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Zombie Strippers

Starring Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, Roxy Saint, Joey Medina, Shamron Moore, Penny Drake, Jennifer Holland, and John Hawkes

MPAA RATING: R for strong violence and gore, sexuality/nudity and language

Sony Pictures Entertainment
Comedy  |  Horror
94 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters April 18, 2008

When a secret government agency lets out a deadly chemo virus causing the reanimation of the dead, the first place to get hit is Rhino's, a hot underground strip club. As one of the strippers gets the virus, she turns into a supernatural, flesh-eating zombie stripper, making her the hit of the club. Do the rest of the girls fight the temptation to be like the star stripper, even if there is no turning back? (Sony Pictures)

WRITTEN BY
Jay Lee

DIRECTED BY
Jay Lee

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

45 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 Village Voice Luke Y. Thompson
Director Jay Lee (The Slaughter) delivers absolutely everything you could possibly hope for in a film called Zombie Strippers, with a consistently hilarious, brutal, and titillating mash-up of "Return of the Living Dead" and "Showgirls" that actually beats out Mark Pirro's "Nudist Colony of the Dead" for the unofficial title of best naked zombie movie ever.
70 Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona
Zombie Strippers is a B-movie whose ideas and wit set it well above the great unwashed of the genre.
63 Boston Globe
Shouting the title never quite prepared me for either how stripping zombies aren't as hot or as funny as I thought they would be or how quickly the movie's eager intelligence collapses on itself.
63 Premiere Ryan Stewart
Whatever planet these dance sequences are happening on, their cuckoo surrealism is the movie's saving grace.
63 TV Guide
On its own low-bar terms, it delivers the goods: pole-dancing, gut-chomping and Jenna J.
60 Film Threat Felix Vasques Jr.
In spite of the horrific dialogue, and even worse acting, there’s actually something to be said for Zombie Strippers!
50 New York Post
Shot on ugly digital video with Troma-grade special effects, campy humor and frighteningly bad acting, Zombie Strippers should provide many laughs for stoners watching it on video.
50 The New York Times
Strewn with some surprisingly decent effects, this unevenly paced film delivers, if nothing else, on the promise of its title: lots of surgically enhanced nude dead women strutting their stuff.
50 The Hollywood Reporter
Jay Lee's grotesque little horror film makes up for in audacity what it might lack in finesse.
50 Variety
The kind of entertainment perhaps better suited to drinking games than full viewer attention.
40 Austin Chronicle
The action can be bloody, but is mostly routine. Ultimately, the film’s most eye-catching special effects are reserved for bikini waxes and implants.
40 Empire
A brilliantly high-concept title and some decent gore aside, you're better off watching the version in your head. It will be infinitely more fun and have markedly improved production values.
30 Washington Post
The movie, as its title suggests, means to be one of those Tarantino-esque in-your-face jobs, amusing on the audacity of its outrageousness. Here's how "outrageous" it is: Zzzzzz-zzzz.
25 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Travis Nichols
Just a crappy flick for the Beavises of the world.
25 The Onion (A.V. Club)
Currently stopping by theaters briefly en route to DVD, the film tries to position Jameson as the next Linnea Quigley, the B-movie queen behind such enduring titles as "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers" and "Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama."

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