Zombie Strippers! Movie Review
I have noticed a trend in the reviews I have read for the Zombie Strippers movie; reviewers either love this film to bits or HATE it with a passion so intense - that it is usually reserved for people who club baby seals, or those who make bad fan-fiction. These intense reactions left me wondering if the reviewers saw the same movie that I did, or if there are two copies of this movie floating around - inducing feelings of hatred or devotion in anyone interested enough to watch them. Though probably not.
For me, this film stirs a resounding emotional ‘Meh’.
However, I did enjoy watching this film because it appears that I – quite accidentally – stumbled upon the only way to watch it without feeling the need to go online and pour my disgust or admiration into an IMDB forum post.
So on the weekend, five friends and I sat down with a bottle of Vodka, Zombie Strippers - and proceeded to drink every time we saw a breast.
The Meat
Zombie Strippers delivers what it promises. If you went into the film expecting anything else apart from a movie containing zombie strippers; like: a coherent plot, good acting or a script that doesn’t feel like its written by an adolescent with an echasketch - you’re going to be sorely disappointed. It might be possible to produce a coherent script which rivals the classics AND contains stripping zombies, but I have my doubts.
The film also has one hell of a make up and computer graphics artist team; the zombies, wounds and all, look very impressive and the death scenes are particularly well done.
The Bones
The synopsis for this film is “Worldwide media sensation JENNA JAMESON and Nightmare on Elm Street’s ROBERT ENGLUND star in ZOMBIE STRIPPERS.”, notice that Jenna’s name comes first - even before the movie title… you know you’re very desperate when you’re trying to sell a film by using a porn star pornographic actress’s name like a major selling point.
This desperation really shines through when the film gets one of the actresses (I’m not going to tell you which one, but you can guess) to trot out her vagina in the first twenty minutes of the movie.
Unfortunately, it seems that Jenna gives the best acting performance of all the cast members for the entire film. Shame on you other cast members, you have been out shone by a porn-star and they are not traditionally chosen for their acting talent. I am secretly harboring the hope that these other actors were deliberately trying to act terribly so that the film would earn a place amongst the B-movie ‘so bad it’s good‘ cult classic category.
However, the truth is, no actor is going to shine with this script. This script would have made more sense if they cut it up, put it in a big hat and pulled out the order of the scenes randomly.
The Taste
When it comes right down to it, I didn’t completely hate this film: it had its funny moments, its good moments and its cringingly horrible moments.
I recommend that you see it, if only so you can say that you have - just don’t forget your friends or your vodka.
Zombie Strippers was definitely the best zombie stripper film i have ever seen.
