5.3 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
When werewolf chief Jack Ferris is accidentally killed in a strip club the girls who work there have until the next full moon before his bloodthirsty wolfpack seek murderous retribution.
Starring: Steven Berkoff, Robert Englund, Billy Murray, Sarah Douglas, Martin KempHorror | 100% |
Supernatural | 18% |
Crime | Insignificant |
Comedy | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.34:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
None
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 1.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
It may be a tad early yet to be announcing an exciting new subgenre of film, but with the releases of Zombie Strippers and now Stippers vs. Werewolves, along with the theatrical offering Zombies vs. Strippers which hasn't yet matriculated to Blu-ray, it seems that ecdysiasts may be busting out all over (so to speak) as a cinematic trope. We’re perhaps not quite at the level of the recent influx of historical characters, both fictional and real life, battling various supernatural phenomena, as in the recently released Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies or the upcoming Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D, or the hotly anticipated Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which transports the saga of the Bennets and Mr. Darcy into the realm of the undead, but one can hope, can’t one? As my colleague Martin Liebman mentioned in his review of Zombie Strippers, Strippers vs. Werewolves is a film that probably greenlit on the allure of its title alone, without anyone bothering to worry very much over little things like plot and character. What proves to be a relative saving grace for this film, though, is its resolute awareness that it is Grade Z fare, a living comic book, and with a complete lack of ambition, it does indeed pit strippers against werewolves with a minimum of fuss and bother, but with a surfeit of bosoms, fangs and gore. It’s never quite as funny as it really should be, but there’s a spirit of goofy fun that inhabits large swaths of the film and which may make it perfect late night fare for those in search of a film they don’t really need to pay attention to, and in fact may not want to if they actually do pay attention to it.
Strippers vs. Werewolves is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Well Go USA with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.34:1. Technical specs on this film are next to impossible to come by, but this certainly has the look of having been shot on HD video. That gives the film a typically flat, shallow look which actually plays rather well into its comic book ambience. The image here is acceptably sharp, though it never really pops magnificently, and unfortunately many of the darker interior scenes are murky, with ineffective shadow detail and strangely low contrast. What's especially odd about Strippers vs. Werewolves is how strangely desaturated it appears at times (see the screencap of Robert Englund for a good example). This should be a gorefest, but instead blood is kind of rusty brown and flesh tones look pallid enough at times to make the viewer think this is a vampire film.
Strippers vs. Werewolves features a fun and immersive lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix that helps establish the film's goofy ambience rather well. There's an appealingly retro-eighties feel to much of the music (that is not in fact Duran Duran doing "Hungry Like a Wolf," but a cover band), with British duo The Soda Jerkers providing some fun tunes that kind of are reminiscent of The Pet Shop Boys. The Vixens moments are also very well designed, with good use of surrounds helping to recreate the noisy atmosphere of the club. Dialogue is cleanly and clearly presented and the track exhibits a rather surprisingly wide dynamic range, with low end especially impressive.
Strippers vs. Werewolves could have been good, brainless fun had it gotten to the central showdown earlier and if it had utilized some of its more renowned actors a bit more effectively. The problem with starting with a title and then building a film around it is that if the title references a battle, you need to have a battle before the closing moments of the film. Too much of this outing is spent in relatively pointless sidebars. Some of them are undeniably funny, but the overall feeling of Strippers vs. Werewolves is, to quote a certain overused metaphor, like taking a shower in a raincoat. There's too much masking the central conceit here, and that façade keeps the film from ever breaking through into the outrageous satiric content that it really should have mined more effectively.
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