Zombie Strippers

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Zombie Strippers

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jay Lee
Produced by Larry Schapiro, Andrew Golov, Angela J. Lee
Written by Jay Lee
Starring Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, Penny Drake, Roxy Saint, Jessica Custodio, Tito Ortiz
Music by Billy White Acre
Cinematography Jay Lee
Distributed by Stage Six
Release date(s) April 18, 2008
Country United States
Language English
Official website
IMDb profile
Penny Drake and Jenna Jameson on the set
Penny Drake and Jenna Jameson on the set

Zombie Strippers is a 2008 comedy horror film, written and directed by Jay Lee, starring Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, and Tito Ortiz and distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It is based on the French existential Theatre of the Absurd play Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco.

The film had its theatrical release on April 18, 2008

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[edit] Plot

The film opens with a news montage explaining that it is set in the near future where the Bush administration has been elected to a fourth term, shut down the United States Congress, instituted a ban on public nudity, and is embroiled in a war with Iraq, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Canada, and an independent Alaska. To support the war effort, a secret laboratory in Sartre, Nebraska has developed a virus to re-animate dead soldiers and send them back into battle. However, the virus has broken containment and infected test subjects and scientists are at risk of escaping the lab. A team of marines codenamed the "Z" Squad is sent in to destroy the zombies, but one of the marines named Byrdflough (Zak Kilberg) is bitten and escapes. The infected soldier ends up in an alley outside an underground strip club named Rhino. The soldier dies and awakens as a zombie that goes into the club.

Rhino is run by Ian Essko (Robert Englund). A new stripper named Jessy has arrived at the club to save up enough money for her grandmother's operation. She is introduced to the club's star dancer, an intellectual stripper named Kat (Jenna Jameson). Kat does a private dance for Byrdflough, who ends up biting and infecting her. Essko is concerned about losing his best dancer, so he lets her go back on stage as a zombie. To everyone's surprise, Kat is a better and more popular dancer as a zombie than she was as a human.

The other strippers now find themselves faced with the prospect of losing their customers, since the men now prefer zombie strippers instead of human strippers. One by one, the human strippers become zombies, some by choice in order to compete or (in the case of a Goth stripper Lillith played by Roxy Saint) for fun. During private dances, the zombie strippers bite and kill their customers. Essko tries to keep the zombies hidden in a cage in the club's cellar, but eventually, the zombies escape and overrun the club. The strippers fight each other for supremacy, which includes a moment where Kat shoots ping-pong and billiard balls out of her vagina at her opponent.

The remaining humans in the club struggle to survive until the "Z" Squad burst in to destroy the zombies. But they discover that the zombies were allowed to escape by the Bush administration, who hoped that the ensuing zombie plague would distract the population from the war and the economy.

[edit] Cast

  • Jenna Jameson as Kat
  • Robert Englund as Ian
  • Roxy Saint as Lillith
  • Joey Medina as Paco
  • Shamron Moore as Jeannie
  • Penny Drake as Sox
  • Jennifer Holland as Jessy
  • John Hawkes as Davis
  • Jeannette Sousa as Berengé
  • Whitney Anderson as Gaia
  • Carmit Levité as Madame Blavatski
  • Calvin Green as Cole
  • Zak Kilberg as Byrdflough
  • Catero Colbert as Maj. Camus
  • Jen Alex Gonzalez as Lt. Ryker
  • Laura Bach as Sassy Sue
  • Jessica Custodio as Kwan
  • Billy Beck as Rincon
  • Travis Wood as Oxnard

[edit] Critical reception

The film received mixed reviews from critics. As of April 25, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 36% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 42 reviews.[1] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 45 out of 100, based on 13 reviews.[2]

A critic from the Los Angeles Times wrote, "'Zombie Strippers' is a B-movie whose ideas and wit set it well above the great unwashed of the genre."[3] While Dennis Harvy of Variety wrote, "A throwback to drive-in days when an outlandishly lurid moniker sometimes gave you all (if not more than) the amusement value of the movie itself, 'Zombie Strippers!' is a one-joke pic that duly delivers on its titular promise to rapidly depleting returns."[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Zombie Strippers Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
  2. ^ Zombie Strippers (2008): Reviews. Metacritic. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
  3. ^ 'Zombie' sends a message. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
  4. ^ Zombie Strippers!. Variety (magazine). Retrieved on 2008-04-25.

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