Stripperland

There's very little to be gained from parodying a film that was essentially a parody in the first place, which is why Stripperland, a pitiful, cheap-assed send up of Zombieland, screams blatant cash-in rather than inventive spoof.

Strip away (pun intended) the dumb gimmick of a world over-run by all-female, sluttily dressed undead, and this IS Zombieland, minus the budget, the decent cast, the cool effects, the witty script, the amusing star cameo, and anything else you can think of that made that particular film such a blast.

What little genuine originality director Sean Skelding does bring to the table is imbecilic in the extreme, and includes such excruciatingly bad ideas as Linnea Quigley leading an army of OAP zombie killers, Thom Bray as a mad doctor intent of turning the zombies into obedient 'retro-wives', and Daniel Baldwin as rapper Double D performing to a crowd of scantily clad, dancing corpses in order to keep them from eating him!

The film's only saving graces are hotties Maren McGuire and Ileana Herrin as sisters Virginia and West, both of whom look great in next to nothing (shame then that for most of the film they remain completely clothed!) plus some enthusiastic old-school splatter (shame also then that the film relies so heavily on crap CGI for many of its effects!).

I should say that I absolutely hated the dumb-beyond-belief ZOMBIELAND, so this ZOMBIELAND spoof had little chance of appealing to me. Having watched it, I'm absolutely gobsmacked at how this gets away with being a scene-for-scene copy of that film, merely replacing zombies with zombie strippers but otherwise keeping everything exactly the same.

Does this film exist in some kind of weird limbo where copyright laws no longer apply? Or is it so cheap and so amateurish that the studio behind ZOMBIELAND just didn't bother filing a lawsuit? Whatever the reason, it will remain a mystery for me, and it doesn't change the fact that this is an awful mess of a film. Derivative, unfunny, with bad acting and worse special effects.

The best STRIPPERLAND can manage is to string together a series of cheesy cameos by various figures like Daniel Baldwin (a new low for the actor), Linnea Quigley, and Lloyd Kaufman. I was particularly put off by the quality of the actresses playing the zombie strippers; they make the starlets of ZOMBIE STRIPPERS! look like professionals by comparison. Anyway, STRIPPERLAND is hands down the most derivative film I've ever seen, and viewers should shun this homemade film in their droves.

Thank you very much - and I say this because this is based on Zombieland - and that is not just losely. Yes so the zombies here are female strippers. Sexist you say? No they talk about it in the movie in a very boring dialog scene, so it is all good.

Now I hope you got the sarcasm, but if not the rating should tell you how I really feel. This was really boring and while I acknowledge this is a low budget movie, the CGI is quite ok. It is painfully obvious, but you shouldn't expect any different. Lloyd Kaufman, whom I really like has a cameo that is not worthy of his comedic talent - and the movie overall is the same ... unfortunately

I'm all for a good parody but this one is just terrible the punchlines seem obvious. Maybe it could've been saved a little bit of star power (unless you count Daniel Baldwin yawn) but this movie really has none. It also makes no sense to make fun of a movie that was making fun of zombie movies in the first place that seems a waste of time. I'd rather watch zombie strippers which is much more funnier than this and had a funnier ideas at least and star power.

Stripperland (2011) is a Zombieland parody that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a virus that's turns women into strippers and eventually into zombies. A group of survivors band together to find other survivors and resources in hopes of not getting turned into zombie food.

This movie is directed by Sean Skelding (I Am Virgin) and stars Linnea Quigley (Night of the Demons), Daniel Baldwin (Vampires), Maren McGuire (Damaged Goods), Boyd Banks (Dawn of the Dead), Lloyd Kaufman (The Final Countdown) and Thom Bray (Prince of Darkness).

I will give the production team credit for finding a narrator and actor that closely resembled and sounded like Jesse Eisenberg from Zombieland...and he was even more annoying. The kills in this, especially the tearing flesh, was well executed. The gore and blood splatter really isn't bad. The Baldwin music video was awful and painful to watch. The guy they picked to play Woody wasn't it. The soundtrack also isn't bad. Oh, and there isn't much nudity in this that you may expect based on the title.

Overall, this isn't the worst parody you'll ever see. I would score this a 4/10 but still recommend seeing it once.