Zombies vs. Strippers (2012)

Too much of everything

Don't listen to the negative reviews

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Most bad zombie movies suffer from excess plot but this movie is stripped to its bare essence and benefits considerably. The lead is a fellow named Circus-Szalewski (that's his real name, his character's name is "Spider") who puts on an excellent performance as the down and out owner of a sleazy strip club in the bad part of town. After years of struggle to keep the doors open he decides to sell, but have one last party to say goodbye. Inside the employees peel back their inhibitions and denude their feelings for each other while outside it's the apocalypse. The blaring music attracts patrons dying to get in, some in fact already dead. ZvS is a good bad movie. The acting is all over the place but then some were hired for their assets not their thespian experience. The characters are colorful and varied, especially those remaining robed while the strippers are attractive and contribute more than simple eye candy. The biggest letdown are the zombies. Clearly the extras had no previous experience as walking dead, received no briefing and no directing during. Someone clapped them on the back and said get in there and it shows. The gore is light but B-movie effective with plenty of finger biting and some dismemberment. Most of the budget went into hiring the girls and for this kind of movie that isn't so terrible.

As a zombie aficionado, I have to put my decaying hands on just about anything zombie I can come across, and with a title like this, I was fearing that it was going to be as bad as the 2008 "Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!" movie. But luckily I was just a notch better than that movie, not much, but just enough to make it bearable to sit through it to the very end.Full Moon have some fairly questionable, but still worthwhile horror movies to their names, movies that are pseudo-legends in their own way, such as "Puppet Master" and the like, so you generally know what you are going to get from this movie. And it has been quite some time since I have stumbled upon something from Charles Band, so it was a nice surprise with this movie.The story is fairly simple and straight forward, easy enough to follow even for the zombies amongst us in the audience. Set in a small, shady strip club, a group of exotic dancers and their boss find themselves trapped in their going-out-of-business strip club with hordes of the undead wrecking havoc in the city and pressing hard against the doors, hungry to get in to the debauchery and subtle flesh beyond the unlocked doors.The zombies in the movie were adequately made, not overly amateurish, but just lacking enough gore and ghastly effects to be outstanding. But in overall, they did well enough with the zombies, and I have seen far worse in many other zombie movies.As for the characters in the movies, well they were so one-dimensional and stereotypical that it was just downright awful. I am not saying that the people cast to portray these were doing bad jobs, just that the characters in the movie were not really characters that came off as cleverly thought through. And the questionable dialog all throughout the entire movie sure didn't help make the characters become more realistic.If you are a zombie aficionado like me, then "Zombies vs Strippers" is well worth a watch if you haven't seen it already. Yes, it is low budget, but they pulled it off well enough to be entertaining.

This is yet another full moon picture, I still think was tiny improvement on The Dead want women. This could have been a lot more funny then it was, well, it did make me laugh one or twice.The rest of the jokes, felt way to forced and they lost all the funniest even before the jokes ended.For a zombie movie, it wasn't as gory as I thought it would be and there zombies make up effect didn't look that good at all. The first half was very boring, as we get to know about these people, who were all very annoying.The acting is want you would expect of these kind of movies, not good at all but it's not unwatchable. I am giving this movie, a 2 out of 10, caused it made me laugh twice with two decent jokes.

I think this is the second Zombie movie I've seen set in a strip joint, and on some level, I suspect I should be embarrassed about that.Okay, so we have the Zombie Apocalypse break out, and a bunch of characters at a strip joint who are oblivious to it until the Zombies start breaking into their establishment. And once again, they do all the things wrong that people do wrong in a zombie movie, such as fight amongst themselves, ignore the person who has obviously been infected, and every other cliché since George Romero.We also have some characters who are bad clichés themselves, such as the bikers, the sassy black stripper, and the stoned out DJ. Much of the acting is over the top.Not that the movie didn't have some funny moments, like the zombie dressed as Michael Jackson and the sassy black stripper says, "Oh, Hell No!" before dispatching him. But mostly it was paint by number zombie movie with some topless scenes.