DVD: Zombie Strippers

Jenna Jameson, scary but undoubtedly sexy.

Okay, I'm not going to even attempt to convince you that this is a good film in any sense of the word because it isn't. It's one of those movies that want to have its cake and eat it and throw it up again and eat it again. Some of the actors commit the worse sin of all in a comedy-horror and that is by playing it laughs. Most of them, thankfully, are in the black ops team who appear at the beginning and the end where they firstly set up the scenario and then return to save the day.

In between and in the strip club where most of the movie is set, the actors do their limited best which is generally okay for this type of trash. It lives up to the title by providing plenty of zombie gore and lots of stripping and naked silicone flesh. The mcguffin is that the strippers retain their intelligence after being zombified and that the zombification improves their stripping and results in an increased clientele (some of whom, enticed into thinking they're going to get laid, provide munchies for the hungry girls). Retired porn star Jenna Jameson is the top stripper and first to turn and performs quite adequately in every sense of the word. Robert Englund is the greedy owner who quite happily rakes in the money at the expense of a few partially eaten and then zombified men who he locks up in the basement. Bizarrely the audience numbers increase the more the strippers' bodies start to decay. I couldn't quite see the appeal myself, but different strokes...

The writer/director pretends to give the movie some significance by having the strippers all suffering from existential angst and quoting from various philosophers. It's a con but nevertheless I found it quite a funny con.The bar is called Rhino and Englund's character is Ian Essko. Feel free to groan.

So, extreme gore, attractive naked women, laughs. What's the problem?








Post Script

A revised and slightly better version of this review is now up on Amazon.