Showing posts with label Zombie Strippers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zombie Strippers. Show all posts

Sunday, 26 July 2009

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.

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Friday, 17 July 2009

I GOT IT TODAY: 8




DVD: Jekyll (BBC 2007)
I missed this 6-part series when it was shown on TV but people who did catch it told me enough to think I'd probably like it. I'm halfway through and it's terrific. I waited until I could get it for less than a fiver though.

DVD: Zombie Strippers (2008)

Another one I waited until it was really cheap -less than four quid. Just hope it's better than a similar-themed thing I saw on Zone Horror recently.

CD: Neil Young - Fork In The Road (2009)
His latest, getting good reviews and the samples on Amazon sounded interesting. Played it once and think it'll grow on me very quickly. Incidentally, I've decided that the Neil Young album I enjoy the most is the much-maligned Re.ac.tor

GRAPHIC STORY: Manhunter -Forgotten (DC 2009)
Last, and weakest, in a highly regarded but poor selling series.

GRAPHIC STORY: Asterios Polyp written/drawn by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon 2009)
Tipped as being the graphic novel of the year, it's a lengthy, clearly told, but very subtle and philosophical story that's going to take me a while and several readings to fully appreciate; but I like it.

Post Script


Don't take 'I Got It Today' literally, though it did start out like that.

I've now played the Neil Young CD a couple of more times and put it up on my Amazon marketplace list along with the Manhunter GN. I'm not sure if it's me or if he's finally lost it. I've also just sold the Archives box set for £53.86 less than two days after putting it on.

Odd coincidence here. This morning I went to pick up and pay for a packet from the parcels office which didn't have enough (actually no) postage on it (which turned out to be a DVD that had gone missing and I'd been refunded for), and a non-delivered packet for Susan's mother -the card had been laying around the house for weeks. That packet contained a box full of the super efficient lightbulbs which are sent out free to pensioners (we've got loads). The box actually turned out to be the perfect size and shape to fit the Neil Young Archives. Kismet!

Or should that be Synchronicity! Or what's that word I remembered a moment ago but have now forgotten but might resemble Catweazle!

Fades into incoherence...



















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