Talk us through itA top secret government lab has been working diligently to create a reanimation drug to make U.S. soldiers unkillable. The drug reanimates their cells and decreases their human nature with regard to things like compassion or sadness. Essentially it makes them indestructible killing machines. Of course, the formula is "leaked" and infects several scientists, turning them into zombies. An elite force of U.S. military personal, sort of like a G.I. A-Team, is called in to kill the zombies. Only, one of them gets bitten during the operation and slinks off to avoid being found out. The bitten soldier crawls into a strip club and viscously attacks a stripper (Jenna Jameson), rendering her into a zombie as well. A funny thing happens to these strippers, they don't just go on a killing rampage; they become awesome undead mega strippers first! Then they, you know, eat the patrons. When things get out of hand, our crack squad of G.I. zombie hunters show up to put the smack down.
Review"You have to be a warrior. A soldier. Fearless. Uninhibited. A stripper with a take-no-prisoners, raw, survival instinct." - KatGuest Reviewer Brenda Hineman is a horror movie aficionado. When she's not watching zombies and slashers, she writes about Halloween costumes at StarCostumes.com. With the top billing going to Jenna Jameson and Robert Englund, you know you are going to get a very campy, kitschy movie. And that's sort of the point of a movie called Zombie Strippers, isn't it? That it is a Sony film is a little surprising as this is definitely a low-budget film with most scenes taking place in just two buildings, minimal special effects and makeup work. For his part, Englund, who plays the strip club owner, steals the show. His combination of immature cattiness and sleazeball money-grubbing makes him a very narrow character, but Englund plays it well. He overacts in the right places to get the gags, and his facial expressions are second to none. Jenna Jameson is, well, Jenna Jameson. She is who she is in every movie. And while she wears more clothes in this movie than in most of her movies, her acting skills aren't stretched very much here. And I'm not sure they need to be, as Zombie Strippers has no false aspirations to be Gone With The Wind. 
The real story with Zombie Strippers is the writing, and all the peculiarities with it. Sure, everybody loves zombies. And everyone loves strippers. Bringing the two together seemed only natural. The nudity, gore, and gags would be enough to satisfy expectations. There is a weird philosophical undertone in the movie, however, as strippers debate principles of existentialism and fatalism with each other and in their own lives. Jameson is even reading and quoting Nietzsche. Seriously, why even bother? If this movie is guilty of anything, it's not over-acting, it's over-writing. Because the movie was both written and directed by the same person, Jay Lee Paul, it lacked a certain ojectivity that comes from having a seperate director. While you'd think that a movie called Zombie Strippers would be un-screw-up-able, Paul's closeness to it seems to be the biggest downside to an otherwise enjoyable (for all the wrong reasons) flick.
Summary ExecutionAll in all, Zombie Strippers was a "not bad" movie that could've been much better by leaving things out rather than adding them - the old "addition by subtraction" model of good editing in both script and film certainly applies here.Let's face it, zombies are hot right now. They are in books, in more movies, on tee shirts, and so on. Zombies are becoming what pirates were a couple of years ago, so the timing of movies such as this one couldn't be better. And when they are naked zombies that look like porn-stars, all the ingredients are there. Still, it comes up short. If you are zombie fanatic, or a Jenna Jameson fanatic, it will be worth having this one in your collection. Otherwise, dropping a buck or two at your local video store for it would be a better choice. There are certainly worse ways to kill a Saturday night.
ScaryMinds Rates this movie as ... The filmography, special effects, and Englund's acting are right on. Still, it's not enough to overcome some really bad
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