Line #12 Film/OttoOrUpWithDeadPeople


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Eating Roadkill to survive]]
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4	''Otto''; or ''Up With Dead People'' is a 2008 independent film directed by Creator/BruceLaBruce, with the acting talents of Marcel Schlutt, Katharina Klewinghaus and introducing Jey Crisfar as Otto. The movie tells the story of a handsome teenage zombie that awakes from the dead and roams the city trying to make a living.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* BuryYourGays: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Many gay characters die, both before and during the film...but as it's a zombie film, death doesn't mean they're out of the story.
8	* ButNotTooGay / HideYourLesbians: [[AvertedTrope Averted:]] the film features explicit gay and lesbian content
9	* CuteMonsterGirl: Otto is a rare male example.
10	* FauxlosophicalNarration: Medea provides such speeches in her movies.
11	* LeFilmArtistique:
12	** The [[ShowWithinAShow films that Medea Yarn directs]] are straight examples.
13	** This movie features very long shots with static cam, anachronic order, creepy music, seemingly unconnected scenes and other common associated tropes.
14	* {{Gorn}}: Quite literally.
15	* LipstickLesbian: Medea Yarn and her girlfriend, Hellabent.
16	* LooksLikeCesare: Otto, though his hairstyle is rather sleek instead of shaggy, but he has the black hair, pale-white skin, dark rings under his eyes and black clothing to pull it off.
17	* ManlyGay: Most of the actors starring in Medea's movie are, Fritz is the most prominent example.
18	* MindScrew: Very much at first, but at the end everything is explained -somehow.
19	* NotUsingTheZWord: Averted, Otto refers himself as a zombie.
20	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:It's implied Otto may not actually be a zombie, but just have a mental disorder that makes him act like one. Although, he bit a guy earlier in the film who thus turned into a zombie, so...]]
21	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The zombies in the film have a conscience and keep part of their personality, but their memories of the time they were alive are blurry.
22	* PerkyGoth: Hella, but Medea has her moments
23	* PornWithPlot: As a typical LaBruce film, but with more plot than porn
24	* PrettyInMink: Medea wears a black fur coat when she meets her girlfriend.
25	* PrimaDonnaDirector: Medea.
26	* RandomEventsPlot
27	* {{Retraux}}: Hella has a weird atmosphere that makes everything around her to look like a [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]].[[SilenceIsGolden silent film]]
28	* RummageSaleReject: Otto's outfit, he is mistaken for goth in-universe, but on the internet has been classified as either punk or emo. He is dressed with skinny jeans, combat boots, a striped gray and black sweater, a white shirt, black necktie and a black hoodie.
29	* VegetarianVampire: Vegan Zombie -- Otto was vegetarian before turning zombie, and now has mixed feeling about eating meat. He survives primarily by eating roadkill, but he eats the guts of a human being in one occasion.
30	* ZombieApocalypse: The zombies in Medea's film try to invoke this for the sake of their queer-zombie revolution, but is {{Deconstructed}} quickly.
31	* ZombieGait
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