Slice of SciFi's sister network, the Zombie Channel, is happy to welcome Michael Hickerson as the site's News Director in charge of the website and all things zombie.

Michael is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a degree in journalism. He’s had a wide and varied career that has included stops as a sports writer/editor, tech supporting, running a software distribution company and delivering live scores and data. He also currently works for the governor’s communications office for the state of Tennessee.

After working as a journalist for Slice of SciFi for a year, Michael was promoted to Assistant News Editor. He now takes on the duties as head writer and News Director for the Zombie Channel.

Genre: Comedy and Science Fiction/Fantasy
Running Time: 1 hr. 34 min.
Theatrical Release Date: April 18th, 2008
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and gore, sexuality/nudity and language.
Directed By: Jay Lee
Starring: Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, Roxy Saint, Joey Medina, Shamron Moore

While there’s several individual elements to like about Zombie Strippers, it feels like director Jay Lee added in too many contradictory ingredients and then didn’t leave the blender on long enough. The sexuality shifts from placid erotica to disturbing decadence, the humor wavers between utterly silly to downright vulgar, and the acting ranges from over-the-top to porn star (which is what the majority of the actresses are). Maybe there isn’t a whole lot to like about this film after all.

When a group of mercenary soldiers are called in to exterminate the threat of a deadly chemo-virus outbreak in a research lab, one of their own is exposed to the zombifying disease. To avoid execution, the renegade soldier escapes to a nearby strip club where disease-paranoid owner Ian (Robert Englund) manages a group of rivalrous strippers. Succumbing to the infection, the mercenary ends up taking a generous bite out of Kat (Jenna Jameson) and unpredictably the zombified stripper becomes an even bigger hit at the club. Realizing the monetary potential of zombie strippers, Ian exploits the resurrected girls – but things quickly get out of hand as the ravenous appetites of the undead strippers steadily diminishes the number of raving customers.

When the cast contains primarily well-known porn stars, the promised erotica becomes a definite draw. And such nudity is certainly delivered as each girl gets her own lengthy strip scene both before and after the reactivation of dead tissue. However it’s here that the film takes a mortifying turn towards the unsettling as the zombie strippers rapidly decay – and there’s nothing sexy about seeing copious amounts of destroyed flesh. Perhaps this irony is Lee’s cunning punishment to his audience for participating in such a voyeuristic affair – but it’s probably just for the gross-out factor.

The film is also filled with plenty of humor, but of the kind that is largely hit-or-miss. Attempting to overload the audience with racial, religious, slapstick, pop culture and crass jokes, more often than not they simply don’t pack a punch. At one point the Mexican janitor Paco (Joey Medina) is seen armed to the teeth like Pancho Villa, bidding his mule farewell. Either you’ll find the scene humorous, or you won’t – the entire film can essentially be summed up in just that fashion.

All of the strippers engage in meaningless conversations about existentialism, fatalism, and other philosophical doctrines, probably in the attempt to satirize the events that unfold. But considering that so much time is spent simply trying to unsettle the audience, or showcase the physical talents of the nude pole-dancers, any meaningful cynicism is immediately lost. At least the gore, violence and prosthetics are all superbly portrayed – up until the computer animated blood erases all that hard work from our memories.

Third-rate dialogue, third-rate acting, third-rate storytelling, and first-rate nudity accounts for all of the appeal of Zombie Strippers. The film is made for a single distinct crowd, and promises entertainment only to those who expect nothing more than what was eluded to in the theatrical trailer.

- The Massie Twins
MoviePulse.net

We have our winners for the two contests we have been running for several weeks now....and, here they are:

AUTOMATION TRANSFUSION DVD Winner: (1 winner)

SANDS OF OBLIVION DVD Winner: (10 winners)

Cyborg Arm Games breaks the zombie video game mold with their new PC first person shooter: "Cry of the Infected."

In a unique twist on zombie games, gamers can feel what it might be like to be a raging zombie. An entire city of civilians has been turned into zombies as a result of a biological warfare experiment gone wrong.

Gamers play as Robert, a zombie trying to find his missing wife in a city torn apart by the outbreak. Groups of soldiers shoot anything that moves out of their own fear and loss of control. Some zombies attack their own kind in fits of agony. Perhaps worst of all is the crushing hopelessness that Robert must overcome as he rips and tears his way through this abandoned city.

