A military-themed chicken fast food restaurant called "American Chicken Bunker" is built on an ancient Indian burial ground (and we all know how pissed off dead Indians can get). A group of non-Indian (with the exception of a "Chief What's His Face") protesters disagrees with its construction, calling it desecration, and surround the restaurant with signs that say things like "Chicken Killers" and "I Love Cock!" written on them.
Arby is a huge dork who is stoned and really just wants something to eat, finds his ex-girlfriend Wendy there making a unique protest of her own... as a lesbian, making out with her new and very butch girlfriend Mickey. Specifically involved in a protest group called C.L.A.M. (college lesbians against mega-conglomerates). To get her goat, Arby goes in and gets a job, hopefully making riches and bitches part of his long-term goal to get back at Wendy.
Soon strange things begin to occur in the restaurant. Instead of grade-A eggs, a bunch of green slimy pulsating vein-covered eggs are being served to the hapless customers. The restaurant's representative/mascot "The General" shows up to do some damage control... and some shameless promoting in the form of a song. Oh yeah, did I mention that it's a musical?
Restaurant manager Denny tries to keep things under control but fails miserably when an employee name Paco Bell gets pushed into a "beaks and claws grinder" by a possessed chicken carcass and splatters the walls with blood, which Denny tries to convince people is just artistic wallpaper.
Pretty soon, anyone who eats at the restaurant becomes possessed by homicidal chicken spirits. The restaurant, now under siege, has only Arby and Wendy, who've now made up since her new lesbian lover has proven to just be there because she's screwing The General, to save the world from chicken zombies. It turns out that alcohol kills them for some reason, so Wendy finds a keg and only after calling her a "fucking drunk", does Arby figure out her plan. Wendy melts the hoard of chicken zombies with her beer, they escape only to flee in a stolen car, hit another car, flip over and finally crash and burn.
Shocking as it is to say, this really is one of Troma's better movies. There are lots of great cock jokes, plenty of gore, and completely ridiculous circumstances. And even more shocking is the fact that the songs are actually not that bad, well-written, funny, and almost catchy! I even bought the soundtrack on CD, yes I'm that old. And if you haven't noticed by now, everybody's names are taken from fast-food restaurants... Arby, Wendy, Mickey (McDonald's) The General (The Colonel), Denny, etc. Terrible but funny jokes, loads of inappropriateness, and more cultural awkwardness than I thought were possible to squeeze into one film. Great fun!
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