Steve and Ann Bundy move into an expensive new apartment after the husband gets a big pay raise. Unfortunately, Steve's soon stricken with a mysterious ailment and becomes bedridden. Unable to find employment, and with the bills piling up, Ann runs into a seedy pimp who suggests a way in which she could make a lot of money in a short time.

Radioactive waste dumped off the coastline creates mutant monsters. The beasts attack slumber parties, beaches, tourists, and terrorize a waterfront community as a scientist, his daughter, her boyfriend and the local police try to find a way to stop them.