Zombie Strippers! (2008) User Reviews

Weltschmerz is not an acceptable zombie plan

[EMMahony · 5/10 · 11 September 2010]

"Zombie Strippers" manages a preternatural combination of theater of the absurd, hot pink lingerie, and the Smith and Wesson air soft pump action shotgun.

The ability of the 20th century's major Continental philosophies to adapt to the 3rd millennium is examined through the competing Weltanschauung of a cadre of sharply divided strippers in the American Midwest.

The characters are forced to define and own their ontology when a government manufactured zombie virus is unleashed. Yes, it may be possible to continue stripping after coming back from messy death, but is there more to life?

Ultimately, both the Nietzschean Ubermensch and Satre's existential despair are shown to be inadequate responses to the human condition, as well as to the zombie condition. In fact, a greater level of alienation then has been previously imagined is shown to be possible when a being is left severed from humanity while still sentient.

The failing Gestalt of excessively broad Panglossian optimism is laid bare, along with the entire cast. Rather than presenting a justification for self-annihilating submission to a mob which demands conformity as payment for acceptance, the protagonists must embrace individualism both qua the only reasonable way to survive and qua the innate demand of humanity.

Sacrificing the enduring emotional vitality and undeniable free will of a human life span for the illusion of release to be found in reanimation leads only to unrecoverable angst for those strippers who submit to the zombie virus.

This piece is properly read as a modern re-assessment of the lessons the Enlightenment. While a cynical view of religion's ability to define the scope and meaning of life is buttressed, we all - even a zombie in her actual death throws - must account for our choices. Infinite rebirths are not an option.

Meanwhile, fresh philosophical challenges are brought to bear in the characters of an aging Russian lap dancer and her harsh pragmatism and Paco, the illegal janitor who draws on his own cultural traditions to script a deeply personal reaction to the zombification of his co- workers.

Numerous definitions of humanity are tested: rationalism, logic, empathy - but it ultimately our ability to choose life and to find beauty in the sheer act of being alive that separates the living from the merely undead. The audience is asked to reconcile being human and being alive, having first debated if there is is a foundational schism at all.

More deep is the question hinted at and left unanswered by the film: if science, in the form of a toupe wearing lab tech who unleashes a chemo- virus that reanimates dead flesh, unleashes evil; and if the humanities, in the form of remarkably fresh looking strippers who toss off gems of epistemological wisdom between turns on the stage, are left to address the terrible question of whether to choose zombification for greater tips, where is the solution?

Believers in eleatic monism may be disappointed, but anyone who has ever wrestled with Being and Becoming will find some common themes dressed up like new with nipple tassles.

Trying to be "so bad it's good" is just bad.

[MBunge · 3/10 · 19 May 2011]

This movie is just horrendous. Now, I know what you're thinking. When you rent a film featuring porn star Jenna Jameson and titled Zombie Strippers!…how good can you really expect it to be? Well, I never really expected this thing to be any good. I had hoped that it might be one of those "so bad, it's good" movies. Instead, it overshoots "so bad, it's good" and lands in "so bad, it's really, really, really bad".

The story, which is filled with lame jokes and wrapped up in some juvenile political satire at the expense of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, starts with a squad of soldiers sent to put down a zombie outbreak at a research lab. A virus was created to reanimate corpses so they could be used to fight in war. One of the soldiers gets bitten and runs away to an illegal strip club, where he bites the lead dancer (Jenna Jameson). She becomes a zombie, which in addition to filling her with the hunger for human flesh, also makes her a much better stripper.

She bites a couple of other strippers and these undead skanks become a sensation, driving degenerate strip club patrons into such a frenzy they don't even care when a living girl gets naked on stage. That provokes jealousy and horror in some of the other strippers. However, the strip club owner (Robert Englund) just enjoys all the money he's making, though his plan to keep the strippers' zombified victims locked up in the basement turns out to be more trouble than all the money in the world. They get loose, chaos breaks out, including a zombie strip-off and an undead vagina being used in a way that I can't quite figure out how to describe.

In fairness, Zombie Strippers is trying to be an over-the-top comedy. But there's an enormous emphasis on the word "trying" in that sentence. The jokes are putrid and this crew of alleged actors has all the comedic timing of a broken metronome that's sticking out of the burst stomach of a dead pig that's been left under the hot sun all day. I've seen Holocaust movies that were funnier than this film.

This is another example of actors who can't act and a writer/director who can neither write nor direct. This bunch of losers thinks they can get around that by being intentionally awful. The whole charm of that sort of film, though, is that it's an honest and spectacularly failed attempt at making a good movie. Setting out to make a hilariously bad film is like intentionally becoming the world's fattest man. The end result is never pretty to look at.

