at the L.A. Zombie website, the film follows a blue-skinned alien zombie creature who wanders around Los Angeles, finding corpses from across the socioeconomic spectrum: “a white collar criminal, a gangbanger, a homeless junkie, a group of drug-addicted porn stars.” He resurrects all the dead men by – I’m sensing this is where the Aussies’ brains exploded – having sex with them. Of course, this might all just be the schizophrenic delusions of a buff homeless man. Also, L.A. Zombie will be released as both a softcore independent film and a hardcore porno.
What’s so weird about that? (See the NSFW trailer here.)
Dude – I am eating lunch! Can one not surf the internet during lunch anymore?
The whole gay zombie porn in the article title should have been enough of a warning.
But to be fair, it’s REALLY hard not to click on something that says “gay zombie porn”. I, for one, didn’t know the picture was going to be THAT gross!
The picture is on the Popwatch blog so it is unavoidable. I guess I can just stop coming here.
Yes, that probably would be best for all of us, Pam. Thanks.
Totally agree with Karate Pants. what I find most offensive is that I like my gay porn filled with men doing their best to appear super attractive….this totally F**ks with that.
$10 says someone in Hollywood will remake it into three movie trilogy. Sam Raimi is probably already attached to direct.
This sounded fun until I realized it was made by Bruce LaBruce.
If you’ve watched the trailer, you’ll quickly realize the Aussies are better off.
Speaking as a Canadian, I am not surprised. Despite our reputation, we’ve got some pretty freaky people up here.
Bruce LaBruce?
I think Nimrod Antal has some competition for “Director’s Name Most Likely to Make Me Giggle.”
I didn’t even believe Uwe Boll was a real name at first.
For what it’s worth, Boll was the previous holder of the title before Nimrod came along.
Nimrod is a common Israeli name…as is Moran (pronounced “moron”). I admit that they are giggle-worthy though.
I realize that…but thank you for also understanding that it makes me giggle nonetheless. (Because I’m 12 years old, apparently.)
If my mother had truly loved me, she would have named me Bruce LaBruce
That picture makes me gag. This is supposed to be a LUNCHTIME poll. When is Annie coming back?? (sob)
You should see him without all the makeup. He’s a huge (ahem) gay porn star named François Sagat. And still gag-worthy.
Gag-worthy in what way? LOL
LOL! Well, in addition to that… he has a scalp tattoo. Of a hair piece. I am not even kidding.
Ohhh…I looked him up. The hair tattoo is certainly regrettable – and the notches! I don’t know what year he chose to do this, but I’d have to guess he walked into the tattoo parlor wearing backwards, oversized clothes and carrying a boombox on his shoulder.
nordnard-
Once again, you’ve shown that your knowledge of foreign, gay porn stars with unfortunate tattoos is second to none.
I wonder if he goes to the same tattooist as Bombshell McGee, Douchey Regret Tattoo at Melrose and La Brea.
Oh, I love you both so much. Thanks for making me the office weirdo who laughs alone in her cube.
LOL Ceballos! I have a lot of free time… and an extremely large hard drive.
“extremely large hard drive” Hey-o!
In a porn article, suddenly everything sounds dirty.
Seriously. I’m eating lunch here!
I saw Bruce’s previous film “Otto; Or Up With Dead People” at Sundance in 08 not knowing what I was getting into, and it’s not the controversial gay zombie porn that makes it a terrible film, it’s the terrible filmmaking that makes it a terrible film. Thrusting into an open flesh wound aside, English was a second language to most of the actors so their dialogue delivery was horrendous, almost embarrassing to watch, it was filled with obnoxious sounds (crying babies, howling cats) and colors (eye burning pink was a popular one) whenever the film is seen from Otto’s eyes, and I get what it was trying to do, it just didn’t do it well. So this new one “L.A. Zombie” will probably be just as craptastic.
“Thrusting into an open flesh wound”?? Argghhh!! And yes, the picture accompanying this article is gross.
No need to bother with all the silly and pointless Oscar nominations and campaigns…just give all the Oscars to this masterpiece and call it a day!
look at the wikipedia of our “star” for a good laugh. ah…gotta love the internets.
Really, Darren? You don’t understand why necrophilia – as is depicted in this video – is disturbing? Really?
you had me at Francois Sagat!
It seems to me that it is a metaphor for the AIDS pandemic.
Australia is a backwater. Canada is a thousand times more interesting.