Bruce LaBruce's ultra-queer arthouse zombie flick has some novel ideas, but they don't all come together by the time the credits roll.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2020

Otto is by turns hilarious and jaw-dropping.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2020

What is most impressive about Otto, is its potential appeal to a wide range of audiences.

| May 29, 2020

Zombies don't ever take bubble baths, not even gay zombies.

| Aug 16, 2011

Its metaphorical examination of the plight of queer zombies in Germany is readymade for former LaBruce fans. Get ready for copulation with a hole in the stomach and such memorable quotes as "I was a zombie with an identity crisis."

| Jul 29, 2011

Concessions to the audience's expectations certainly make Otto a more palatable viewing experience, but they also make it seem less dangerous.

| Original Score: 40/100 | Feb 15, 2009

Sadly, this is one of those moments where I have to scan my reviewer's list of dismissive nouns to come up with the perfect word to describe this mess. Ah, yes, here it is: claptrap.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 11, 2009

Moviegoers with a LaBruce fetish will appreciate another imaginative offering from the filmmaker. Mainstream audiences should stay far, far away.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 16, 2009

Otto deliriously intermingles sex and entrails but is also imaginative and witty

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 5, 2008

LaBruce's film is such a riot of conflicting information and signifying styles that inner logic never really gets a grip.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 5, 2008

Some have described this as more cohesive than most Bruce La Bruce movies, but it's still sophomoric junk.

| Nov 10, 2008

LaBruce devotees will be tickled pink; others will be perplexed and/or disgusted.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 7, 2008

One of the more disciplined entries in the LaBruce oeuvre, Otto is sexy and silly in just the right proportions, a cult item with a real heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 7, 2008

Campy but not comical, reactionary but not very clever, LaBruce's film is best saved for those tickled by the sight of homo-zombie orgies or the hardcore penetration of an open wound.

| Nov 5, 2008

For a movie with this many ideological loose ends, Otto comes up with a convincingly sweet resolution.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 2, 2008

Veers between raw zombie cuisine, raw gay porn, high calorie sex that includes entrails-devouring as foreplay, and cranky anti-establishment rants against advanced capitalism. Not to mention that it's hard out there for a zombie too.

| Nov 1, 2008

When the viscera and seminal fluids are cleared away, there is something less flagrant but more durable resembling a beating heart inside this bloody stump of a movie -- a coded message to do with loneliness and loss.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 31, 2008

A genuinely touching horror-porn movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2008

Canadian queer-cinema provocateur Bruce LaBruce continues his trademark blend of sexual explicitness and shoddy technique with his numbing necro-porno, Otto; or, Up With Dead People.

| Jan 28, 2008