If you're one of the three people on Earth who hasn't already seen Jenna Jameson naked, you can find it in Zombie Strippers. Be forewarned; only two other actress get nude in this thing and only one of them is attractive. There is lots and lots of blood and gore and you can see Robert Englund embarrass himself with humor too corny for even the worst Nightmare on Elm Street sequel.

If you took some of Jenna Jameson's XXX films and edited out the graphic sex, you'd probably end up with movies that were still better than Zombie Strippers. Don't even bother with this DVD.

Zombie Strippers!

[jboothmillard · 4/10 · 16 December 2008]

The title is a no-brainer, just imagine Showgirls or a Russ Meyer soft-core sexploitation/titillation meets a real George A. Romero zombie film, and then you know what to expect. Basically it is the near future, and a secret government re- animation chemical virus, made to bring dead tissue of soldiers back to life, has got out in the facility of Sartre, Nebraska. While eliminating as many zombies as possible, Major Camus (Catero Colbert) and Lieutenant Ryker (Jen Alex Gonzalez) manage to let bitten marine Byrdflough (Zak Kilberg), afraid of being killed, get away, and he ends up in a near underground strip club. Blyrdflough manages to bite star stripper Kat (porn star Jenna Jameson), but apparently women have more of a threshold, so she is turned into a zombie, of sorts, but still doing her job, being much more sexy than before, and earning much more money for greedy club owner Ian Essko (Robert Englund, aka Freddy Krueger). Obviously the affected girls that follow, along with Kat, still have a hunger for flesh, but they and Ian make sure they eat back stage, so the money can still roll in, and the zombie customers are locked up. Eventually though the success is to end when someone lets out the zombie customers, and the zombie strippers just attack anyone in the open, and the specialists do show up to help the survivors get out alive. Also starring Roxy Saint as Lillith, Penny Drake as Sox, Whitney Anderson as Gaia, Jennifer Holland as Jessy, Shamron Moore as Jeannie, Jeannette Sousa as Berengé, Carmit Levité as Madame Blavatski, John Hawkes as Davis, Jessica Custodio as Kwan, Laura Bach as Sassy Sue and Joey Medina as Paco. Englund is great at being mad, he's kind of like that in real life, and Jameson makes a reasonably good actress, most people think she is too beautiful to be a porn icon, maybe she should have gone down this route. As for the zombie stuff, the gory effects are just as over-the-top as a proper zombie flick, and the dialogue is deliberately rubbish, so you can sit back and a enjoy a good satirical comedy horror, or you can enjoy flesh eating creatures getting naked and pole dancing, I know it's not a good film, but it's worthwhile enough as a horror comedy. Okay!

Zombie strippers are included

[ametaphysicalshark · 10 May 2008]

It's hard to knock a movie like "Zombie Strippers" because it's fully aware of how audaciously stupid and ridiculous it is. It doesn't matter that it isn't high satire or even reasonably solid on a technical level because when it comes down to it, some guy sat down one day and decided to make a movie that combined two of the average drunk male's favorite things- zombies and strippers, and "Zombie Strippers" doesn't just contain zombies and stripping (actual stripping included, by the way), it goes as far as fulfilling its title and providing a horde of surprisingly sexy... you guessed it, zombie strippers.

Commenting on the quality of the direction or the quality of the script with a movie like this just isn't worth it. This movie isn't the worst ever made (that's a fact, sorry), but it is a pretty terrible movie anyway. Could this movie have actually been funny for its jokes? I don't know. Could this ever have been a quality project in the first place?

"Zombie Strippers" is a movie about zombie strippers. By nature it is going to be pretty darn stupid and pretty darn bad. Using this criteria, "Zombie Strippers" is nowhere near as awful as it could have been. I even chuckled a couple of times. The girls all look good too, Jameson being the least attractive, and to think she was the object of every North American man's desire in the 90's (don't go near plastic surgery, girls). This movie does exactly what it says on the tin, and that deserves some level of respect. Oh, the audacity.

3/10 as a movie, but I can't say it wasn't fun on some level.

There's So-Bad-Its-Good, So-Bad-Its-Bad Then There's Zombie Strippers

[bkrauser-81-311064 · 1/10 · 17 April 2012]

I saw that particularly rancid piece of gutter trash only recently and their are simply no words to describe its awfulness. I'm serious! I can go through the gambit: horrible, detestable, loathsome, revolting, abominable, inconceivable, no word exists in the English language that can accurately describe such a war crime against cinema. And I came in with no expectations. No positive ones at least. I don't know how the movie did it but it didn't even meet my exceedingly low expectations. If this movie was a food it be lutefisk with a side of brussel sprouts, if it were a real person it'd be Hitler and Stalin's love child, if it were a depth in the ocean only James Cameron would have seen it. This movie's complete polar opposite is the cure for cancer.

