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bloody-disgusting.com - 1/21/2008

Sundance 08 Reviews: 'Otto' and 'Funny Games' - BLOODY

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Last night I caught the first hour of Bruce LaBruce's OTTO, which I was extremely excited for. I knew it was a gay zombie film, so I definitely thought I knew what I was getting into (especially with the image of the guy f-cking a corpse), but what I saw was incomprehensible and quite terrible, in my opinion. Since I didn't stick it out until the end I didnt feel like I should be writing a ...

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