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Zombie Strippers
Zombie Strippers
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jay Lee
Written by	Jay Lee
Produced by	Larry Schapiro ; Andrew Golov ; Angela J. Lee
Starring	Robert Englund ; Jenna Jameson ; Penny Drake ; Roxy Saint ; Jessica Custodio ; Tito Ortiz
Cinematography	Jay Lee
Music by	Billy White Acre
Distributed by	Stage 6 Films; Triumph Films
Release dates	April 18, 2008
Country	United States
Language	English

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Zombie Strippers is a 2008 zombie comedy, written and directed by Jay Lee, starring Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, and Tito Ortiz and distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It is based on the French existential Theatre of the Absurd play Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco.

Plot

The strippers fight each other for supremacy, which includes a moment where Kat shoots ping-pong and billiard balls out of her vagina at her opponent.

Cast

Jenna Jameson as Kat
Robert Englund as Ian
Roxy Saint as Lillith
Penny Drake as Sox
Joey Medina as Paco
Whitney Anderson as Gaia
Jennifer Holland as Jessy
Shamron Moore as Jeannie
Jeannette Sousa as Berengé
Carmit Levité as Madame Blavatski
John Hawkes as Davis
Brad Milne as Dr. Chushfeld
Zak Kilberg as Byrdflough
Jen Alex Gonzalez as Lt. Ryker

Release

Home media

Release history

Region	Date	Format
United Kingdom	13 October 2008	DVD
USA	27 October 2008	DVD

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak position
UK Top 40 DVD Chart	40
USA Top 50 DVD Chart	11

Critical reception

The film has received mixed reviews from critics who have criticised its poor execution while recognising its intentionally camp style. As of August 20, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 41% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 51 reviews.^[1] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 45 out of 100, based on 14 reviews.^[2]

Of the film, Richard Roeper of Ebert & Roeper stated, "It looks terrible. It doesn't work as camp. It doesn't work as low budget crap", while Dennis Harvey of Variety Magazine called it a "one-joke pic". In contrast, Michael Rechtshaffen of the Hollywood Reporter, thought that there was something "perversely effecting" about the film, despite its "lame political satire".^[3]

References

^ "Zombie Strippers Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
^ "Zombie Strippers (2008): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
^ Rotten Tomatoes: Top Critics

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 ==Plot==
+The strippers fight each other for supremacy, which includes a moment where Kat shoots ping-pong and billiard balls out of her vagina at her opponent.
-The film opens with a news montage explaining that it is set in the near future where the [[Bush administration]] has been elected to a fourth term, shut down the [[United States Congress]], instituted a ban on public nudity, and is embroiled in a war with [[France]], [[Iraq]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Iran]], [[Syria]], [[Venezuela]], [[Canada]], and an independent [[Alaska]]. To support the war effort, a secret laboratory run by Dr. Chushfeld (Brad Milne) in [[Nebraska|Sartre, Nebraska]] has developed a virus to re-animate dead marines and send them back into battle. However, the virus has broken containment and infected test subjects and scientists are at risk of escaping the lab. A team of marines codenamed the "Z" Squad is sent in to destroy the [[zombies]], but one of the marines named Byrdflough (Zak Kilberg) is bitten and escapes. The infected marine ends up in an alley outside an underground [[strip club]] named Rhino. The marine dies and awakens as a zombie that goes into the club.
-Rhino is run by Ian Essko ([[Robert Englund]]). A new stripper named Jessy (Jennifer Holland) has arrived at the club to save up enough money for her grandmother's operation. She is introduced to the club's star dancer, an intellectual stripper (in one of the earlier scenes she is shown reading "''The complete works of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]''" before her strip dance is to begin) named Kat ([[Jenna Jameson]]). Kat begins her dance on the stage, but is attacked by Byrdflough, who ends up biting and infecting her. Essko is concerned about losing his best dancer, so he lets her go back on stage as a zombie. To everyone's surprise, Kat is a better and more popular dancer as a zombie than she was as a human.
-The other strippers now find themselves faced with the prospect of losing their customers, since the men now prefer zombie strippers instead of human strippers. One by one, the human strippers become zombies, some by choice in order to compete or (in the case of a Goth stripper Lillith played by [[Roxy Saint]]) for fun. During private dances, the zombie strippers bite and kill their customers. Essko tries to keep the zombies hidden in a cage in the club's cellar, but eventually, the zombies escape and overrun the club. The strippers fight each other for supremacy, which includes a moment where Kat shoots ping-pong and billiard balls out of her vagina at her opponent.
-The remaining humans in the club struggle to survive until the "Z" Squad burst in to destroy the zombies. But they discover that the zombies were allowed to escape by the Bush administration, who hoped that the ensuing zombie plague would distract the population from the war and the economy.
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