by Allisonnnnn Geek On the Set: Zombies Versus Strippers

Being on a Full Moon Features set would be a dream come true for some people, a Make a Wish Foundation project come to fruition, without that pesky immediately-descending-death thing. Full Moon is, after all, the company that brought us such movies as Puppet Master, Subspecies, and The Gingerdead Man among so many countless others—and they really feel countless. This is a film company with a horror movie pedigree that can’t be easily compared.

So you can imagine the sound of my delighted girlish squeal when I was invited by Full Moon to set to watch the magic in action. And by magic, I mean zombie horde.

Recently, Full Moon began working with Red Box to bring more of their movies into the public eye, making it now quite easy to drop by your local Red Box stand and pick up titles like The Dead Want Women, Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt, and Killjoy’s Revenge. With this, Full Moon has begun to produce movies with a wider audience in mind.

Thus film Zombies Versus Strippers is about to descend upon us in all its brain-consuming glory and, yes, my right frontal lobe already has started to feel devoured… by excitement!

Spider (Circus-Szalewski) is a business man who is down on his luck. His strip club, The Tough Titty, isn’t doing well and has put him into dire financial straits. An offer of buyout from Ralph Fiorentino: The Parking Lot King has started looking more and more like the only way out and Spider is finally starting to seriously consider it.

Now, this could be a movie on its own. Throw in Tom Hanks as Spider and Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman as strippers (one of them has a deathly ill kid—probably that little girl with leukemia from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) and this could be a heart-warming tale of wrecked lives healing through someone’s rundown dream of perfect tits bobbing along to a great beat.

Or it could be a great musical.

But this movie doesn’t have any fatally flawed kids. What it does have is a set of strippers and a zombie outbreak. Let’s focus on the important part first.

Bambi (Victoria Levine) is an adorable little blonde and one half of the movie’s brief love story, and she is flanked by the sassily stereotypical Vanilla (Brittany Vaughn) who could double in spunk for Foxy Brown and Sugar Hills (Eve Mauro), an older but still quite libido-friendly woman with a smart mouth and a penchant for booze.

Then there’s the zombies… and there’s a lot of them. They like brains and shuffling. One of them looks like Michael Jackson. And they’re never explained. This movie focuses on what would happen if the employees of a strip club with no internet access in the middle of the ghetto was caught in the middle of a zombiefest and had no idea what was going on.

Because, really, when you’re in the not so pleasant parts of town, most of the people smell like rotten meat, shuffle, and are prone to launching themselves at you with teeth a-chomping. I’d like to say that I haven’t experienced this first hand, but I’d be lying.

The patrons of The Tough Titty probably wouldn’t have survived on their own for long but, fortunately, a group of bikers led by the reformed Red Wings (Brad Potts) and an unrelated wild young punk (Adam Brooks) find themselves taking refuge among the denizens of the Titty as they hatch a plan for escape.

Who will win in this battle of breasts, booze, and decaying flesh? Find out by picking up Zombies Versus Strippers at your local Red Box this summer, or by purchasing your own copy from Full Moon Direct.

Also, come on over and check out this interview with Zombies Versus Stripper‘s director, Alex Nicolaou!