This is really a cheesy comic horror film with tits and ass as well as some social satire thrown in ta the beginning.Set in the near future with George W Bush has elected to a fourth term as President with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Vice President. The military have developed a chemical weapon that will reanimate dead soldiers but the project has gone horribly wrong. A special crack Z Squad is sent to take care of the rogue reanimated personnel.One of the squad is infected and ends up in a sleazy strip club run by Ian (Robert Englund) who infects star stripper/dancer Kat (Jenna Jameson) who becomes zombified and dances special moves to the delight of the audience who now find the ordinary strippers just ordinary.Kat infects the other dancers who all begin to turn the club patrons into zombies. Pretty soon there are only a few people left including Ian who are trying to keep the zombies away.There is plenty of graphic splatter and gore mixed with humour. It is an unpretentious horror film with sex and comedy. Well the ping pong expulsion scene was something you are unlikely to see outside some Bangkok bars.Englund plays it broad as the amoral club owner who discovers he can make money with zombie strippers and Jameson and other dancers provide sex appeal.

After accidentally escaping from a government lab, a soldier infected with a deadly virus turns the dancers at an underground strip club into zombies and forces the remaining staff and dancers to fend off the swarming creatures.This is one of the most enjoyable and entertaining zombie efforts in recent times. One of the better elements within this one is the incredibly cheesy atmosphere within this which really gives this an incredibly fun time reveling in all the cheese and sleaze. Form the concept of ow the strip club is run and the manner of keeping the infected around, the backstage antics of the hypochondriac boss afraid to touch the girls and the ease with which everyone accepts the inevitable of how the growing zombified hordes overtake the club here gives this such a cheesy atmosphere. This here gives the relentless and constant stripping scenes where there's plenty of extreme dancing, topless gyrating and partying that goes on inside the private booths where they feast on the customers who find themselves forced to deal with the remaining aftermath of turning the others into zombies as well into not just the cheesy atmosphere here but also adds a great bit of action into this. There's plenty to like about the opening raid on the research lab overrun with creatures as the team lays waste to dozens of creatures in spectacular gunfights blasting them to pieces, the rounding up the turning zombies an their discarded limbs left behind and the group's attempts to hold off the rampaging zombies loose inside the back of the building as the gunfight causes the group to fall victim to the creatures here and bringing along the film's best part here in the final half overtaking the club. Filled with exceptionally fun shootouts here in the parlor and out in the different hallways trying to keep them from getting loose, scores of fantastic kills here both of the swarms killing patrons and the amazing duel between the two rival zombies on the stage which is highly enjoyable. Another positive aspect here for all this is the superb make-up here, with utterly spectacular zombies filled with unique looks and great deformities, truly spectacular gore and all leaving plenty of mess behind which is so much fun here. Along with the finely- delivered nudity, there's so much to like here that overcomes the film's big flaw. The big downer here is the need for the existential debates here which are really overlong and have little place here. This here is all that's wrong with it.Rated R: Full Nudity, Extreme Graphic Violence and Extreme Graphic Language.

