Zombies Vs Strippers

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Alternative Titles: N/A

Director: Alex Nicolaou

Year: 2012

Starring: Circus-Szalewski, Eve Mauro, Victoria Levine, Brad Potts

 

Synopsis:

The Tough Titty is a strip club that's seen better days. Spider has been losing money on his business for years. Now it's finally getting the traffic he's always wanted... unfortunately, most of his patrons are undead.

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Review:

A couple years after the boom came this film from Full Moon Features, ZOMBIES VS. STRIPPERS, and it certainly lives up to its name.

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All the action is set in the almost empty ‘Tough Titty’, tiki themed, strip club where the owner Spider has been losing money for years.  After another slow night, he gives in and finally decides to sell the bar allowing the staff one last party before they close. However, Spider didn’t bank on the zombie apocalypse occurring and driving customers, both dead and alive straight through his doors.

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Kicking off with some witty dialogue it is a shame that the film then grinds slowly to a halt resulting in an overall dull opening twenty-five minutes. One in which you too start to think about leaving the club behind, all this is exacerbated by the distinct lack of real zombie action bar a solitary minor scene.

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Thankfully a weird looking punk bursts into the bar to liven things up, armed with cash and the desire to get wasted, not to mention to look at tits, this introduction kick starts the film beginning to drive things forward as the film finally starts to build momentum thanks to new, and interesting characters slowly being incorporated into the story. Admittedly although this does seem somewhat thrown together, it does eventually work thanks to some great performances, and regardless of pacing issues, when he gets in the zone writer Kent Roudebush (GINGERDEAD MAN VS. EVIL BONG; THE DEAD WOMEN WANT) does really know how to write good, likable characters not to mention witty dialogue helping to (eventually) make the film more endearing.

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With this momentum building the film takes things up a notch in terms of tits and gore culminating in some noticeable and fantastic scenes. Although disappointingly despite eventually getting the living right, Roudebush struggles with the zombies who really aren't up to much, despite shambling and calling for brains they, with the exception of Hambo the farm hand clown, are not very menacing and a bit of let down considering the film genre. Rather bizarrely and intentional or not, one shot was quite reminiscent of MARS ATTACKS wherein a zombies head explodes from listening to (what it would call) music offensive to it’s ears and this did elicit a chuckle.