There’s no good reason you cannot make a good adaptation of Eugene Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros” by replacing the rhinos with zombie strippers. Alas, “Zombie Strippers” is not it. The brother-sister duo Angela and Jay Lee offer mere idiocy instead of campy Absurdism-for-Dummies. They boast in their press notes that the title was just a joke that got out of hand. “In the near future,” when gasoline is $23 per gallon, military-genetic-industrialists invent a virus to re-animate dead soldiers as fear-free “super-soldiers.” Stop-loss in extremis. The zombifying virus finds its way from a secret lab to an unlicensed strip club called Rhino’s run by Ian Essko (Robert Englund) in Sartre, Nebraska. More sophomoric references to come: characters named Camus and Genet, “existential bitch” as an epithet, and dialogue about “infinite nothingness” and “regression towards the mean.” Nietzsche-reader, flesh-eater and pole-dancer Kat (Jenna Jameson from “Cum One, Cum All” and “Camera Sutra”) is the first stripper to go to the dead side. Her co-workers turn green with envy, then with rot. “I think of all the politics of this script was pretty much the hook that brought me into this,” said Jameson. “Zombie Strippers” is even stupider than Uwe Boll’s upcoming “Postal.” It’s not even absurdly bad. With Roxy Saint, Calvin Green, Joey Medina, Shamron Moore, Penny Drake, Jeannette Sousa and Carmit Levite. 92m. (Bill Stamets)
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