Indulge me for a moment, please, as I quote myself from an old review: "It can be a tricky balancing act, coming up with the perfect film in the genre known as the horror comedy; a picture that is hilariously funny while at the same time being truly scary. And while there is no shortage of films with a decidedly uneven ratio of horror::comedy--such as 1960's 'The Little Shop of Horrors,' 1974's 'Young Frankenstein' and 1975's 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'--such films usually come off as pure comedies, only with a horror setting. But when the balance is just right, such as in 'The Ghost Breakers' (1940), 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein' (1948, and still probably the finest exemplar of the horror comedy ever made) and 'Spider Baby' (1964), the result can be a timeless and wonderful entertainment." I wrote those words in my review of the 2002 cult item "Bubba Ho-Tep," which succeeded wildly as both horror and comedy, I felt. Well, now I must report that, to my great surprise, I have discovered yet another picture that manages that tricky balancing act: Jay Lee's "Zombie Strippers" (2008), which is not only laugh-out-loud funny, as might have been expected, but also features more gross-out, gut-munching, head-bursting zombie carnage than the last three George A. Romero movies combined!In the film's hilarious opening, a ridiculously gung-ho Marine team, the Z Squad (clearly patterned after the tough-as-nails crew in the sci-fi epic "Aliens"), is called in to quell a zombie revolt at a government lab, where the living dead were being developed to act as the supersoldiers of the future. The zombies are effectively slaughtered in a gonzo bloodbath, but one of the Marines, Byrdflough (!), gets bitten and infected during the battle. Fearful of being preemptively shot by one of his team members, Byrdflough escapes the scene and hides out in the local Rhino Club, which is run by a character named Ian Essko, and played by none other than Freddy Krueger portrayer himself, Robert Englund. (Literate viewers may recall that French playwright Eugene Ionesco came out with a play in 1959 called "Rhinoceros"; just one of the many literate in-jokes scattered throughout the film.) Before long, Byrdflough turns into a zombie himself, and attacks and kills the club's head stripper, Kat (played with zest by "The Queen of Porn," Jenna Jameson). But Kat doesn't stay dead for long, and her abilities as a pole dancer are only enhanced by her zombified state, resulting in her enormous popularity with the male buffoons in the audience! And soon, all the other jealous ecdysiasts are desirous of becoming zombies, too. Ian's new zombie strippers are raking in major bucks for the club, before long, but there IS a problem: All the male customers who the gals infect have in turn become zombies themselves, and have been locked away in the Rhino's basement. And that basement is reaching the point of maximum capacity....All the gore hounds out there who may be thinking that this silly-sounding movie won't deliver the requisite zombie mayhem might be in for a big surprise as "Zombie Strippers" proceeds. The FX in the film are terrifically impressive, the makeup work all that could be desired, the blood and guts worthy of approbation by Tom Savini. Just watch as Lilith, the Goth stripper, splits a guy's head open to eat his tongue, or how Madame Blavatski (the hilarious Russian in charge of the strippers, and named, of course, for whatever reason, after the notorious Russian occultist of the 19th century, Madame Helena Blavatsky), after being zombified, has her body blown apart, bit by bit, by machine gun fire. And you won't believe what a zombie can do in regard to a pole dance...simply eye boggling! The film, as mentioned, is also wildly funny, with many hilarious lines; the references to this viewer's all-time favorite movie, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," as well as to the cult fave "The Warriors," almost made me fall off the couch with laughter. Other hilarious bits: the newscast that opens the film, detailing George W.'s fourth term as president (yikes!), and the scene in which Ian's assistant, the Mexican Paco, looks at a photo of his wife and two daughters, before going off to fight the undead, and tearfully says, "Adios, Maria, Maria, Maria...." And just get a load of what zombie Kat is able to do with a bunch of pool balls (decency prevents me from saying)! As for Englund, he gives a fine comedic performance here, and his obnoxious, germaphobic character (he is constantly spraying disinfectant on the girls, and saying things like "You walking herpe") is a genuine inducer of big laffs. Of course, the film features fairly copious amounts of nudity, and many breasts are on display...some of them even natural. (Certainly not Jenna's, though; no two breasts could ever be that perfectly matched and symmetrical!) The picture is also a lot smarter than it needs to be, with numerous philosophical references (Kat, hilariously, is shown reading a book by Nietzsche, which she cannot understand until after she becomes a zombie; the film transpires in Sartre, Nebraska; and several of the strippers indulge in fairly deep existential discussions), a recomplicated plot finale, and timely and clever put-downs of the Bush administration (granted, a fairly broad target for satire). The film is surely not in the same great league as "Bubba Ho-Tep" or the other wonderful classics mentioned up top, but it still manages to succeed as both horror and comedy, for which the picture has my grudging respect. Who would have ever thought that a film featuring zombie face dancing could be so good?

A military unit made up of some goofy guys and pretty girls is called to a research lab. There the scientists have created zombies. The unit is told some zombies are lose and they can be killed with a shot to the head or when zapped by electricity. They go after the zombies and realize that the electric gun doesn't work all that well and some are bitten. Those that are have to be executed. When one of the bitten military guys sees that, he escapes and ends up in a strip bar.We meet the strippers, the boss, the lady in charge of the strippers, the dj, the janitor, the security guard. At first we deal mostly with stripper drama- the rivalry between two strippers, the angry goth stripper, the new virginal and religious stripper who's there to make money to help her sick grandmother against her boyfriends wishes, and others. The boss is played by Englund and he's all about the money. When the military guy turned zombie bites the star stripper, business goes on as usual. Not only that, but the customers for some reason go wild over zombie strippers. She starts attacking customers, and other strippers volunteer to be turned into zombies as well. Eventually all hell breaks lose. Then at the end we learn a bit more about the research project.Zombie Strippers as one would expect is campy, silly, at times dumb, but at other times the script show signs of intelligence. There are plenty of philosophical references (Nietzsche, Blavatsky, Camus, ontology, existentialist, fatalism, optimism, and more) and also philosophical musings about life and its meaning. These aren't dumb people making a dumb movie, but smart people who saw an opportunity to inject some brains into it what would otherwise have been a braindead movie. The movie is also very political. As a horror movie, zombie strippers is actually pretty good, it doesn't have a lot of gore but when it does, it's very good. It combines both physical and CGI gore and both are good, of course physical effects are much better. The strip club is among the worst settings for a movie, few movies manage to convey the supposed titillation of strip clubs. But Zombie Strippers does actually have some pretty decent strip acts. Some of them are in zombie make up, which is a bit odd, but even under makeup and contact lenses the beauty of the women comes through. The female cast is very good- from the military girls to pretty much every stripper, they are attractive girls, unfortunately not all of them strip. A shame in the case of the lovely Whitney Anderson.Zombie Strippers would have been better had it taken itself more seriously. Too many actors are playing for it laughs here, even though their character's life is at stake. It should be possible to make a good, serious, and smart B movie, even horror movie, that doesn't feel it has to be funny or silly to find an audience.