I was searching through the new movie releases when I came
across the following title: Zombies vs.
Strippers. Intrigued, I read the full description:
The local strip club has seen
better days. But tonight it's gonna see a whole lot worse. 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. With a sudden
outbreak of the zombie virus, Vanilla, Bambi, and Sugar Hills deal with the
disaster the way only a stripper can, as blood and braziers [sic] go flying.
Rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for bloody horror violence, sexuality/nudity, language, and some drug use.
Excusing the several grammatical problems, I can’t say that this
description holds any allure. I suppose there must be a market out there for
zombie-stripper movies that promise “bloody horror violence, sexuality/nudity,
language, and some drug use,” not to mention protagonists name “Vanilla, Bambi,
and Sugar Hills,” but that market doesn’t include 63-year-old retirees living
(as yet not undead) in Iowa. There seem to be more and more movies released
each week, but at the same time fewer and fewer worth viewing. The problem with
a market-driven media (film, TV, books, whatever) is that the market doing the
driving is 16 to 28 years old and can’t get enough sex and gore, separately or
preferably mashed together, “blood and braziers [sic] . . . flying.” Hence,
someone was able to conceive of, finance, produce, and distribute something
called Zombies vs. Strippers. It
would be nice to think that it is a neo-theater-of-the-absurd comedy in the
manner of Ionesco, Genet, or Beckett, or even Mel Brooks. But I’m not going to
bet the $1.20 rental fee to find out.
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