This doddering parody of zombie movies has more in common with Jerry Warren than George Romero, with a relentlessly static camera and threadbare sets capturing local TV station-type interviews of the people involved in a "Z Girl" living dead beauty pageant. Set in a time after a zombie invasion has been tamed by the living and where the remaining undead are exploited, there is some humor in the concept of a TV network dedicated to a dead girl competition in singing, acting, etc. Unfortunately, ZOMBIE BEAUTY PAGEANT fails to exploit those possibilities, weighed down by a script that runs out the clock with a talkathon featuring smirking, hey-don't-look-at-the-camera performances. The zombie girls aren't threatening enough to be scary, and we never see much of the pageant itself. The in-jokes and unfunny asides made by the inept cast are equal in artistry to the slow motion direction. Apparently, there is an entire Z-movie series that should be avoided like a zombie plague.