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Zombie Stippers

Hilariously good gorefest
By PEG ALOI  |  April 16, 2008
3.0 3.0 Stars
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Zombie Strippers

In this absurd, hilarious gorefest, filmmaker Jay Lee channels Herschell Gordon Lewis, George Romero, and Joe Eszterhas. An opening news montage from the “near future” posits a never-ending Bush presidency and major wars in a dozen nations including Canada. The government has invented a “chemo-virus” that turns people into zombies with superhuman strength, and a soldier who’s part of a zombie-killing unit gets bitten and stumbles into an “underground” strip club (under the new Bush regime, sex is a no-no) whose main act is played by real-life porn star Jenna Jameson. The film wears its feminism, existentialism, and pacifism like rhinestone pasties: you can’t miss them, but you kinda wish they weren’t there. A former stripper and horror-cinema scholar such as myself might be expected to judge such a film harshly. But I found it well-directed, sexy, schlocky, and sublime.107 minutes | Kendall Square
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