But I digress, let me give you a description: After a crack team of soldiers kills a laboratory full of zombies, one manages to escape. He stumbles into a strip club and infects the ladies who develop an unquenchable bloodlust...and the need to strip. Realizing that his clientele have a ludicrous attraction to bloodied and decomposing body parts, the club owner (Robert Englund) decides to keep them around seemingly unaware of the problems they'll likely cause. I kid you not that's the plot.

Co-starring Jenna Jameson and a hodge-podge of who cares, this movie fails on all levels. Now by this point some of you may be saying "awesome, this movie sounds like its so bad its good!" Let me be clear; there is so bad its good, so bad its bad, 12 feet of raw sewage and then this. I would not recommend this to my worst enemies and I absolutely do not recommend it to you. This is Ark of the Covenant type stuff; avoid with prejudice.

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Strips away only your patience and the dignity of those involved

[Simon_Says_Movies · 2/10 · 3 December 2008]

A movie such as this is always a toss up. One is certainly given enough information from the title about what to expect, and as such the result can be utter crap, or a devilishly guilt ridden B movie indulgence. I will leave my personal classification open to interpretation based upon the rest of this critique.

B movies are a quirky little niche of the movie industry, slipping past the radar and existing as poor in many aspects of traditional film-making standards, yet somehow rising to the occasion to please grinning audiences. Sometimes a movie is intended to be a B, and sometimes it happens by accident; usually in the hands of an amateur and underfunded auteur. Regardless of how a movie like Zombie strippers came to be (even though it is fairly apparent in this case) the polished result, and I use that term loosely, can be perceived in three ways. The first, is a movie that is the bonafide gold standard of schlock, the second is one that has a burning admiration for this genre and directs an homage as a salute. The final and obnoxiously common result is a film that tries desperately to exist as a B movie, but fails on every level and unfortunately, Zombie Strippers is a direct offspring of the latter.

I have stated before that I am a sucker for zombie films, but I have no such admiration for this picture; this zombie film just sucks. 2008 as a whole has shown a weak display of this genre, the best being the disappointing Diary of the Dead by legend George A. Romero. Also more notable is the more successful B movie, the Romero remake, Day of the Dead. Perhaps the largest flaw of Zombie Strippers (I assure you, there are a number) is the decision to forfeit most elements of the classic "zombie" picture. This lack of tradition is even more clear, due to the fact that it is supposed to be traditional; a homage; a throwback. I won't disclose exactly how it fails to meet these expectations, with fear of disclosing the "plot". Other issues range from the sometimes intolerable script which only occasionally descends into something gleefully tacky, the acting, while not vital to a picture of this calibre needs to be watchable, and pacing. Forgoing all else, this garbage unfolds at a snails pace (make that a crippled snail), mostly consisting of random and supposedly politically satirical humour and extended strip scenes, which lose their appeal quickly when the go-go's start to go-bad. There is some well done gore for the budget, but it is most certainly not worth your time.

Called to a chemical lab, a group of elite soldiers are shocked to discover the result of a government re-animation program; zombies. Dispatching of the threat, the virus escapes into a nearby strip-club, run by the devilish Robert Englund of Nightmare on Elm St. fame, who I am sure was full after filming, from all the scenery he had been chewing on. Among the sultry strippers is Kat, played by Jenna Jameson, whose boyfriend Jay Lee directed. The virus affects men and women differently, leaving only women with their pre-existing mental capacity, but tacking on a degrading demeanour and hunger for flesh. The catch, it appears in death that these women can strip up a storm, and soon, despite pushing a few bodies under the rug, business is booming. All is perfect for Ian (Englund) and his group of co-workers and friends, until the gals get a tad antsy and things get out of control.

Despite the possibly good intentions, Zombie Strippers is simply dreck; an overlong and ploddingly paced humourless mess and your money would be better spent on Romero's latest venture, or renting last years Grindhouse. In Zombie Strippers, the only memorable thing stripping away is your patience and the dignity of those involved.

Worst film ever?

[Enchorde · 1/10 · 14 October 2008]

Recap: America needs more soldiers. One company's solution consists of letting the dead doing the fighting. They are creating a virus that turns people into zombies. However, their experiment goes bad and a team of Marines are sent in to clean up. Unfortunately, one soldier gets infected and escapes. He escapes into a strip-club where he passes on the infection to one of the strippers who then turns into a super-stripper. Naturally the other strippers feel the competition and turns themselves into zombies as well...

