Review of Zombie Strippers! (2008) by Dwain P — 22 Sep 2009

"Zombie Strippers" is a bawdy comedy that works about 80% of the time. Its storyline is straightforward: under George Bush's fourth term, the US government develops and releases a zombie virus.

The country is at war all over the world and the zombie virus both reanimates dead tissue and turns the reanimated into relentless super soldiers. The virus escapes containment and a squad of commandos is sent to put down the zombies.

One of them is bitten and, after seeing another infected person perfunctorily executed, he runs in terror. Ironically, he ends up crashing through a side door into an illegal strip club called "Rhino's.

" He infects Kat, a stripper played by Jenna Jameson. Unlike men, who instantly become mindless, shambling monsters when bitten, infected women retain their personalities and higher functions. They also become great strippers.

The club's owner, played by Robert Englund, decides to keep his zombie stripper on staff because she works the crowd better than she did when she was alive. In short order, all of the strippers become infected or allow themselves to become infected once the club's patrons decide they prefer zombies to real women.

Hilarity ensues when the rivalries and self-loathing among the strippers manifest. And then there's that persistent hunger for living flesh and that growing pile of reanimated customers locked up in the basement.

It's called "Zombie Strippers" and stars a porn star, so you know it's dumb. The story has plot holes and lapses in its internal logic. Its attempts to criticize the Bush administration are clumsy and the acting is exactly what you'd expect in a Z-movie.

Confessing all that, I have to admit that I enjoyed "Zombie Strippers." It was very, very, VERY dumb fun.