This is an actual blurb Comcast offers describing one of the movies available to watch free in the On Demand listings:
Bloody mayhem in the Champagne Room. In the near future, a secret government reanimation virus is released, and lands in a strip club. The virus spreads, creating Super Zombie Strippers. TV Premiere
Jenna Jameson, Robert Englund
I can’t tell if that’s horrifying or awesome.
“I can’t tell if that’s horrifying or awesome.”
Porque no los dos? 🙂
(Cue Mexican music).
It’ll have to be really bad to be good…
Zombies are having a burst of popularity these days. “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, “Zombieland”, “Fido”, “American Zombie”, “World War Z”, etc. What makes the idea of malevolent living dead so appealing? Isn’t a heavenly life after death a promise made by most religions? Doesn’t the Bible talk about the dead coming back to life after Judgment Day? In other words, shouldn’t these flesh-eating, brains-seeking, soulless bands of decaying corpses be seen as a good thing?
There’s a strain of “be careful what you wish for” in these stories. What if the dead really did rise up? The zombie motif lets the filmmaker or author comment about the mindlessness in contemporary politics and culture. The latest virus-based “explanations” are jabs at DNA genetic engineering. Interestingly, these stories have more in common with Mary Shelley’s 1830 “Frankenstein”, than George Romero’s 1968 “Night of the Living Dead”.
Having said all that, I hope Jenna Jameson is not a zombie in the movie or in real life. Either way, it’s in my Netflix queue now.