You’d think an impressionist Romanian playwright is about as far as you could get from the most Cormanesque, unashamed B movie premise of recent times, but the Internet Movie Database would have us believe Zombie Strippers was inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s play about people turning into rhinoceros’.

You couldn’t ordinarily term a movie beautiful where just two of the scenes contain an infirm body swathed in bandages being thrown from a hospital room window or a decapitated head sinking to the bottom of a swimming pool.

If you’re Mel Gibson and you’re going to tell the story of Jesus Christ in a movie, it doesn’t matter how sympathetic to any particular group you are, you’re going to whip up the biggest controversy in cinema so far in the 21st century.