- Adaptation Displacement - The movie is based on an episode of Masters of Horror called "Dance Of The Dead" which featured which also Robert Englund as the host of the zombie strip-club in an After the End American city.
- It is also proposed that is inspired by Eugene Ionesco's classic play "Rhinoceros".
- "Dance of the Dead", in return, displaced the original Richard Matheson story, "Dance of the Dead".
- Anvilicious - a nuclear anvil with knobs on
- Everybody Remembers the Stripper - a movie based almost entirely around this trope
- Nightmare Fuel:
- Ian's face dance
- When infected, the strippers start out looking and acting relatively normal, however over time they become more and more grotesque. Somehow, this draws more men to the club.