Live Dead Nudes

They'll Swallow Your Soul, Anything Else Will Cost You.

The movie opens with a news story updating the state of the U.S. and the ongoing war with a number of Nations including "Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, France and Alaska." George W. Bush has been re-elected for his fourth term as president and Arnold Schwarzenegger is the vice president. Due to the increasing loss of American soldiers the government has started a research program in a military facility in Sartre, Nebraska testing the effects of a new chemical that re-animates the dead in an attempt to increase the size of military forces with super zombie soldiers. Although there is a problem, the zombies are out of control. During the fight to control the zombies, one of the soldiers (Byrdflough) is bitten by a zombie and flees the facility fearing he will be killed if the others find out. He ends up at a strip club run by Ian who is played by the famous Robert Englund (Freddy). The usual things that go on in a strip club play out as there is a lot of stripping and many drooling patrons. The soldier finally snaps after the infection from the bite takes full effect and attacks one of the strippers Kat ( Jenna Jameson of porn fame ) and rips her throat out. Soon Kat becomes a zombie yet keeps on stripping, in fact, now being a zombie has turned her into a "Super Stripper" with new skills outshining all the other strippers and bringing in more money. Once the other girls pick up on this, one by one they decide to give in and become zombies. During all of this the new stripper who is very religious and only doing this to get money for her grandmother, struggles with the decision whether or not to become a zombie. Although the girls look dead and rotted, this does not seem to faze the guys, in fact it makes them more interested and willing to spend all their money on these demonic dancers. It does not take long before the guys starting being attacked and slaughtered and thrown in a cage in the basement. There are tons of scenes of the zombie strippers dancing, Ian reveling in the amount of cash being brought in and lap dances ending in death. Things start spinning way out of control and when the zombies in the basement are let out it becomes a full on fight for Ian and the few remaining employees to escape the club without becoming zombies themselves. During all this there is a great scene where Kat fights one of the other zombie strippers and she shoots ping pong balls and pool balls out of her vagina in a great fight between the two. There is a ton of CGI gore in the film but it does look really good, and in one scene that was done really well, a guy gets his face ripped in two.

Robert Englund, who seems to have an appearance in everything nowadays, does a really great job as the greedy, sleazy, conniving club owner willing to keep the place open no matter what. He has some great lines like "Back off, you walking herpe you!", "Tired of that same old lap dance? Well pull up an extra seat, young fellas, and experience Rino's exclusive face dance! One of our lovely ladies will sit on your face and give birth to your head!" and " Why don't you get on the bread truck and haul buns!"

Jay Lee is the writer and director of Zombie Strippers and does not have too much in his resume besides some straight-to-DVD pictures. Jenna Jameson's boyfriend Tito Ortiz (UFC) featured on the poster, makes a ten second appearance as the bouncer, and soon bounces himself. The DVD was released in 2008 by Sony including commentary with Jenna, Englund, Joey Medina and Jay Lee. It also includes a behind the scenes featurette and a another titled "How to glam a zombie".

Zombie strippers was a lot of fun to watch and stayed entertaining all the way through with some great dialogue and nice special effects. It blends the comedy and the gore perfectly making it a perfect beer and pretzels movie. I would not recommend this as a solo watch, so invite a bunch of friends over and pop this DVD in, you won't be disappointed. Just remember-They'll dance for a fee, but devour you for free.

Rating B-

Review by Jason