When a customer at a strip club suddenly sprouts hair and pointy ears he gets a silver pen in the eyesocket, courtesy of a freaked out dancer. When his packmates find out they are not happy and come looking for payback.
Meanwhile the stripper and her mates are getting seriously tooled up.
Strippers vs Werewolves has the dubious distinction of making only £38 during its first week at the box office. Despite that, it's not the utter trainwreck some reviews would have you believe.
I'm not saying this is a good movie by the way, just that it is watchable.
Let's start with the negatives first.
1.The werewolf makeup is like something from a kids tv show.
2. The script clearly thinks it's being a lot wittier than it is. Example: A young woman walks into her dates house to find him in bits and a pack of werewolves snacking on the remains. And then one of the wolfboys stuffs a severed foot between two bits of bread and slaps ketchup on it. Subtle.
3. The director really, really likes his split screen effects. He also throws in comic-style artwork and each character is introduced with their own caption a la Trainspotting. Trying too hard to tap into that vein of kitschy-cool, basically.
4. The final showdown is all too brief and relies on a Go To Hell Plan that's too stupid for words.
5. Maybe it's just me but I find the sight of a naked , bloody woman being chased around a room more disturbing than erotic. Or funny. I'm not quite sure which the director was going for.
6. And lastly - One obvious Duran Duran track aside, the music tends towards "poor" . Unless you like synthpop pastiche composed in somebody's bedroom, I wouldn't recommend getting the soundtrack album.
On the plus side...
1.
I'm not saying this is a good movie by the way, just that it is watchable.
Let's start with the negatives first.
1.The werewolf makeup is like something from a kids tv show.
2. The script clearly thinks it's being a lot wittier than it is. Example: A young woman walks into her dates house to find him in bits and a pack of werewolves snacking on the remains. And then one of the wolfboys stuffs a severed foot between two bits of bread and slaps ketchup on it. Subtle.
3. The director really, really likes his split screen effects. He also throws in comic-style artwork and each character is introduced with their own caption a la Trainspotting. Trying too hard to tap into that vein of kitschy-cool, basically.
4. The final showdown is all too brief and relies on a Go To Hell Plan that's too stupid for words.
5. Maybe it's just me but I find the sight of a naked , bloody woman being chased around a room more disturbing than erotic. Or funny. I'm not quite sure which the director was going for.
6. And lastly - One obvious Duran Duran track aside, the music tends towards "poor" . Unless you like synthpop pastiche composed in somebody's bedroom, I wouldn't recommend getting the soundtrack album.
On the plus side...
1.
Hello Lucy.
The girls arrive for the showdown
Stripper with a shotgun- Now there's a movie I'd see.
2. The cast is an interesting assortment, comprising soap alumni from Hollyoaks, Emmerdale & Eastenders plus horrors veterans Robnert Englund and Lysette Anthony and the above mentioned glamour model Lucy Pinder. (People who were available and cheap, basically) And for the most part they do a decent job.
3. You have to admit, having a gang of strippers square up to the hairy fiends while dressed as Red Riding Hood is a fun idea.
4. So is having a pair of vampires lurking around Inner London in nighties.
Why? Presumably vamps don't get chilly and it gives inept vampire-hunter Sinclair some purpose beyond providing a couple of critical infodumps.
5. The climactic showdown features the girls using some inventive methods to even the odds
6. And lastly, the final scene is...well I won't spoil it but there's a nice callback to an earlier scene and a film idea that's even better than Strippers vs Werewolves.
To sum up, a great film idea that doesn't really come off, mainly due to lack of money. Might make a decent after-pub film, mind you.
And now some more pictures.
See what I mean about the werewolf makeup?
Sinclair - sadly not as badass as this picture makes out.
Ali Bastien - ready to rumble.
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