Comments: I had hopes of this being a B-movie being so bad that it is funny. Sometimes those movies are outright hilarious. Unfortunately I was wrong. Dead wrong. This is far, far worse than that. In fact, contrary to what I expected, this may in fact be the worst movie I have seen. Ever. And I have seen some really bad ones.

This one actually started out being really bad and rather boring. Extremely poorly acted, bad story, bad effects. Just plain bad. And then it actually managed to get worse. A lot worse.

I strongly recommend NOT watching this. And if you just started watching it, please, turn it off. If you're real unlucky you have just seen it before reading this. I'm sorry, real sorry.

1/10 (Cannot rate it lower. Too bad.)

Unfunny, Unscary, Unsexy, A Contrived Attempt To Be Culty and a Waste of Time!

[Bill357 · 1/10 · 23 May 2009]

Zombie Strippers! starts off with the most stupidly pathetic attempt at political humor ever attempted. What possesses a filmmaker making a genre picture to purposely alienate a decent portion of his audience in the first scene of his movie with an unfunny series of heavy handed jokes that not only beat a dead horse but were almost instantly dated at the time of the film's release?

What's with the Mexican jokes and stereotypes in this movie? I thought the filmmakers were open-minded and compassionate liberals. Isn't it supposed to be the Republicans that are racist and hate Mexicans?

Of all the people I know, the type of people this movie purposely insults (right-wingers) are more likely to watch a movie called Zombie Strippers! than my left-wing friends! Mr. Jay Lee, take a trip outside of L.A. sometime and meet the rest of your audience!

The rest of the movie was even worse than the first scene with painfully unfunny jokes and even worse characters. Did the strip club patrons in the movie actually think these dead women were sexy? I know that the people who visit strip clubs aren't exactly rocket scientists but are they that stupid? I wouldn't know. I've never been to a strip club.

Apparently Robert Englund will do anything for a paycheck. What is he doing in this? He's beginning to make Gary Busy, Dennis Hopper, and Billy Zane look like they choose their projects very carefully. Mr. Englund, there's such a word as "no". People click it all the time when reading my comments!

And finally, what's up with Jenna Jameson's face these days? She used to look cute but lately she's looking a bit more plastic than she used to. Her eyes are beginning to get longer and skinnier while her lips look like she's suffering from an allergic reaction! Lay off the plastic surgery AND the crappy movies Ms. Jameson!

The title is better than the movie

[JoeB131 · 1/10 · 1 November 2008]

A movie with a title like "Zombie Strippers" would actually be kind of funny. Except for the one they actually made, which is chock full of misogyny, racism, political paranoia, pretentious speeches, absurd clichés and lots of gore.

We get a preamble of the "political background", which sounds like the kind of bizarre paranoia one can read on the DailyKos website. Essentially, Bush has turned the country into a dictatorship that has banned strip clubs and experiments with turning people into super-soldier zombies.

Well, a soldier in a zombie-hunting squad is infected and winds up in an underground strip joint with a bunch of dead behind the eyes strippers. He infects headliner stripper Kat (played with indifference by over the hill porn star Jenna Jameson) with the Zombie virus. Oddly, the patrons find decomposing zombie strippers more exciting than live girls. The other strippers let themselves get zombified. Patrons are zombified during lap dances.

The only guy in this movie who seems to be having any fun is Robert Englund, who plays the strip club owner, a hypochondriac gun nut who figures if he just puts the zombie victims into a cage in the basement...

Special Effects guys had a field day. Cheapie movies like this are really demo tapes for these guys. "See, I only had a budget of $15.00 and some bottle deposits, and look what I was able to do!"

Underrated B-Movie with Potential of Cult-Movie

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 20 June 2008]

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.

The Title Explains it All

[lisa7-934-700154 · 1/10 · 5 January 2011]

To put it bluntly, creating this movie was a waste of time, money and film. It is completely trashy, and I am glad to have returned it to its proper place in life...the garbage bin. The storyline is pathetic, the characters are silly, the acting is bad and realistically, the whole movie is terrible. I can honestly say the actors and actresses in this film must have been pretty desperate for the money to feature in a failure like this. The movie is as crazy its title and is completely unrealistic. There isn't much else to say because really this movie doesn't even deserve my time in writing a review for it, as it would just take too long to list all of its faults. If you would like to watch a movie which is actually good, go for a proper Quentin Tarantino classic, not this extremely cheap and failed attempt at one. Watch a movie as bad as this, and you will be zombified.

of course it's Bad, it's a 'B' movie!

[tonywebman · 8/10 · 6 June 2008]

This movie is suppose to be bad. It was made that way. The actors knew it was bad, the director knew it was bad, the producers knew it was bad, that's why they made it... and that's what makes it so good.

