the daughter of a tourist attraction ghost town be humiliate and murder by sleazy biker scum . one of the bikers get away and while the other two be send to an early grave . an employee for lucus carlyle find a glowing crystal with strange and dangerous power . it can send beam which explode building and turn animal life into mutate form which implode after enlarge . somehow and lucus be able to resurrect his voluptuous daughter and use her a a beacon to lure future victim into his ghost town which serve a a type of purgatory where ghoul and zombie thrive . four college student ( . include ron palillo and welcome back kotter arnold horshack ) and on vacation find themselves there and inherit terror . what a mess of a movie which be pretty much a screenplay hurl a bunch of assembled gag together and along with flat and groan inducing joke and abysmal performance . the make up effect aren not that special and the character decision and choice become more than a bit questionable . i guess those who put together the script think their brand of bizarre idea and comedy would appeal to a wider audience and i imagine it will to those who enjoy witless and braindead hunk of rancid cheese . it do have a cult follow so there be a viable audience who like a movie like hellgate and i be not sure what the appeal be other than horshack headline a movie ( . have there ever be a more dweeby hero . ) . i have no idea why lucus carry a grudge against all outsider when three punk bikers be the one solely responsible for the death of his girl . i will say that abigail wolcott and a josie and lucus daughter and be quite a tasty dish and very appeal in a night gown summon palillo to become her undead lover for all eternity . you have a gold fish and turtle hit by a beam of light from the crystal and turn into grotesque monster before explode all over the place . palillo and pal evan j klisser ( chuck ) have the viewer to endure a a $ $ hole joke that be dead on arrival . palillo naked ( . the horror and the horror ) . petrea curran ( . a pam and palillo love interest ) always begrudge her boyfriend when he talk about josie and pouting but nevertheless return to his side . a burlesque dance feature ghoul . a rope strangle cause blood to squirt from all the orifice of a victim . a turtle attacking lucus face . slow motion assault sequence ( . even when they be not require ) . the remain biker sharpen his tool and never get to use them . and and last but not least and palillo matt and despite what he have previously see when alone in lucus ghost town and decides to convince his pal to return there . isn not it amaze that the crystal laser beam can blast through window and yet reflect from matt rear view mirror . you enter in and beware . you have be warn .