Zombie Strippers: dumb, silly, watchable, stacked.

Over at Cinematical, Christopher Campbell has a very funny review up about the new zombie stripper movie titled -- wait for it! -- Zombie Strippers...

Sure, it claims to be based loosely on Eugène Ionesco's classic absurdist play Rhinoceros and, sure, it features allusions to a number of philosophers, including Camus and Sartre, but really it's dumb and silly and a heck of a good time. Particularly if you're anything but sober. And if you're just looking for a grindhouse sort of guilty pleasure to pass the time.

Zombie Strippers opens with a montage that sets the scene: it's sometime in the near future, and Bush has just been reelected to his fourth term. Already, we know this movie will be a complete farce, but the ludicrous exposition continues, explaining that government scientists have developed a virus that allows soldiers in Iraq to continue fighting after they're killed. Yes, these super soldiers are zombies, a minor twist on Joe Dante's anti-Bush short Homecoming, which was one of the more critically celebrated episodes of the cable series Masters of Horror, and which featured Iraq War casualties rising from the dead in order to cast their vote against Bush's reelection.

Well, that plan obviously didn't work, so here the zombies are doing what they're made to do: eat flesh and pole dance.

Link to review, here's the trailer on Apple.com. Jenna Jameson is featured in a non-pornographic role. (thanks, Susannah Breslin!)

Discussion

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#1 posted by Takuan , April 18, 2008 4:15 PM

so,where exactly DID the death by snoo-snoo meme come from? Oldest reference?

#2 posted by Icky Bob , April 18, 2008 4:27 PM

Zombies jumping sharks.

#3 posted by IWood , April 18, 2008 4:40 PM

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Futurama. "Amazon Women in the Mood."

#4 posted by Takuan , April 18, 2008 4:51 PM

no,I was thinking more Assyrian perhaps

#5 posted by eustace , April 18, 2008 5:20 PM

I feel confident that the "death by snoo-snoo" meme originated with storytelling around the ancient campfires. It is one of a handful of memes that spontaneously self-generate when any insular culture meets outsiders. That's my theory, and I'll rant it incoherently if I want to.

#6 posted by Antinous , April 18, 2008 5:41 PM

It's a consonant shift from 'death by cthu-cthu'. Are you happy now?

#7 posted by arkizzle , April 18, 2008 5:56 PM

It used to be "death by Unga Bunga" when we told the joke as kids..

#8 posted by RJ , April 18, 2008 7:59 PM

That movie looks delightfully terrible. Jenna Jameson AND Robert Englund in the same movie? Yeah, I'll have to see that one.

#9 posted by takeshi , April 18, 2008 10:23 PM

Yes, a Rhinoceros mention! The film version with Zero Mostel is truly wonderful.

#10 posted by mino , April 19, 2008 12:26 AM

You hear that buzzing noise in the background? That's Ionesco rotating in his grave ... oh, wait. It's just my tinnitus.

#11 posted by ployntabs , April 19, 2008 10:22 AM

I didn't see anyone of particular stackage.