If you like 'B' movies, especially zombie 'B' movies then you should have no problems appreciating the over-the-top soft-core sex and head-exploding gore in all its glory.

All you need to know about the plot is that ex-hard-core porn star Jenn Jamison and her stripper buddies get infected by a government super virus that is suppose to make soldiers continue to be able to fight... even after they're dead. In effect, making them Super Soldiers. Well this works for the girls making them into Super Strippers, except that their dead. So their Super Zombie Strippers.

Gratuitous sex and violence, exploding heads, zombies, strippers, gore, T & A. What more could you ask for? As for those who have rated this movie so poorly... they just can't appreciate the genius behind Zombie Strippers.

P.S. Look for a cameo by Jenna Jameson's long-time boyfriend and UFC icon Tito Ortiz as the bouncer/doorman.

Gore, girls and heavy rock music in a sleazy strip club, what's not to like?

[The_Void · 7/10 · 21 June 2008]

I was once a big fan of zombie movies, but then I caught a number of the barrage of 'low budget' zombie flicks and quickly lost interest in the genre. It's not that the zombie film doesn't work well with a low budget; the main problem was that a lot of them work from the same idea and it gets boring quickly. It seems, however, that certain filmmakers have noticed the problem and modern films such as Zombie Honeymoon and this one have decided to deliver something a bit different - and while still silly, the result is much better than 'just another' low budget zombie flick! The plot supposedly takes inspiration from a French play called 'Rhinoceros' (referenced by the strip club, called "Rhino") and focuses on a group of strippers. As the Bush Administration enters its fourth term, America has found itself looking for a way to make its soldiers last longer to help the war effort on multiple fronts. The solution comes in the form of a virus that brings the dead back to life. When the virus infects a stripper at the club, sleazy owner Ian (Robert Englund) realises the girl's new potential and puts her back on stage. After whipping the crowd into a frenzy; the rest of the girls find themselves with a choice to make. Do they stay human and stay second best to the zombie stripper…or do they conform to the latest 'fad'?

There's no denying that Zombie Strippers is a silly low budget zombie film, but perversely it would seem that the filmmakers actually wanted to make something of it; and we also get a muddled social satire along with a commentary on conformity. I have to admit that none of this really comes through in any sort of meaningful way, but you have to give a low budget zombie movie with a porn star in the lead role credit for trying! The thing I liked most about this movie is undoubtedly the club where most of the action takes place. Director Jay Lee creates a dark and seedy atmosphere which really benefits the tone of the film and makes for a great backdrop for the girls' strip dances! The leading lady is the lovely Miss Jenna Jameson. I can't say I've ever seen anything else with her in it, and while she's not really my 'type', she certainly knows how to put on a performance - her introduction and first dance as a zombie are the highlights of the film. The movie also features the talent of the lovely Roxy Saint; both in the acting and music department. The soundtrack for the film really is awesome too and helps to enhance the sleazed qualities of the movie; 'Salute You' by Roxy Saint is a memorable track. The film doesn't hold back in the gore department either, which is nice. The film is already pretty silly from the beginning and it just gets sillier as it goes along. At times I felt things were getting just a bit too silly, but after a while you realise that it's easier just to sit back and go along with it. Zombie Strippers is a long way from being a masterpiece; but I'm sure that this film will find it's audience and anyone that enjoys this sort of stuff will have a blast with Zombie Strippers!

What spoiler? If you don't get what this lame duck is about...

[jonb-29 · 1/10 · 21 May 2009]

Let's start with some honesty. I only managed 43min of this movie. I use the word movie very loosely here, because it wasn't a movie. It was an excuse to get some silicon impregnated women on screen. And an attempt to justify what to me is one of the more sickening features of modern American life, that being strip bars. So, this review is supposed to be about the movie but really like the movie it is more about the degradation of women and the sad people who go to strip bars. Except that the movie was supporting the "pole dancing" scene. I'm amazed. The movie was trite, predictable and boring (how many silicone titted anorexic women do you need?). Here's a tip for movie makers. If you want to do a low-grade titty movie just do it! Don't wreck another genre because you have no creativity. Just get some girls on a beach, get them to take their tops off. And hurrah! a movie that will sell to millions of frustrated US male teens. Pathetic.

Flesh

[tedg · 11 August 2008]

This is poorly made in most respects, and that's part of its appeal. In fact, I liked it. It has more jokes, and better jokes than any of the parody movies I've seen in years.

Here's the setup. W Bush has stolen a fourth term and declared war on a dozen countries, including France. So many soldiers are getting killed that labs have invented a virus that reanimates them so that they can keep on fighting, and harder. This virus gets into a stripper establishment with the result that the strippers once infected get "better," or at least more popular with the goofs.

