A+ Premise Mired with Lackluster Execution
Added 7/29/2009
Zombies and strippers might be the best combination since some chunky slob slathered peanut butter and jelly onto a couple slices of bread. This film is Night of the Living Dead meets Striptease...is it any good?
The film is certainly entertaining, but it should have been much better. For every positive there are two negatives. For starters, if you are making a movie about strippers there had damn well better be more than a few seconds of exposed female goodness. The hottest stripper is the fake, catty, blonde bombshell, Dakota (Jessica Barton) who performs a titillating lap dance and all we get is a peek-a-boo nipple through a tuft of hair! WTF!?! I want to see topless bimbos blasting zombies with pump action shotguns whose kickback causes fake boobies to jiggle uncontrollably. Don't sell me a horse and then hand me a pig dammit.
To be fair, it's not all bad. The focus is clearly on the zombie action. There are some fun special effects and practically every weapon that is a staple of the genre is on display. Sadly, much of the effective zombie splatter is overshadowed by the amateurish CG effects. The ending in particular looks like a scene from the videogame instead of a live action film. I would have much preferred a more basic and organic approach. The zombies do look good and they nail the slow and steady variation made famous by Romero.
Some of the more memorable characters are the aforementioned Dakota, the slap happy Pimp Johnny "Backhand" Vegas (Anthony Headen), and the reluctant hero Chris (Sean Harriman). Headen steals every scene he can as he channels Bernie Mac while Harriman won me over with his average Joe, deadpan delivery. The rest of the cast was pretty bad, but I've seen much worse in movies with larger budgets.
I didn't love this movie nor did I hate it. It could have been better, but given the inexperience of the people making it, they certainly did a commendable job. It scores points for being the first film that turns whores into zombies via smoking crack, but there are too many glaring flaws to fully appreciate the sleazy genius on display. Strippers vs zombies is an unreal premise and I hope that someday a more capable film crew can take the idea and run with it.
Final Grade: C-
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Amusing enough.
Added 6/28/2009
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (Jason Murphy, 2008)
So let me ask you: why is it that, after the great zombie revolution of 1968, and the great zombie revitalizations of 1985 and 2004, it took someone forty years to make the most obvious movie ever: zombies vs. strippers? I mean, it seems to me that they go together like oil and vinegar. Potatoes and dill. Brains and... okay, I'll stop that one before I piss someone off.
In this typically cheesy, low-budget affair, a scientific experiment goes wrong (big surprise) and unleashes a horde of hungry zombies. Being for the most part men, the zombies do what is expected of them: they head for the nearest strip club. A bevy of different types of folks, including a number of strippers, one stripper's boyfriend, a bouncer, and a brutal pimp, among others, are trapped by the zombies, and have to both survive the night (why do they always have to survive the night? Zombies don't go away in daytime) and figure out where the zombies came from to see if they can come up with any clues to stop them.
It was quite a pleasant surprise to me that the script here, the first feature-length offering from screenwriter Anthony Steven Giordano, is clever and witty, if not subtle most of the time. I actually laughed out loud two or three times, which is rare for me when watching zombedies; there are quite a few amusing ones, but laugh-out-loud funny is rare. Unfortunately, the script is the only thing that really distinguishes the movie; the acting is sometimes competent, but generally not, while the special effects are about the level one would usually find in a high school movie shot direct to video. (Actually, given the existence of Pathogen, that's not strictly true; the special effects there were a fair sight better.) Still, it's not an entirely awful movie, and if you're the kind of person who can judge a movie by the potential it almost realizes, then you'll get a few kicks out of this. **
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I bought multiple copies cuz it's a great gift
Added 6/6/2009
This is a great campy horror movie. What more could one ask for then blood, and boobies? I recommend it as a great gift if you know someone who loves horror movies or as a awesome gag gift.
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A Crowd Pleaser!
Added 4/26/2009
Have you ever thought to yourself, What if there was a movie with Strippers killing zombies? Well the question is answered, There is! It's called Zombies, Zombies, Zombies Vs Strippers! No it is not a soft core porn video featuring zombies having sex with strippers, It's an all out war between Strippers vs Zombies, If you like movies like the ever so popular Shaun Of The Dead then you are in for a real treat. Zombies, Zombies, Zombies Vs Strippers will raise your hormones and testosterone to a level were your going to feel like your going to pop and give you some of the best laughs a Horror/Comedy can.
