Chrome Hearts

Plot synopsis:
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 the scientist later admits that the real reason he's been doing it is not the money, but 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!"). 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 mamas start hacking off zombie heads using chainsaws, baseball bats, welding torches, a garrotte and a staple gun.
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 being a henchman. With all the undead inside 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.

Tags: cult

Review:
If nothing else, the pure inventiveness of simply stapling a zombies mouth shut (He can't eat you if he can't open his mouth) is one of the best things I've seen in ages!The plot is, at best, thin.
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown is definitely one of those movies.
Blow me."  "If you were supposed to do normal things, God would have made you look like a normal person" (in reference to the ubiquitous midget...a necessity for a funny movie!).
And of course, a slide whistle theme song brilliantly used during the zombie scenes is essential as well.So, watch the movie.
Midgets, blind children, biker chicks and zombies.
However when the zombies escape the Cycle Sluts might be the only ones able to stop them.I didn't know anything about this film when I taped it.
The `chopper chicks' themselves are actually pretty cool and mostly pretty sexy/good looking  Gretchen Palmer being the cutest and most fresh faced (definitely not a woman who has ridden a motor bike across America!).
The most notably actor (but not for his performance) is Billy Bob Thornton, who must look back on this now and thank God that he has risen above this type of work.Overall, anyone watching Troma films should be ready for the low standards and lack of spark that generally come with them.
Worth watching if you've never seen a Troma film, but other than that it's not worth the bother and is about as sh*t as you'd expect..
I would recomend this moovie to anyone who wants to watch films of the living dead, zombies, vampires and the like.
A bus-load of blind orphans!This movie says something that I've been saying for a long time, there simply aren't enough movies about a gang of gay bikers (bikettes?) who have to attack a load of Zombies who could possibly threaten a whole town, not to mention the busload of blind orphans.If you liked TROMA'S other masterpieces such as TROMEO AND JULIET, or THE TOXIC AVENGER, this may be more to your tastes.
Obviously, if you liked this movie then you should check out the other two that I just mentioned.It's funny, if you can watch it in the right spirit..
How do you string together scenes of take-no-s*** lesbian bikers (some at any rate, others you-know-what), cheapo zombies, blind orphans, a dwarf, an incoherent mad scientist, and effects and side characters with only face-value interest?
The movie itself plays out like, basically, a biker movie with zombies, where plot- though there- never gets in the way of a trashy killing scene, and establishing shots of the dead ones put to weird carnival music (kazoo included).To describe the different character relationships would be moot; all need be known is that one biker is domineering/cowardly, another very attached to his man (Billy Bob Thornton, yes, ol' Billy Bob) up to a point, and one that doesn't get past any point becoming, basically, zombie bait.
It is of note that the man who starts up the zombies in the town, played by the great Return of the Living Dead alumni Don Calfa (included with fully weird eyes and a hick accent amid his Frankenstein mode), basically can't seem to control these things, even as the townspeople almost don't give a damn ('eh, they're family' they say).
It makes me grin seeing the back of the cover, perhaps in an all too ironic way, at seeing this movie compared to Seven Samurai, even just in "shades" as the critic says.Along with being camp it's really an example of flawed but pure exploitation film-making.
And coming from Troma, a film company that will churn out almost anything in similar capacities that porno movies do, it's definitely not a bad entry.
The biker chicks are convincing enough, even as writer/director Hoskins does a flair for the dramatic (i.e. long close-up on the lead biker chick as she prepares to flame up some zombies in the big brawl in the streets), and the oddities help bring so much to laugh at, unintentional or not, that it's hard to find stuff wrong with it on such so-bad-it's-good grounds.
It's far from being exactly memorable as a genre film, but for its time it does deliver some stupid fun, with a 60's or 70's biker movie formula wedging in room for both cool and ludicrous living-dead movie set-ups.
If you're a fan of zombies...well you better go rent or buy this movie!enjoy.
We've got motorcycle babes, townsfolk, a busload of blind orphans, and a dwarf all fighting zombies in a run-down mining town.
Note to genre buffs:  I came to the same conclusion of an earlier reviewer that this film is a comedic combination of O'Bannon's Dead and Buried and Hammer's Plague of the Zombies..
A load of biker chicks end up in a town where zombies roam aboutThat's it; plenty of gore, no nudity, and a very early performance by Billy Bob Thornton!I suppose the best one can say is that's it only 80 minutes long.
Linnea Quigley did not return, but would have been perfect for the biker's leader, Rox. Earl Boen(Dr. Silberman from the Terminator trilogy), Billy Bob Thornton(redneck in many movies), Lewis Arquette(father of Patricia, Rosanna, and David), and Hal Sparks(from Queer As Folk and Dude Where is My Car?) all appear.
great fun for those who love bad movies.
The beginning of the film is slow and takes a while to get going, but when the 'zombies' (which look like they are just people the crew pulled of the street) go after the girls, after being let out from a Cave (Believe it!) you can't help but laugh at the stupid ways the 'Cycle Sluts' kill the creatures.
Any film with a midget shooting zombies and an unexplained buss-full of blind teenagers who help save the day has to be seen to be believed!
