A motorcycle-riding undertaker and his two biker pals create business for the funeral parlor by selecting a victim at random from the telephone book and gruesomely murdering them.

A private detective who has lost two secretaries to the gang pursues them, but is killed by a bomb left by the undertaker.

When acquired by Ted V. Mikels for a triple bill of the Italian horror movie The Embalmer and his own film The Corpse Grinders, he cut out the majority of the gore scenes and a sequence with Ray Dannis in drag as an old lady.

"[5] Police in Louisville, Kentucky confiscated a print of the film based on a local law which banned "the publication of materials dealing with bloodshed, lust or crime."

[1] In Clarksville, Indiana a local Parents-Teachers Association and a number of women's groups complained about the film, and the theater cancelled showings.