Thursday, May 08, 2008

The Blood & Bath Movie Review 2008

Zombie Strippers (2008, USA)

Directed by Jay Lee

Well just when you thought that the genre of the zombie movie had covered everything possible, along comes this little piece of work. If you thought the movie Redneck Zombies was the worst thing that could happen with a zombie movie – you were wrong, very wrong.

I can honestly say that this is unquestionably one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, and yet it still has its appeal. This movie starts out with the usual zombie outbreak; the special military unit is called in to take care of it; one of them gets bitten by a zombie, and when he sees that the only cure for a zombie bite is a bullet through the brain he decides to go AWOL and somehow winds up in the local strip club.

If you’ve ever spent any amount of quality time in a strip club, whether it be as a patron or employee, then you’re familiar with all the stereotypical politics and competition between strippers. Well it’s not long before the guy that got the zombie bite turns into a zombie himself and bites a stripper. Here’s where things get interesting. Instead of becoming slowed down and clumsy like zombies are usually prone to do, the zombie stripper is suddenly the shining star on stage, and of course the customers don’t even mind that she has a hole chewed out of her throat and she’s covered with blood.

Well one by one all of the other strippers get jealous of the zombie stripper getting all the applause and tips, so they decide to become zombies as well. Yeah, that about covers it. As bad as this movie is it still has everything: Over the top bad acting and lots and lots of boobs, blood and gore. Zombie Strippers is sort of like a Troma movie with a slightly bigger budget. Starring Robert Englund as the strip club owner, who doesn’t mind that the strippers are all becoming zombies and turning all the customers into zombies because business has never been better; and porn superstar Jenna Jameson as, what else? – A stripper.

What really makes this movie work is that it is, in fact, a mere parody of zombie movies, and it doesn’t try to be anything more than that. With that in mind there are actually quite a few humorous moments throughout the movie.

If you like low budget zombie movies with really bad acting and lots of artificial breast implants, combined with copious amounts of cheap blood and gore, then this is the movie for you. And if you’re looking for a movie that has a nice normal Christian-value love story to it, well for some odd reason that I never figured out, this movie has that too.

Rating from 1 to 10: 6

Tracy (Never Had A Nickname) McCall
Head Writer, Singer, Song Writer,
And Attorney at Log
Paulie Family Productions