Rob Rotten’s Porn of the Dead (2006) features five hardcore sexual scenarios of approximately 20 minutes in length, and each featuring a different combination of zombie/human sexual union: zombie girl with human guy, zombie guy with human girl, three zombie guys on one human girl, a male morgue attendant (played by Rotten himself) performing necrophiliac acts on a female human cadaver (who wakes up), and a dead female mental hospital patient is further abused by a male attendant, but she resurrects and (after his money shot) disembowels the creep. Within the context of the feature length hardcore film, each scenario is independent and unrelated to the other segments; this differs from the feature pornographic film, which has some kind of plotline running throughout. What links any of these sequences together is the inclusion of some kind of zombie presence. While the zombie apocalypse in this film is never explained, the zombies just are, as Steven Jones has argued, zombie pornography is a logical extension of the adult film industry where the performers are objectified dead meat.
While Porn of the Dead says little in the way cultural criticism, there is performative dimension to the film beyond the sex acts themselves. In the first sequence, for example, the couple perform on plastic sheeting, presumably to not mark up the factory floor where they are shooting. In each of the performance sequences, at some point, the zombie makeup (which is entirely surface level, not complicated appliances or latex masks) rubs off in key places: her breasts and between her legs, around her mouth, on his penis and backside. Both the plastic sheeting and make up work with the zombie fantasy in that the artifice is foregrounded as play and make-believe. The sequences attempt little verisimilitude with what a sexual encounter with a zombie might entail[i]. That being said, both the first and final sequences conclude with at least a vague nod to the façade: in the last sequences, as I already noted, the asylum attendant is disembowelled by the zombie patient, and in the first sequence, the human male is emasculated by the zombie after fallaciating him. Although why you’d put your man-parts that close to a zombie’s mouth is beyond me.
[i] Films like Deadgirl probably play with this verisimilitude more.
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