The film is about an all female motorcycle gang named the ‘Cycle-Sluts’ who cruise into the isolated town of Zariah looking for a good time. Here an evil scientist turned mortician has been killing local townspeople with the aid of his long suffering dwarf assistant (“If god wanted you to do normal things, he would have made you look like normal people”) and turning them into zombies to use as labor at an abandoned mine. The mine is too radioactive after underground nuclear testing to be mined by living people. Although he later admits that the real reason he’s been doing it isn’t the money, it’s because he’s just plain mean.

The zombies escape after a curious little boy removes the lock to explore the mine, becoming the zombies’ first victim (“daddy, is that you? Aaaiiigh!” heheh, funny stuff). Around this point we meet another one of the parties involved, a bus-load of blind orphans, who are stranded just on the outskirts of town as their ride breaks down. Luckily their bus-driver always keeps an Uzi on the bus ‘for sentimental reasons’.

With vague memories of life to guide them, the zombies eventually find their way back to town and begin devouring live flesh. Going against the wishes of their leader and despite some rough treatment from the locals earlier in the film, the Cycle-Sluts ride to the rescue. Driven by a combination of personal history with Zariah, maternal instinct and possibly even a little true love the bad-ass moma’s start hacking off zombie heads using chainsaws, baseball bats, welding torches and a garrott.

In the final scene the Cycle Sluts use fresh meat to lure the remaining zombies to the town church, which they have packed with dynamite. They are now aided by the doctor’s dwarf who has decided that there are better lines of work than henchman. With all the undead on-board and the church sealed up the timer goes off and the church goes up in flames, zombies and all. The Cycle sluts are rewarded with a sack full of cash and induct the dwarf and several of the blind orphans as honorary Cycle-Sluts. They then ride out of town with some of the men folk in tow (their new ‘bitches’) and throw the sack of money to the wind.
Some cool trivia. Early in the movie the Cycle Sluts leader performs a song in the local bar (‘Do what your big mama told ya’). This is an original song written for the film and is pretty catchy (kind of reminiscent of Joan Jett). Another good piece of music is the zombies theme, which is almost like an eastern European marching hymn combined with a slide whistle and the sound of man laughing merrily.

This movie was filmed at a real town and the actual locals were somewhat unappreciative of the noise generated by the motorcycles and the film crew. Several locals actually fired pot-shots at the crew with live ammunition in an attempt to scare them, and Billy Bob Thornton was personally threatened with a knife held to his throat.

This movie features Billy Bob Thornton before he became famous and it also features former MTV veejay Martha Quinn.