Bruce LaBruce may not have made the first gay zombie film, but he’s
certainly made the most substantial one. Built around the life and
memories of the titular alterna-zombie, Otto; or, Up with
Dead People is a compelling mishmash of zombie drama, art-house
pretension, queer theory, AIDS allegory, vegetarian treatise,
hardcore porn, faux documentary, and a good, old-fashioned
homosexual blood feast. It’s insanely inventive and, for the
most part, it works. (Director scheduled to attend.) (Egyptian
Theatre, 801 E Pine St, www.thestranger.com/siff.
Midnight, $8.)

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...