Going back through my Netflix history and various records, I was more than a little surprised to find but one movie listed for February, a schlocky B picture called Zombie Strippers. This seems…strange, but I can’t really argue with what the record shows. I seem to recall watching a fair amount of Venture Brothers, borrowed from a friend, around the same time, though it is possible I have my time table screwed up there.
So what is there to say about a movie that features Jenna Jameson as an evil stripper who becomes a zombie? Not much. This movie is certainly not going to win any awards for feminist enlightenment, but it’s hardly the worst movie of its kind. Moreover, it delivers on the promises made in the title. There are strippers, and there are zombies. There is some hasty setup of a military-manufactured zombie virus unleashed on an unsuspecting town, coupled with the cliche backstage drama of a naive smalltown girl trying to raise money for Granny’s operation through stripping. A zombie shows up and the zombie virus spreads via the strippers. The zombies are not entirely unconscious, and it turns out that being a zombie has a strangely erotic charge, which gives the strippers some advantage in their work. Soon, they’re all clamoring to become zombies, while the owner of the strip club works on hiding the zombie infestation from customers. Sprinkled throughout are some Philosophy 101 existential quandries, which at least show some effort on the part of the writers. The look of the film is pretty cheap, the makeup is just good enough, and there’s plenty of blood and dismemberment to satisfy zombie and gore fans. As far as cheesy horror is concerned, you could do a lot worse.
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LOL! I remember hearing about this movie,but I never watched it. Thanks for your review because it sort of confirmed what I thought it was going to be. Another awful movie that actually made the theaters for about a week this year,was “Creature.” Don’t ever watch it. It is so wack.
I think actually for b-movie schlock, there might be something to it. When you look at the rash of people who turn to all sorts to tawdry behavior to better their careers etc. that’s essentially the exaggerated point of zombie strippers. These ladies are willing to sell themselves out to be better at what they do, the question then goes back to the audience, that if we live and take part in a system that is essentially that, how can it work effectively? Of course there are a thousand other ways to get that message across…
… an awful movie? perhaps. But there is worse, you’ve got Uwe Bowle’s “in the name of the king” and the upcoming three musketeers movie to deal with if you want to be awful…