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A reanimating virus gets loose in a strip club and starts converting all the performers into brain-hungry undead monsters, in Zombie Strippers, starring Jenna Jameson. You can tell it's a deeply subtle movie from the way one of the women says the film's title with so much gusto, in this trailer. And yet, the comedy/horror film is based on Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play Rhinoceros and takes place in the town of Sartre, NE. Zombie Strippers is getting a limited theatrical release in 14 cities. Click through for details.
A reanimating virus gets loose in a strip club and starts converting all the performers into brain-hungry undead monsters, in Zombie Strippers, starring Jenna Jameson. You can tell it's a deeply subtle movie from the way one of the women says the film's title with so much gusto, in this trailer. And yet, the comedy/horror film is based on Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play Rhinoceros and takes place in the town of Sartre, NE. Zombie Strippers is getting a limited theatrical release in 14 cities. Click through for details.According to writer/director Jay Lee (The Slaughter), here's the plot of Zombie Strippers:
A corporation is developing a chemo-virus to re-animate soldiers killed in combat so they can keep on fighting. The tests prove dying and re-animating can make these soldiers fearless, and thus they become super-zombie soldiers. The virus gets loose in the lab, an elite squad comes in to clean it up, one gets bitten, runs and hides in a dark building that happens to be an illegal strip club.Zombie Strippers hits New York, Boston, L.A., San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami and Madison, WI on April 18, and Atlanta, Seattle and Philadelphia on April 25. Here's the Fandango page. [Cinematical]
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That sounds almost exactly like Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros.
Wow, Zombie Strippers and super soldiers. Where's J.C. Van Dammit when you need him?
Miss Meriam Markham down in Lil Ol N'Alabama would nevah accept zombification, lessen she uz takin' it on for the ol bentfin boomer boys.
so, do all the strippers die first? one can't be reanimated without first being unanimated, right?
It also sounds like a book I just finished reading, John Skipp's "The Long Last Call". But hey!! This has Jenna in it!! I see this going straight to dvd. You think??
Wait, I'm sorry, but I can't get over this. What in the hell makes it based on Rhinoceros at all?
That is what the preview said: "Coming soon to DVD!"
Sounds like Grub Girl.
@braak: Oh, wait, I understand. Zombies are a metaphor for fascism.
Hey! Bob Englund! Its good to see him working; he's a good actor (classically trained) & a Nice Guy.
So, there IS a way to put the two words "zombies" and "strippers" together and make them suck?
Didn't think that was possible.
"Sar-tree", Nebraska? Does nobody read French existentialism in school anymore? A little piece of my soul died today...
@braak: I'm really not sure how we're supposed to get Ionesco from this. But once I see the movie, on opening night at the first possible showing, I *may* have a better idea.
@Charlie Jane Anders: I've heard that Saw is loosely based on Waiting for Godot.
This sounds so awesomely bad. I must see it.
I was *crushed* when my preorder of this movie via Amazon Unbox was cancelled because "the release of this film has been postponed indefinitely by the studio."
But hey, if it's actually coming to theaters maybe it'll be available there eventually...
Rats. I was hoping it would be based on Dead. Nude. Girls. by Lori Selke.
Not that I am anti-Ionesco; Rhinoceros contains my favorite syllogism:
All cats die.
Socrates is dead.
Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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