Austin Strip Clubs: It’s a zeitgeist: Zombieland keeps genre fresh
Columbus and Tallahassee — everyone in the movie is named for their favorite town — meet up with two smart con-gal sisters, Wichita (Stone of Superbad and The House Bunny) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin of Little Miss Sunshine). Soon they are all on the road together, trying to avoid zombies in their search for Twinkies and a better place to live.
“The zombies are really secondary,” Eisenberg says. “The movie is more about Zombieland, this crazy world where occasionally dead people come out and chase you. So, like, it made an environment you could do a lot of fun things with.”
Actually, Eisenberg has slightly misspoken. In most zombie movies the ghoulish creatures are dead people reanimated by various devices such as voodoo (I Walked With A Zombie) or radiation (the original Night of the Living Dead) or a plague (Dawn of the Dead).
“Our zombies aren’t dead, they’re alive,” Stone says. “It’s a disease that’s spread and made them cannibalistic.”
Dead or alive, they are pretty disgusting, from a stripper chasing customers down the block to little girls at a birthday party going after Mama, teeth gnashing.