“File Prom Night with those thrillers that make you root for the killer rather than the victims, so annoying and vacuous are the picture’s stars.

Despite all the subtext writer-director Jay Lee tries to squeeze into Zombie Strippers – involving everything from the Iraq war to the degradation of women in the sex industry to the psychology of sex workers themselves – it is still far outweighed by lengthy striptease sequences. In other words, there is an awful lot of

“Dawn may be the heroine of Teeth, but in the end the movie is still a little afraid of her.

This avenging ghost story gets you on the ghost’s side early on, which helps you forgive the shlockiness that often mars the picture. Newlywed Jane (Rachael Taylor) seems OK, but her photographer husband Ben (an oddly macho Joshua Jackson) is a pompous jerk. When Ben gets a photo assignment in Japan, Jane meets Ben’s former

"Fortifying your horror film with an intellectual subtext is all well and good – Romero was one of the first to show how this could be done – but you might want to also make sure it’s frightening."

“…missed a golden opportunity by not becoming one of the first films to debut on the iPhone. Steve Jobs could have offered specter screening as a feature.

“Of all the fright flicks that came out in the last 12 months, this is the one that made us hardened critics in the screening room literally jump in our seats.

“The monsters … look like cartoonish, drooling mannequins. It’s like being chased through the Macy’s men’s department.

“…could have been a fantastic, 80-minute B movie – it certainly has the appropriately shlocky special effects – if it weren’t directed by Frank ‘Stephen King’ Darabont.