Zombie Women of Satan

A movie that starts with a burlesque troupe performing can't be all bad can it? Especially when it involves a hot woman doing a fan dance right? Well yeah it can when she's wearing pasties that cover not only her nipples but half her damn boobies. And this is in a film who's main, (only?), selling point is topless female zombies... Sadly this is just one of the many disconnects and epic failings of this film.

The setup is great, the afore mentioned burlesque troupe and a female rock singer are invited to a remote farm to be interviewed for an internet show. Of course the host has a secret that involves a cult of brainwashed women and a mad scientist father doing bizarre experiments on women. Of course the singer has a secret of her own, her sister vanished visiting the host and his cult and she's determined to find her at any cost. So we have a group that includes a tough chick, a dwarf, a mute who's act involves chainsawing an apple in half while holding it in his mouth, (there's a reason he's mute...), and Pervo the Clown having to face down these flesh eating flashers, and it all goes horribly wrong.

A film like this has to walk a fairly thin line between enjoyable sleaze and outright misogyny, and the makers of this film didn't even try. Most of the film's “action” consists of scantily clad, and frequently topless female zombies being beaten to death with blunt objects such as golf clubs, usually after Pervo has managed to grope them and make a couple of titty jokes. There's also a bit of apparent zombie rape/necrophilia. I say apparent because the bound female zombie has panties on, and her attacker keeps his pants on, but there he is grinding away regardless.

Now I'm not one to offend easily but this film managed it. It desperately wants to be over the top and outrageous in it's humor but falls so short it's painful. With some actual talent involved this could have been a good enough black comedy along the lines of Bad Taste or Frankenhooker but the writing and directing never rise to the occasion. Even without that it still might have found a niche if they'd piled on the gore the ludicrous levels, but the budget didn't allow for that. Instead you just have ninety minutes of unredeemed and unleavened bad taste and a shitty attitude towards women. Which is a shame because some of the zombies are rather well built...

  I paid $1 for this and honestly I feel ripped off. If you really feel the need to see this you can find the whole film on YouTube and be ripped of of nothing but your time.

                               Zombie Women of Satan (2009) Trailer