Sounds like it could be a mess, and it is. I think of it as some sort of triangulation among Tarantino's fake sleaze "Death Proof," but more genuine, "10,000 Corpses" but with something other than snarls and "Shaun of the Dead" but with more clever jokes.

The interesting thing is that there are breasts here. But they are part of the irony, the big joke. They are deliberately depicted to be as artificially defective as the zombie countenance. In fact, the folding here is that we have an on-screen audience of male louts who reward the zombie strippers above the "regular" girls, so they willingly become zombies to be sexier.

The jokes range from cinematic jokes to comments on social issues, and they are at a higher level than usual.

One of the strippers is a former Playmate and that's supposed to be some sort of draw. Its hard to tell which one.

Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.

now THIS could be the worst movie ever

[BadMoviesRock · 2/10 · 22 June 2013]

There are plenty of scenes where you will find yourself asking "What is going on here? Why is this scene happening?" But as a fan of bad movies, this is not new or unique. That a movie this bad actually gets made is depressing. That a director made such a steaming pile of dung is mind-boggling. You expect this when you get no-name actors, directors, etc. who have no experience or talent.

The makeup may have some quality to it, but everything else is just ridiculous. Feels like it was filmed in a garage with one camera. So why is it the worst movie ever?

This movie has Robert Englund! Freddy Krueger! I mean, Nightmare on Elm Street was a big deal back in the late '80's. Hollywood horror, released in theaters nationwide. Will Smith (back when he was a rapper) made a song about it. That something with Englund's backing could be so poorly done is what makes this the worst movie of all time. OK it also has Jenna Jamison...but her acting skills are not considered a draw.

The only reason I don't give it a rating of '1' is all the nakedness. That is THE ONLY saving grace of this movie.

What a BS movie!

[thejoo05 · 1/10 · 12 June 2008]

I am very open when it comes to movies, I even saw a real God awful movie entitled Evil Bong, and if I remember correctly I gave THAT BS of a movie a better review.

I know that for me, I love zombie stuff, I even saw Max Brooks (writer of Zombie Survival Book, and World War Z (which is going to be an actual movie)) when he came to my school. So of course I saw zombies and I was set, but when I saw the strippers I was like, this is going to be interesting, something different, so maybe some originality for a change instead of ripping off Romero. So my review started with an honest 5.

Even after the first 10 minutes I knocked that score to a 3, why you might ask? Because even for a B-movie, the acting can be a lot better. But yet it is that none the less, and what should I expect from a movie like this. They even stole lines from other great movies instead of creating their own. The jokes, and well all the dialog are written by people who think they can write because they have taken a few English classes in college. The acting is over done, in other words, you can tell that they are playing a role instead of acting. And most of the time it felt forced. I even played a part in a school zombie movie as a zombie, I could be a better zombie than the extras. To me it seemed like people were forcing their lines. And to top it off, it seems like it was just to give porn stars a slight break into some real acting (which is noble of them but they should make sure they can actually act). The special effects if anything saved it but not much, only in the blood, but granted it isn't Tarantino.

Then after about so long I realized that it wasn't getting any better, but worse, everything came predictable, and it was just so dumb, it became a pain in the ass, the acting which was bad got worse, even the story digressed, and failed to reach a climax in my opinion. And this was after 45 minutes.

Final thoughts: The people who gave this a good review do one or more of these four things:

1. Don't know a good movie

2. Don't recognize a good B-movie

3. Write good reviews with their dicks

4. View that movies that think differently are genius by default

This movie goes along with Evil Bong on my C-Movie list "C" standing for CRAP!

Absolutely terrible

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 5 January 2013]

ZOMBIE STRIPPERS! is a film that sees strippers turning into zombies. There's no more plotting to it than that, and it turns out to be an absolutely terrible Z-grade movie in every respect: bad acting, bad directing, no discernible storyline, awful effects and terrible, plasticated women.

I was hoping for an energetic romp along the lines of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, but the only thought process that seems to have gone into this film is to combine zombies and strippers. The first half of the movie is taken up with repetitive stripping scenes and the second half is made up of repetitive kill scenes.

There's no middle ground, no interest or attempts at characterisation. We're treated to an acutely embarrassed Robert Englund who alternates between slumming it and hamming it, and once-upon-a-porn-star Jemma Jameson who looks far more frightening at the film's outset than she does when she turns into a zombie later on! At times the whole production seems to be an advert for breast augmentation surgery because there's absolutely nothing to it other than that. It's pitiful, truly pitiful, with painful acting and zombie effects and an inane stupidity to the script.

Exactly what you expect. No wait ... even worse!

