Zombie Strippers!
April. 18,2008 RIn the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie Strippers" the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new "fad" even if it means there's no turning back.
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Very best movie i ever watch
Excellent adaptation.
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
A military unit made up of some goofy guys and pretty girls is called to a research lab. There the scientists have created zombies. The unit is told some zombies are lose and they can be killed with a shot to the head or when zapped by electricity. They go after the zombies and realize that the electric gun doesn't work all that well and some are bitten. Those that are have to be executed. When one of the bitten military guys sees that, he escapes and ends up in a strip bar.We meet the strippers, the boss, the lady in charge of the strippers, the dj, the janitor, the security guard. At first we deal mostly with stripper drama- the rivalry between two strippers, the angry goth stripper, the new virginal and religious stripper who's there to make money to help her sick grandmother against her boyfriends wishes, and others. The boss is played by Englund and he's all about the money. When the military guy turned zombie bites the star stripper, business goes on as usual. Not only that, but the customers for some reason go wild over zombie strippers. She starts attacking customers, and other strippers volunteer to be turned into zombies as well. Eventually all hell breaks lose. Then at the end we learn a bit more about the research project.Zombie Strippers as one would expect is campy, silly, at times dumb, but at other times the script show signs of intelligence. There are plenty of philosophical references (Nietzsche, Blavatsky, Camus, ontology, existentialist, fatalism, optimism, and more) and also philosophical musings about life and its meaning. These aren't dumb people making a dumb movie, but smart people who saw an opportunity to inject some brains into it what would otherwise have been a braindead movie. The movie is also very political. As a horror movie, zombie strippers is actually pretty good, it doesn't have a lot of gore but when it does, it's very good. It combines both physical and CGI gore and both are good, of course physical effects are much better. The strip club is among the worst settings for a movie, few movies manage to convey the supposed titillation of strip clubs. But Zombie Strippers does actually have some pretty decent strip acts. Some of them are in zombie make up, which is a bit odd, but even under makeup and contact lenses the beauty of the women comes through. The female cast is very good- from the military girls to pretty much every stripper, they are attractive girls, unfortunately not all of them strip. A shame in the case of the lovely Whitney Anderson.Zombie Strippers would have been better had it taken itself more seriously. Too many actors are playing for it laughs here, even though their character's life is at stake. It should be possible to make a good, serious, and smart B movie, even horror movie, that doesn't feel it has to be funny or silly to find an audience.
ZOMBIE STRIPPERS! is a film that sees strippers turning into zombies. There's no more plotting to it than that, and it turns out to be an absolutely terrible Z-grade movie in every respect: bad acting, bad directing, no discernible storyline, awful effects and terrible, plasticated women.I was hoping for an energetic romp along the lines of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, but the only thought process that seems to have gone into this film is to combine zombies and strippers. The first half of the movie is taken up with repetitive stripping scenes and the second half is made up of repetitive kill scenes.There's no middle ground, no interest or attempts at characterisation. We're treated to an acutely embarrassed Robert Englund who alternates between slumming it and hamming it, and once-upon-a-porn-star Jemma Jameson who looks far more frightening at the film's outset than she does when she turns into a zombie later on! At times the whole production seems to be an advert for breast augmentation surgery because there's absolutely nothing to it other than that. It's pitiful, truly pitiful, with painful acting and zombie effects and an inane stupidity to the script.
Yet another low-budget movie that tries to take a zombie theme and make a comedy out of it. And once again the attempt fails. Nothing new here. In this instance we find that the government has a (supposedly "fail-safe") chemical lab in Satre, Nebraska, which has created a toxin that creates zombies. A special army company is called upon to exterminate them but a soldier (played by Zak Kilberg) is bitten and rather than being killed by his own team escapes to a nearby illegal strip club. Once inside he dies and changes into a zombie, whereupon he bites one of the strippers (Kat) played by Jenna Jameson. She then changes into a zombie and performs an electrifying strip-tease which results in wild applause by the audience. Soon most of the strippers want to become zombies in order to excite the spectators as well. The club manager (played by Robert Englund of "Nightmare on Elm Street" fame) encourages all of this because he starts making money hand over fist due to increased customer demand. But as the zombies multiply things get out of control and the special army task force moves in to contain the situation. So much for the plot. As for the movie it can be broken down into three parts. The first third of the film was humorous and I enjoyed it. The soldiers played their parts well and the dancers had some good scenes too. I especially liked the part of the local hometown girl (played by Jennifer Holland). The second stage, starting when Kat was bitten, got really weird and was not funny at all. It was at this point that the wheels began to come off. And then it got even worse. The third part, beginning when Kat and her main rival Jeannie (played by Shamron Moore) began to fight was just plain awful. So much so that it completely ruined the movie. As a result I have to give this movie the lowest rating possible. The simple fact is that the director (Jay Lee) had the talent necessary to make a decent film. All he needed to do was write an average script and use a little imagination. He clearly wasn't up to the task.
I loved this movie. This came out on DVD just as I finished reading the play 'Rhinoceros' for a class. Let me tell you, this is not "supposedly" or "allegedly" based on this play, it is FOR SURE based on this play, and it has to be one of the most bad-ass adaptations I ever did see. It is indisputable that Jay Lee (writer, director) knew what he was doing when he adapted the smart and absurd play about Nazism taking over French townspeople like a flu, and that's part of what makes this movie so great! There are layers of social commentary in this movie and maybe they are not as poignant as they were in Europe 50 years ago, but nobody was shooting golf balls out of vagina's back then so it all works out. When I brought this up to my class (how could I not share this gem of a coincidence?), it raised some eyebrows and lowbrow laughs and then a week later this guy a couple seats away attested to it even stronger than I did. THE POINT OF THIS REVIEW IS TO GET YOU TO READ 'RHINOCEROS' BY EUGENE IONESCO (it's only like 90 pages) AND THEN WATCH 'ZOMBIE STRIPPERS!' AGAIN!. IT WILL SHED A WHOLE NEW MEANINGFUL LIGHT ONTO THIS INSANELY FUNNY AND (despite that all I've been saying is that this is an adaptation of something else) ORIGINAL MOVIE.