The title says it all; ZOMBIE STRIPPERS. It’s obviously a B-movie filled with porn stars who wish to become real actresses, but don’t realize the only work they will ever get is in horror film such as this one. However, this is a one of those b-movies that actually has very good production value. With a title like ZOMBIE STRIPPERS you’d think a studio like Seduction Cinema or Shock-o-Rama would of been behind this. But nonetheless it’s not the small studios behind the distribution of this picture, but rather Sony. Still despite it’s comedic nature and decent production value it’s still a film with a title that won’t suit everyone. But on the other hand it is a fun movie.
ZOMBIE STRIPPERS begins with a group of shoulders who are in a lab where they are learning to control a hoard of zombies created by the military to use during war to reanimate dead shoulders on the battlefield. When one of the shoulders is bitten during the round up, he escapes the facility after watching his fellow shoulders kill a scientist who was bitten. He makes his way to an underground stripe joint where he begins to transform into a zombie. Why there, he attacks and bites a stripper named Kat (Jenna Jameson) although her boss Ian (Robert Englund) thinks she’s dead, she soon comes back to life and goes out on stage and puts on one hell of a show for his customers. But when she starts to eat them, things begin to become a problem. Still that won’t stop Ian from realizing how much money he is making by having her and the other girls perform, no matter who they kill, eat or turn into a zombie in the process. As long as the money keeps coming in and the girls perform to out stripe one another; that’s all that seems to matter. Unless things start to get out of hand that is…
I must admit for a film called ZOMBIE STRIPPERS the script was not half bad. I’m not going to sit here and say it was a masterpiece, but it did have some backbone and did bring in some politics and background story into the mix. It could of been just another stupid script with a zombie walks into a stripe joint and turns everyone in the bar into zombies, and yes it is one of those films, but it did so with a well developed storyline to get to that ridiculous b-movie point. The script does have some underdeveloped characters, maybe the problem is that there are two many good characters in the film, that it’s hard to develop them all into likable ones, and the dialogue is corny, but it is one of those ideas that is meant to be more fun than it is serious.
The acting in the movie is kind of bad. When I say bad I mean in what we expect good acting to be way. This is a movie where the real dramatic acting goes out the window and anything goes, and it shows. Almost all the performances are generic to the characters the actors are playing. Everyone is overacting and stressing their lines and so on. The only actors I can say does stand out with a heart beat of a decent performance is Robert Englund. But for what it’s worth, Jenna Jameson was great in the film as well, but hardly had any lines; but the scenes in which she did, she was not half bad.
Most b-movie titles usually have very poor production value, but this is not your typical b-movie as it did have a decent budget of some kind. It has a campy like film style, but is over produced to at least look good. The film is edited very well, and the zombie effects and gore look pretty decent. Pretty much the production looks decent from beginning to end with some very slight disabilities that pretty much go unnoticed.
Overall, I can’t say I was a big fan of this movie, but it did make it’s point to include some kind of social issues within it’s ridiculous context. Sure there is plenty of zombie nudity, maybe a little bit to much for some people. It’s not a movie your going to want to sit down and watch with your girlfriend assuming the majority of people who will probably rent or buy this film have one. But none the less it’s an alright movie, with a very fun plot that takes from movies like FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, DAY OF THE DEAD and the obvious NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, except just add a bunch of porn star actors in a zombie film.
– Horror Bob
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