The film starts out where a drug experiment goes terribly wrong, this over weight sweat hog junkie is visiting a scientist who happens to be working on some kind or serum that reanimates dead tissue. The fat slob then decides to steal the serum and head over to the strip club to get his rocks off , he picks up one of the hookers outside the strip club and smokes the serum in his car with her while they get down (I mean she gets down) well you go the point, and she did as well. The result does indeed get them high, so friggen high that the hooker steal what's leftover and smokes the living daylights out of it, Damn she is quiet the piece with her mouth! She even shares with her other prostitute friend, that's what friends are for!!
Inside the strip club we are introduced to a variety of strippers, it's like going to your local candy store and deciding what candy you want to suck on, You get the point, The characters that played the part as strippers we as sweet as candy, a bubble gum flavor of goodness!
Meanwhile at the strip club the hookers hang outside, it's first night for the new cute pigtailed girl named Harley, Harley gets into a verbal dispute with the hardcore Dallas and they have it going on, word for word I mean, The Girls and the bouncer go to breakfast at a local diner and that's where you see the first altercation between the hookers and strippers. It's the same hangout that the prostitutes that have smoked all that serum hang out. We get introduced to Johnny backhand (The pimp) and he by far is the funniest character of them all, he made my gut burst in laughter, I almost needed a C section to relieve the pain from laughing, he was good! Real Good!
The prostitutes take very ill all of a sudden and then immediately all turn in to zombies. Cue a mad dash back to the strip bar followed by the zombie outbreak you've all been looking for.
As I don't like to give every detail away you will see how it all boils down with the hookers, strippers, pimp, bouncer and two cent boyfriends in a struggle to survive, The movie soon takes a turn into an all out gore fest! We see Shotguns blasting! chainsaws dicing, bobbies bouncing, blood spilling into a river of insanity, All you males out there get ready for one of the most sexual lap dances ever to be captured in a movie, It's done by Jessica Barton and man she will make it hard for you to stand up out of your recliner, Get the tissues ready boys!! The ending was very original and never done before, what it is? I can't tell you , it's something you have to buy and see for yourself. This is not a movie just for males, It in fact it will please any woman that want's to see zombies in good old fashion glory.
Hats of to Zombies Zombies Zombies, it is low budget and a soon to be cult favorite so don't expect this movie to win an oscar, but it wins an oscar in the hearts of the horror genre fans. The acting is good, the plot comical/blood fest and, well, it's all very tasteless and, well, the hell with it. But God damn it is ground breaking, it's a hard on of thrills from start to finish.
Zombies, Zombies, Zombies vs Strippers is a toungue and cheek Horror/comedy, It's an epic battle between Hot and dead through the most unlikely characters. It's a GORE filled new age Strippers Vs Zombies Gone Wild!
I Am What I Say I Am Rated R [JohnnyHorror]
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Not for Everyone
Added 4/25/2009
The acting leaves a lot to be desired and the production value and effects are not great. That being said, I still liked this movie a lot. Crack whore zombies fighting strippers with an all-American, good boy hero as the savior is too funny to miss. I loved the pimp, Johnny 'Back-Hand' Vegas, he is hilarious. I know a lot of people will say this movie is stupid but I enjoyed the humor and the zombie horde bearing down on a strip club.
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Entertaining, but not necessarily well done, horror-ish movie
Added 5/6/2009
Let me preface this by saying that I'm an absolutely die hard horror fan and my standards for horror are remarkably more relaxed than they are for any other genre. That said, I enjoy this movie (enjoy, not enjoyed, because I watch it on occasion) for several reasons that often influence me: its set in a fun setting (Louisiana), a lot of good night time scenes, a fun cast, amusing dialog, etc. Obviously, the acting is so so (not the worst I've seen), the horror isn't really there, despite its efforts, and production quality is pretty low. But like I said, I have lower requirements for enjoying a horror film, and this certainly fits within those confines. Think of this movie like Hatchet, only far lower budget.
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