“The story is really told through two perspectives,” said Luke Porter, creator of Cry of the Infected, “You experience this gruesome environment as a zombie, but you also find pieces of a letter from one of the soldiers assigned to contain the zombie outbreak.”

For only $4 (USD), gamers can experience 13 levels of action bound together by a compelling story and game environment. The main game contains 1-2 hours of game-play, and the game can be replayed for an alternate ending and an unlockable secret weapon.

Games purchased through Cyborg Arm Games are sent via a download link. A demo of "Cry of the Infected" can be downloaded at http://cyborgarm.com

About Cyborg Arm Games:

Cyborg Arm Games is an independent game studio created by Luke Porter in August 2007. Cyborg Arm Games offers unique first person shooter experiences for the hardcore gamer at low prices.

Horror prince, Robert Englund stars in the zombie flick "Zombie Strippers."

When a secret government agency lets out a deadly chemo virus causing the reanimation of the dead, the first place to get hit is Rhino's, a hot underground strip club. As one of the strippers gets the virus, she turns into a supernatural, flesh-eating zombie stripper, making her the hit of the club. Do the rest of the girls fight the temptation to be like the star stripper, even if there is no turning back?

"Zombie Strippers," written and directed by Jay Lee also stars Porn Queen and worldwide media sensation Jenna Jameson with co-stars Roxy Saint of the Goth band Roxy Saint and the Blackouts, and Ultimate Fighting Champion Tito Oritz.

"Zombie Strippers" is a sexy, bloody, hilarious good time coming to theaters on April 18, 2008.

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When did the undead start crawling from their graves in search of lunch? Just how hungry do you have to be to come back to life to fill your rotting stomach with living flesh? Pretty damn hungry, surely.

Cinema has followed the lurching gait of the zombie since the 1930’s to see where he was headed. It has marked his relentless pursuit of internal organs as a picnic treat and wallowed in his unhygienic table manners with fascinated repulsion from his first formal appearance in the Halperin Brothers’ White Zombie (1932).

To pay homage to that first zombie that crawled out of its grave and the motion pictures that have since come down the pike to showcase the undead brain-eaters the First Leeds Film Festival was born.

The next Leeds Zombie Film Festival takes place at the City Varieties on April 20th. Proceeds from the event will go toward the charitable foundation of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA).

Those Zombie obsessives, Dominic Brunt and Mark Charnock (Paddy and Marlon) are on hand having come out of their bunker for the festival after long musings about how to survive a zombie holocaust.

The movies presented at this year's event will be classics and new fare, giving fans of zombie culture a chance to see zombiedom from the past as well as more recent contributions, some well known and others quite obscure.

This Easter season The Leeds Young People's Film Festival (LYPFF) is looking to launch the annual event by working with Breeze to celebrate the completion of their new film "Zombies In Love" and LYPFF is offering up the exciting opportunity to be involved in trying to break the Guinness World Record TM for the largest Zombie gathering! All you need to do to take part is come along looking ghastly in Zombie make-up or costume (old clothes will do fine).

The gathering will take place on Millennium Square in the City Centre from 1pm where there'll be plenty of themed activities including Best Zombie competitions and a few surprises too.

To let LYPFF know that you are interested in coming and to find out more about Breeze go to www.breezeleeds.org/zombreeze.

Funded by the Youth Opportunities Fund

"They're coming to get you, Barbara!" 12in Collectors figure from the Horror Classic "Night of the Living Dead" approved by the actor himself, Bill Hinzman!

Deluxe Collectors figure! You get 4 heads, 2 B/W and 2 Color. Also included are 2 sets of interchangeable arms, B/W and color. Make him which ever version you prefer, without having to buy the figure twice.

Figure is packaged in a deluxe 4-color window box with a fifth panel. First in a series.

NOTE: Prototype Shown, final product and may differ slightly from images shown. For additional views of the figure.

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FarPoint Media is happy to announce the launching of its YouTube FarPoint Media Video Channel. The channel will highlight video entries and features from several of its groundbreaking podcast shows and websites.

The irreverent Wingin' It 3D blasted off with its first video last week pondering the many facets of preparing and eating chocolate covered cuttlefish.

Also seeing its premiere was the new weekly show "Slice of SciFi Video Headline News" with your news anchors Michael R. Mennenga and Brian Brown showcasing just some of the hundreds of top news stories featured on the Slice of SciFi website each week.

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