[Coventry · 1/10 · 26 October 2008]

Strange… To be honest, I expected to find one harshly crushing review after the other around here, but it looks as if a lot of my fellow reviewers were very mild with their negative criticism and – even worse – most of them even enjoyed this stinking pile of junk. Presumably they were very drunk when they saw it, or maybe I wasn't drunk enough when I watched it. Even in my most optimistic mindset, I can't possibly bring myself to write anything positive about "Zombie Strippers!" This splatter-comedy is embarrassingly UN-funny, childish, retarded, amateurish and actually very boring. The combination of flesh-eating corpses and large-breasted porn stars stripping their clothes off is undeniably appealing to most horror fanatics, but it all becomes dull and repetitive very fast. Writer/director Jay Lee thinks he's very wit and funny, especially regarding his observations of nowadays politics and social situations, but the quality of his jokes and satiric remarks are even lower than those of Pauly Shore. The film already opens painfully, with a news bulletin announcing that George W. Bush just got re-elected for a fourth presidential term and, since he declared war to about half of the world, America is running out of soldiers. Therefore, military scientists developed a serum to resurrect dead tissue and thus create the perfect indestructible warriors. Naturally the experiments run out of hand and a special army squad – dumb but potent – are sent in to exterminate the test species. One infected soldier escapes and finds shelter in a sleazy and illegal strip joint nearby. He promptly attacks the prime stripper girl (Jenna Jameson), but the professional bimbo rises again and continues her dance duties, though not without occasionally devouring a horny customer or a fellow strip girl. Call me old-fashioned or - if you must - a sourpuss, but I sincerely think slapstick comedy and violent zombie action are two cinematic themes you shouldn't even begin to mix. The granddaddy of zombie movies, George A. Romero, always managed to process subtle yet biting social satire into his classic gore movies, but at least he never undermined the level of suspense or the overall grim atmosphere by doing so. Since "Shaun of the Dead", everybody seems to think they're capable of making a horror comedy but all these untalented filmmakers don't realize that zombies – as in people coming back from the dead to hunt the flesh of the living – are actually no laughing matter. Jay Lee desperately tries to be hilarious, with his absurd stripper audience stereotypes & competitive and hostile interactions between the girls mutually, but everything fails miserably. The production can't even distinguish itself from the rest through its special effects, as the computer-generated gore and make-up gimmicks are very average and clichéd. Remarkable, however, is that the girls' breasts remain intact whilst the rest of their bodies decompose, so I guess these silicone implants are zombie-resistant. Good to know! Robert "Freddy Kruger" Englund appeared in a lot of junk recently ("Hatchet", "Heartstopper", "Black Swarm", …) just to claim his pay check, but this is a new low even for him. The rest of the cast was unknown to me, except of course Miss Jenna Jameson. But if you're interested to see her unnaturally large boobs constantly falling out of tops and into a man's hands, there are about five hundred other movies and websites to check out instead.

Too bad you couldn't reanimate a personality!

[one9eighty · 4/10 · 15 September 2020]

Written and directed by Jay Lee, this 2008 film has a runtime of 94 minutes and was given an 18 rating in the UK on its release - unsurprising when you mix horror, blood, sex and violence into one film. If the name of the film hasn't suggested it already, this is a seedy B-movie that puts zombies and strippers in a situation. The title also pretty much sums up the plot, and generally the whole purpose of the film. In a crazy way, the inspiration for this film comes from a play called "Rhinoceroses" by Eugene Ionesco. In that, people begin to turn into rhinos but nobody seems too bothered. The character played by Robert Englund in this film is called Ian Essko - a direct homage to the play writer.

In the not-so-distant future, America is still at war with pretty much everybody thanks to President George Bush and Vice-President Arnold Schwarzenegger. Soon America will slowly lose ground in their war efforts on account of not having enough troops, to compensate for the vast loss of military personnel they have suffered over the years, a research program has been initiated to reanimate dead cells. The hope is that reanimated brains may allow for an army of the undead to do America's fighting, bulking their army back up in volume. An experiment goes wrong, a crack-commando Z-Team is sent in to clear the place of any zombies. One of them gets bit and manages to escape the facility. The escaped (not yet a) zombie makes it to an underground strip club called "the Rhino" (underground because nudity is banned under President Bush) where he bites one of the star strippers. Far from being distraught, she is happy to have been bitten as it seemingly makes her a better stripper, albeit at the expense of her flesh deteriorating. With her increased stripper ability, she is taking customers away from the other girls, so some of them happily volunteer to be bitten. The zombie strippers feast during private dances; after a short bit of titillation for their client they generally eat them. The virus spreads around the club, but club owner Ian Essko tries to keep everything under control by keeping the zombie strippers in cages. That only lasts so long as one of the strippers opens the cage to allow herself to be bitten, but what she has also done is let the zombie strippers out of their cage to cause chaos. Thanks to a late arrival by the Z-Team the remaining strippers and club patrons fight for their survival.

