Zombie Strippers!

OK the title says it all, but don't be fooled this movie has a lot going for it. The writing is crisp (the Mexican American jokes in particular) and the actors clearly get the idea that it's supposed to be funny and schlocky. I think most viewers and reviewers will miss the commentary on strip clubs and the objectification of women here. Yes Zombie Strippers has a message!

The FX and makeup are outstanding and of course over the top.

This is not a rip off or a copy (any more than any other zombie movie is)and I found it funnier than Shawn of The Dead and at least as funny (if not more) as Return of The Living Dead.

Kudos to Jenna for poking fun at herself and her profession.

BTW the audience at the screening LOVED IT.

I thought of giving it a higher mark because the moments that work do work extremely well. Problem is is that sometimes it's hard to tell why we are laughing. One moment it seems like the filmmaker is not in on the joke but then along come moments so blatantly outrageous with cues (such as music or the way something is framed) that make one thing the filmmaker is aware of the tone of a scene and how the acting and the comedy and the horror, etc. are working. In any case the shifts in tone were a little hard to get used to. The gore is sometimes very delicious and creative with attention paid to fans of organic gore. Sometimes it looks plain old cheesy, bad CGI style gore. The acting is overall good, even when over the top. However for my taste no matter how aware they were of their own "bad" performances I think the movie could have benefited from a lot less "Look at my bad performance wink wink" acting and more of the playing-it-straight acting (believe it or not Jenna Jameson is one of the more successful at keeping this in mind). Robert Englund strikes just the right balance between over-the-top and playing it straight, he stops shy of taking it too far. O yea and although not really partial in that hormonal way to T & A I must admit what the movie offers is sure to please. The dancing is fun to watch in the first section and bizarre and hilarious in the second (I refuse to spoil).

It's a zombie flick performed by porn actors. What were you expecting? As porn horror goes, I think that this is the best that you can hope for. Lots of carnage and boobies. Hey, that's an element for success. I was actually quite impressed that they could pull this off for just one million dollars.

You can't expect anything more from big boobs with guns, but on that score, this movie really rates. It's cheap and campy, and does nothing to further the human condition, but it doesn't try to. It's real porn stars acting like zombies. That rates in my book (not that I've ever seen any porn movies).

If you're looking for depth, look elsewhere. But if you're looking for heaving breasts bouncing to rhythmic automatic weapons fire, this is your flick.

Unfortunately, Robert Englund shows that he has no acting chops here.

Zombie Strippers (2008) is currently available on Tubi. The storyline follows a shady strip club (are there any other kind) and tells the tale of an outbreak that turns the strippers into zombies. Somehow this ends up being good for business and drives the strip club attendance up. The zombie strippers get more stage time than the human strippers leading to a divide among the strippers. Can the owner of the strip club prevent a civil war between strippers and keep the cash flowing?

This movie is directed by Jay Lee (Alyce Kills) and stars Jenna Jameson (Private Parts), Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Roxy Saint (Death in the Desert), Whitney Anderson (Rusty) and Penny Vital (Necrosis).

This is a wild movie. The opening narration is crazy. I'll never know how they got Robert Englund in this but he's hilarious and one of the better parts of the zombie. The highlight of this picture is a Jenna Jamison blood soaked strip tease; although, I will say the kill scenes and gore are really good. This does have a made for TV feel to it with awful concepts, acting and dialogue. There's a stripper stage fight in this that's awful and entertaining at the same time. 😂 There's bad CGI in here too...but I've seen worse.

Overall, this movie is terrible...but you still have to watch it. I would score this a 3.5/10 and recommend seeing it once.

In a near future, President George Bush has been just elected for the fourth time with his vice Arnold Schwarzenegger and the USA is in war against many nations, among them Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, France and Alaska. In order to compensate the loss of soldiers, the government is researching a virus to reanimate the dead tissue of deceased soldiers and reactivate their brains, to form a powerful army of undead. When the experiment goes wrong and gets out of control in a facility in Sartre, Nebraska, the efficient Z Squad is summoned to destroy the zombies. However, the soldier Byrdflough (Zak Kilberg) is bitten by a zombie and afraid of being killed, he escapes to the underground Brademus strip-club owned by the greedy Ianna Esco (Robert Englund). Byrdflough bites the star Kat (Jenna Jameson) and the stripper spreads the virus, turning her colleagues into zombies and eating the flesh of their clients.

I am a big fan of zombie movies, and "Zombie Strippers!" is an underrated B-movie with potential of cult-movie. The predictable story is very similar to "Planet Terror" and other movies of zombies, i.e., a military experiment that accidentally releases a deadly virus that transforms people into zombies, but the joke in the beginning with President Bush is unique. Further, there are many sexy strippers, black humor, hilarious lines and situations and great special effects and Gothic music score, and this gore film is very entertaining. I am not familiar with adult movies, but the sexy Jenna Jameson is a porn-star from this industry. Jennifer Holland is also extremely gorgeous and sexy and I liked this movie a lot. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "As Strippers Zumbis" ("The Zombie Strippers")

Note: On 20 February 2016, I saw this film again.

Note: On 29 September 2020, I saw this film again.