Sin in Movies

Dim the lights and roll the drums...Sin in Mobtown's first movie review! While this movie has nothing to do with Baltimore it has lots of strippers in a seedy club. While you watch Zombie Strippers keep in mind the scratch houses of the 1960's and 70's filled with rats, roaches and desperate men. The girls entered the stage and quickly stripped down to pasties and g-strings amidst cat calls and slobbering men before grabbing their slinky clothes and rushing backstage. While there may have been no literal zombie strippers, those girls lived a life wiggling for a few bucks until the end of a shift and then hitting the bars on The Block to seduce men into paying a few more bucks for their services. Think about that while you watch Zombie Strippers and the movie will feel just like it was filmed on Baltimore Street.

Zombie Strippers is a film starring Jenna Jameson and written and directed by Jay Lee . Jenna finally looks a lot better than some of those refugee shots of her floating around the internet. Robert Englund, of Freddie Kruger fame, stole the entire movie with his outrageous portrayal of a purple velvet suit wearing strip club owner obsessed with earning money and saving his ass. His acting saved a lot of otherwise poorly written and terribly acted moments. This was a zombie movie and not intended to be presented to The Academy for consideration. Director and writer Jay Lee threw in an unnecessary dose of Nietzsche and political jabs at George W., but he got every bit of zombie stripper *movie clips 5 & 6 correct. Lee understood that these girls weren't spoken word performers but masters of the pole and 10 inch heels. He let the majority of the film encompass super hot strip teases and topless stripper tiffs behind the scenes. The zombie virus affected Jenna and her super stripper pals pulling flesh from bone and glassy eyes an eerie black. Oozing death the girls used their super zombie tricks to whip around the pole at inhuman speeds. The make-up was top-notch and the creation of sentient female zombies moved the plot along in very interesting ways I have yet to see in a zombie film. Overall, I haven't stopped thinking about this movie as a great and super creative zombie adventure. I laughed hysterically start to finish. All you can hope to expect is 1. hot naked chicks  2. sweet strip scenes 3. kick ass zombies 4. gratuitous filth and gore. I rate it right up there as a Sinful Perfection. Thank you Jay Lee!

But....don't have to take my word for it.

N.Y. Times Review

Rotten Tomatoes Review

Cinematical Review

The Little Wins...

Sitting in my little cubby at the B level of the John's Hopkins University library with only sharp fluorescent lights to guide my thoughts I made a jack pot discovery. I uncovered a book detailing the history of Baltimore's movie theaters. The first movies appeared on The Block in the early 19th century. This book must logically be an excellent account of early Baltimore Street and if I am lucky the author threw in the scratch houses as well (scratch house -  nickname for an adult movie house on The Block / the lice and filth in the theater left men scratching themselves when they left- gross!) Robert Headley Jr. and his book Exit: A History of Movies in Baltimore self-published in 1974 now sells online for no less than 300 dollars and up to over 1,000 due to its rarity and academic value. While the book is available to buy on several websites JHU does not have a single copy in their world famous library. The kind Information Man told me that it isn't there because it doesn't fit into their specialty categories of Science and Engineering. My joy was not hidden as I proudly told tell him about Blaze Starr and her movie Blaze Starr Goes Nudist and her famous smoking couch routine. He laughed to cover the fact that he was blushing like a pretty pig pink.

Consider it awesome that this stuffy name dropping nervous breakdown factory overlooked the one subject I have dedicated to my historical future. I would feel dirty and broken down if Hopkins had already sent their research pit bulls on the topic because a girl like me wouldn't stand a chance.

Enoch Pratt Free Library and their stunning Maryland Room rule again as their online catalog reveals 3 copies. I intend to speed over and lovingly read each page of Headley's precious work. Underground history may produce more frustration than content on occasion, but today's silly win keeps me going. It's helpful to know that some ideas are yet to be taken.

The original movie theaters on The Block represented a source of great pride for the city. They established the rich history of entertainment Baltimore Street would be infamously known. Stay tuned for some amazing and fascinating history of The Block as I unfold these pieces. Please send pieces of your own to sininmobtown@gmail.com.