The main stars of this film are Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) as Ian Essko, famous porn star Jenna Jameson as Kat, indie-musician Roxy Saint as Lilith, Penny Drake as Sox, comedian Joey Medina as Paco, and a bevy of good looking models and actresses. For what the film is, the cast do an ok-ish job - it's clear from the delivery who has experience on screen and who doesn't. The film is of course intentionally cheesy and camp with over the top sequences in it. It looks bad and low budget but it's supposed to. The satire and jokes miss the mark by a long way at times - but that rarely becomes a massive problem. The CGI is laughable at times and rarely believable. The whole thing is pretty weak and only stands up if you are a couple of drinks into the night already.

For all my negativity, the film delivers with what it intended, there are zombie strippers in the film. Yes this is a super low budget bad film, but it's unapologetic in being that. If you want a cultured and classy performance then don't bother with this. If you want exploding heads, t&a, nudity, gore, zombies, rock music, poor acting, laughable effects - then my friend, you have come to the right place. This is never going to win awards, and it might never achieve cult status. You might even wonder why anyone bothered making this and what the point is. I say don't... don't try and interpret this because you will give yourself a headache. There is no point, there is no justification to the why - it just is. Nothings explained or wrapped up, there is no social commentary, there is no hidden message about valuing life or the objectification of women. The film just is, because why not.

It's not the kind of film I could put on with kids in the room, or my granny sat in the corner. It is the kind of film I could put on with buddies from college who are sharing a beer or five with me, who aren't really watching the film too intently other than for gore, T&A.

Funny and more funny

[claynjess · 7/10 · 14 April 2008]

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.

Really, stripping zombies

[Prismark10 · 4/10 · 28 April 2016]

This is really a cheesy comic horror film with tits and ass as well as some social satire thrown in ta the beginning.

Set in the near future with George W Bush has elected to a fourth term as President with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Vice President. The military have developed a chemical weapon that will reanimate dead soldiers but the project has gone horribly wrong. A special crack Z Squad is sent to take care of the rogue reanimated personnel.

One of the squad is infected and ends up in a sleazy strip club run by Ian (Robert Englund) who infects star stripper/dancer Kat (Jenna Jameson) who becomes zombified and dances special moves to the delight of the audience who now find the ordinary strippers just ordinary.

Kat infects the other dancers who all begin to turn the club patrons into zombies. Pretty soon there are only a few people left including Ian who are trying to keep the zombies away.

There is plenty of graphic splatter and gore mixed with humour. It is an unpretentious horror film with sex and comedy. Well the ping pong expulsion scene was something you are unlikely to see outside some Bangkok bars.

Englund plays it broad as the amoral club owner who discovers he can make money with zombie strippers and Jameson and other dancers provide sex appeal.

If the Title doesn't sound awesome to you, don't go.

[siemaszko-1 · 9/10 · 9 May 2008]

Zombie strippers was the best movie experience I've had in years. It's exactly what I expected, but on a better budget. It has zombies. It has strippers. It has zombie strippers. Nearly everything I wanted to happen happened. The female zombies are sentient. They still eat flesh. The male zombies are regular mindless slow zombies. There's biting, eating, nudity galore, nude gore, terribly commentary, bad jokes, bad acting, cheesy plots... the only thing it was really lacking was martial arts. If there'd been a bit more kung fu, I'd have given this move a perfect 10. If you've ever rented a move like Erotic Night of the Living Dead and been dearly disappointed, then Zombie Strippers is for you.

A Mixed Bag of Goodies

[InfiniteCinema · 6/10 · 19 April 2008]

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).

Undead Exotic Dancers

[questl-18592 · 3/10 · 25 September 2020]

The movie is called Zombie Strippers with an exclamation point. I feel like that should tell people what they need to know about it. This is about as B-Movie as it gets an you know what? I'm totally fine with that. This is a movie that knows exactly what it is and embraces it wholeheartedly and I can appreciate that. There are a lot of weirdly inserted political jokes though which makes me think that maybe, at some point, someone wanted this to have a message... Which is stupid. Really it's when we see a zombie stripper firing pool balls from her vagina though that it all gets a bit too much.

Anyhow, there's a lot of T&A, profanity, over the top blood... Again, it's called Zombie Strippers! It just tries a little too hard to cram some extra stuff in and it is really flirting with the boundaries of B-Movie sleaze and just straight up soft core Skinemax material. No reason to watch this, unlike some other low rent movies with surprising redeemable qualities. This just is what is and if the name grabs you then you might not hate it.