Biker women who can't act too good ride into town and end up fighting off a whole bunch of really pitiful looking zombies.
This movie is about as trashy as you can get, but is good entertainment.Very athletic and slightly mannish but not butch women ride into town on their very nice looking motor cycles, not knowing that this town's mortician is making zombies out of corps.
Soon they find out the gory truth when they encounter the mortician and the zombies that have escaped from the hidden cave.Plot is really thin, as there are not much more to it than what the title suggests, but there's story to each scene, and they play it to the max.
I liked the humor of the story and the gusto the chicks displayed at every scene.This was pretty good entertainment, but definitely not for everyone.
From then on, you would expect an exciting zombie showdown horror movie, but no, understandably it takes an enormously long time for the zombies to reach Zariah.
When the zombies *finally* come marching in, the townsfolk actually hire the biker chicks to exterminate them, because the walking corpses are all deceased family members and/or highly respected former community members and killing them would be just too painful.
There exist very few good reasons to seek out this obscure 80's film, expect maybe to witness one of the first roles of Billy Bob Thornton as one of the chicks' hard- drinking rednecks.
All the elements that make a great B-Movie are here--a soap star(Jamie Rose), a great character actor (Don Calfa), a future star (Billy Bob Thornton), and Lewis Arquette as a cop.
For a celebration of zombie B-Movies, check out The Dead Hate the Living.
Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town is a great movie title and the disc is a must have for the B-movie collector, but not a great zombie film or a great B-movie..
This movie had everything, Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance, Motorcycles, Lesbians, a Musical number, Mad Scientists, Midgets, Zombies, Blind Orphans, and most especially, CHEESE!
Lots and lots of cheese!This movie doesn't just fall into the 'so bad it's good' genre; it pretty much defines it.
Right from the beginning we see the Biker Gang that the movie revolves around get berated by their leader "You're the Sluts!
Try to act like it!" From there, the Sluts are let loose in yet another small town, not realizing that this is Zombietown, run by the evil Mad Scientist and his Midget henchman.
It does so with nary a look back, and not a scrap of good taste.If you like cheese, this is the movie for you..
The beginning of Chopper Chicks seems pretty cool - a half decent song playing to bikers, until we get a closer shot and see that these are women who have never ridden a bike in their lives.
It amazes me how people can make films as bad as this, my fifteen minute college zombie flick creams this, and that was on a budget of £2.
Avid fans of troma films will enjoy this slice of adventure but the normal, minded film follower will be disapointed in the poor acting and relatively stupid plot.The plot is simple zombies run amok in a town were the Biker chicks attempt save the last few remaining none zombies.
Although this film doesn't fail in the campy department, it never once elicits a single entertaining quality.The plot centers around eight biker women, with only one of them able to passed off as a "chick", who stop in a small town for some "meat", but become meat for a group of zombie miners.It was interesting to see a pre-Simple Plan Billy Bob Thornton, but he looks and acts exactly the same as he does now.For quality campy horror/comedy entertainment, visit all of Charles Band's friends at Full Moon Entertainment.
The people behind this movie should be butchered like the zombies in the film.
Just when i thought id seen the worst of the worst someone gives me a copy of Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town.
Five minutes into the movie i knew it was going to be one of the worst horror films id ever see.
NOTE TO FILMMAKERS: A GOOD WOMEN BIKER MOVIE CANNOT BE MADE!!
This is yet another movie, in a long line of films distributed by Troma, that was destined for failure.
Unfortunately, while Jamie Rose was definitely worth watching, there was simply no way she was going to save this film all by herself.
When the undead escape from their confines, and not only threaten the townsfolk but also a bus-load of blind orphans, The Cycle Sluts—an all-female gang of bikers—tool up and kick zombie ass.Chopper Chicks In Zombie Town is a fairly typical slice of late-80s garbage from Troma, where once again it seems as though more effort went into thinking up the title than in making the actual film.Rather than an awesome, action-packed tale featuring scorching hot, leather clad babes unleashing gory hell on legions of the undead (which would be very cool), writer/director Dan Hoskins gives viewers a rather motley gang of big-haired greaser chicks who spend more time bickering amongst themselves, having casual sex, randomly breaking into song (the Cycle Sluts' lesbian leader Rox, played by Catherine Carlen, performs an impromptu number), and arguing with small-minded locals than they do actually fighting zombies.As is the case with most Troma flicks, the script is absolutely dire, the characterisation non-existent, the special effects cheap and nasty, and the acting third rate (even from the film's 'star', Billy Bob Thornton).
However, if you're a casual trash-movie fan finding yourself tempted by the outrageous title, be warned: watching this kind of stuff can do more damage to your brain than a hungry zombie..
"Chopper Chicks in Zombietown" is such an excellent film!!!!!Before we had other movies with such action-packed ladies like "Tomb Raider" and "Charlie's Angels," this movie had just that action.
I mean, why would anyone want to miss out on a movie with lots of action, lots of horror, plus girls, girls, girls!!!!!, evil monsters, a dark and broody atmosphere, and Harley Davidsons roaming the streets like they own them!!!!!I must say, you guys, men especially, are missing out on such a fantastic and sweet treat such as this!!!!!Watch this great film immediately!!!!!
