A gang of women on large motorcycles is travelling across the States. They arrive in a small town with just over a hundred residents and infiltrate it in various ways. Some hook up, some party, some tag, while others simply cause trouble. But what they don’t know is that the town’s local mad scientist, Ralph Willum (Don Calfa), has been conducting experiments and has recently brought a gang of the dead back to life.
The title itself pretty much says it all—a lighthearted film featuring scantily clad women and bloodthirsty zombies.
However, despite the title, there aren’t actually many scantily clad women in this film—not even a single bare breast. For a Troma film, this is quite unusual. But it’s worth noting that while this is a Troma production, it is not a Lloyd Kaufman film (the Toxic Avenger director). In other words, the film lacks the signature humour that The Toxic Avenger is known for. This is a Dan Hoskins film, and it also ended up being the last one he made. The film lacks the sharp humour we associate with Troma—not that it doesn’t attempt humour, but the jokes never quite land, making it a feeble effort at being funny without actually succeeding.
The acting in the film ranges from terrible to passable. The casting itself is actually decent. We have solid actors like Billy Bob Thornton, who unfortunately never gets a chance to shine, Don Calfa, who delivers a respectable performance, and best of all, Ed Gale—the dwarf actor best known for playing Chucky in the Child’s Play films. The dialogue is extremely poor, likely by design, but even here, the film fails, as the lines are neither funny nor cool, instead coming across as just tragic. “I may be a whore, but I ain’t no heathen,” says one of the biker women as she carries a cross out of the church they plan to blow up.
All in all, this is a film that bores more than it entertains.
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