CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
‘Zombie Strippers’ an Intentionally Killer ‘B’ Movie That Loves the Skin It’s In
CHICAGO – As the title implies, “Zombie Strippers” has everything and more. How many films about strippers who are zombies also quote the bible and Friedrich Nietzsche? This film is loads of fun because it has loads of everything.
Like nudity? Like bodily gore? Like sly political and military commentary? Love Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund? Yeah, it’s all in “Zombie Strippers”.
The film begins in a shadowy lab corporation where an experiment has gone awry. In the not-too-distant future, the fourth term of the Bush administration (certainly the scariest concept in the film) has engendered perpetual war.
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With the army spread too thin, experiments with a chemical virus to raise the dead have the potential to establish a zombie army. The regenerative effect, though, has been released in the lab. A special unit of military defense is called in – the “Z” squad – as the only hope to destroy the undead before they take over the planet.
One of the soldiers gets bitten by a flesh-eating zombie. Now one of them, he escapes from the lab to an underground strip club (public nudity has been banned by the Bush administration). This is where the fun begins.
Infamous porn star Jenna Jameson stars as Kat: the featured stripper in the sleazy club run by Ian Essko (Robert Englund).
Photo credit: Triumph Films |
Photo credit: Triumph Films |