"Chopper Chicks in Zombietown" is a whole lot of fun and definitely a guilty pleasure entry.**SPOILERS**Riding into a small town, Dede, (Jamie Rose) Rox, (Catherine Carlen) T.C., (Lycia Naff) Jewel, (Vicki Frederick) Jojo, (Kristina Loggia) Rusty, (Gretchen Palmer) Tanya, (Nina Sonja Peterson) and Lucille, (Whitney Reis) members of an all-girl biker gang, find themselves treated with scorn from the townspeople.
From the fact that the film deals with the headstrong females, who take to leather, motorbikes and the general kind of attitudes one would expect among those who do it for a living as they do, which just makes it all the more camp.
Some other scenes of the campy attitude come from the inclusion of the wise-cracking blind kids and their encounters with the zombies, which are actually nicely done and come off as great comedic relief.
There's really only two big action scenes in the film and both are in the later half, but the fact that it doesn't get boring in the beginning is a nice touch and makes it far more enjoyable otherwise.
The film also manages to put in some nice action scenes with the zombies, which is a great way to help this one.
As well, there's also the way in which this one has it's action scenes merge into one big fight at the end, starting with the burning house sequence, where they battle the zombies and make a great escape before being confronted by the irate townspeople before dealing with them from then on by themselves, it allows for a ton of excitement and entertainment through these scenes.
Also quite hard to overcome will be the film's rather hard to understand plot-line with how the zombies got released.
Another great exploitation title, another boring film from the Troma stable.
The poor acting, over-reliance on dated '80s rock music and lack of budget in terms of sets/costumes/special effects/actors help to sink this one from the beginning.Now, you may have noticed the word "zombie" in this title's genre description.
I never thought I would see a film that made ROTLD2 look like a work of genius by comparison, but here it is.
Every time the zombies appear on screen, comedy music plays in this film, complete with a sound effect of someone laughing uproariously.
The only fun comes from spotting a pre-stardom Billy Bob Thornton in a supporting role (looking embarrassed) and THE TERMINATOR's Earl Boen in a cameo as a mad zombie butcher.The first hour of this film consists of many melodramatic confrontations, disagreements and fights between the biker girls, which really cause the plot to idle in neutral for a very long, boring time.
Troma presents biker babes with attitudes, a desert town of both hostile locals and their redneck zombie family members, a mad(..mad, mad, mad, mad)scientist, a dwarf, and blind orphans..yep, it's CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIE TOWN.
Well, soon, the chopper chicks find themselves endangered by not only the town's citizenry, but an army of flesh-eating zombies..they'll have to stop fighting amongst themselves in order to contend with their numerous developing challenges.Zombie goremedy headlined by the wonderfully bug-eyed hammy theatrics of the great Don Calfa(Return of the Living Dead)as the demented scientist out to control an entire town, Ralph Willum.
Little man, Ed Gale(Chucky of Child's Play, and Howard the Duck personified)is Bob Littleton, Willum's victimized assistant who soon joins forces with the biker gals.Those familiar with these types of zombie comedies know what to expect..flesh-eating, limbs and other parts ripped from bodies, sight gags regarding the undead associating themselves with items they once belonged to when alive, etc.
The film's music score, when the zombies are shown canvasing the area around the town, is very goofy and the tone is quite loopy..kind of a RETURN TO HORROR HIGH vibe, to use an example.
Showstopping image could be the "flaming zombie bride" ignited from the flare gun, fired by Rox. Anyone entering a film such as this expecting anything more than an entertaining bad movie will be sorely disappointed..it's no surprise Kaufmann and Hertz distributed it under their Troma moniker..
Chopper Chicks In Zombie Town is the typical Troma mix of light horror, adventure and bad gags.
Romero!Back to the review proper:  'Chopper Chicks' also has themes/moments similar to two much better zombie films namely Dead & Buried and The Plague Of Zombies.
I won't mention the Dead & Buried link as it would overtly spoil that film.*spoilers*Suffice to say I was not particularly impressed with 'Chopper Chicks'.
There isn't even a confrontation between him and the biker women.But 'Chopper Chicks' is also a comedy-adventure so the horror aspect could take second place.
Best Zombie film ever????....
Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town (1989)Starring: Jamie Rose, Catherine Carlen, Lycia Naff and starring Academy Award Winner Billy Bob Thornton Synopsis: A female biker gang riding around America come across a small town where recently a few accidents have taken place and the residents have killed.
Review: From the title and synopsis, you'd be right in thinking this isn't a high valued film or even a serious one, it is a comedy-horror and it is in fact let down by its own writing.
The film opens of the gang making their way down an open highway, just outside a small village a boy breaks into a deserted mine entrance and finds a room of zombies who feed on him and escape to slowly make their way to town, there 'homes'.
In the town the biker gang go for some food, a garage to fix one of the bikes, stumbles across an ex-husband (Thornton, who didn't win his Academy Award for this film) and generally looking for a bit of fun and get themselves into a fight all before they leave.