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acidburn-10 "Nightmare Beach a.k.a Welcome To Spring Break" is an interesting addition to the 80's slasher genre in many ways, firstly the beginning where we have a guy executed for the murder of a local girl, then swearing revenge that he'll return to punish everyone involved, is certainly interesting. Then shortly after a leather glad biker is randomly picking off youngsters on spring break by mainly electrocution, is certainly quite different to the usual stalk and slash deaths of this decade and could have offered something fresh and original, but it doesn't and rather quickly becomes standard and by numbers, which isn't a bad thing but it does border on bland at times.But given the fact that this movie was done by an Italian director, who is known for over the top kills and thrills, and adding in sleaze, this movie doesn't really have any of that. Instead it seems rather unfocused and there are just too many sub plots that don't go anywhere and the deaths of random characters that aren't very memorable in the first place to care about. The first half of the film is very underwhelming and light on momentum, and by the time the gore rolls in is a saving grace and the mystery element does work, as there are a few suspects to choose from and some of the deaths are quite nasty and inventive, but the endless scenes of college kids getting drunk just isn't interesting enough and gets tiresome rather quickly.It's always nice to see a familiar face in these movies though and that is John Saxon who does give an interesting and menacing turn as the local policeman, but seems rather bored at times and going through the motions, but despite all that he does give by far the best turn, but his earlier work is far better (Black Christmas, A Nightmare On Elm Street & Tenebre). But the same cannot be said of the two main leads Nicolas De Toth who's about as fun as a wet fish and very wooden and Sarah Buxton who's very beautiful but shows no range.All in all "Nightmare Beach" comes nowhere near to becoming a slasher classic, but it's still okay and it does have some tense moments that make it better than the usual late 80's slasher movie.

rael This juicy slice of summer happens to be one of the most professional Italian movies made on US soil. You get young people partying, 80s metal non stop, wet t-shirt contests, pretty girls making a buck or two on the side with older gents, sharply dressed biker gang, shady local government figures, and a leather-clad masked killer who offs everybody in high voltage fashion. The story isn't very special, a beach town biker gang leader gets fried on electric chair, while John Saxon the sheriff and Michael Parks the doctor see to it. BTBGL's last words consist of a vow to avenge his own death. Later it's summertime and horny young people start turning up dead. Amidst all this two friends ride into town to join the party. Will it all turn out well? This film is one of the most watchable slashers out there. It's so well made, well paced and well acted (well, it's campy but not horrible) that it almost qualifies for a "feel-good slasher". You might not like it if you're a "gore hound" and only want to see people suffer, because here everybody's having fun.

udar55 Perpetually depressed Spring Breaker Skip (Nicolas De Toth) heads to Florida with his buddy to try and forget blowing the biggest football game of his college career. Too bad for him everyone in Miami not only saw the game, but recognizes him on the spot. As if feeling like a social pariah in the 80s isn't bad enough, there is also a killer cruising around the beach on a motorcycle killing any immoral party animals. Sheriff Strycher (John Saxon) thought he just witnessed the killer be executed by the State but now it looks like he will have to work some more. Meanwhile, Skip teams up with bartender Gail (Sarah Buxton), whose sister was murdered by the alleged killer, to do their own detective work.More 80s Italian Florida-filmed madness. This one easily trumps stuff like Miami HORROR because 1) it is an amazing time capsule of 80s spring break and 2) it isn't boring! Sure, you will know who the killer is within 30 minutes and their motives are questionable (are pulling practical jokes or hitchhiking really death worthy sins?), but it is hardly the worst slasher of the decade. Director Umberto Lenzi doesn't seem too bothered with details (how is it that Saxon shows up right before a fight anywhere in the county), but the electrocution murders are well staged. He delivered another beach themed flick the following year with HITCHER IN THE DARK. Amazingly, leads Buxton and De Toth both went on to have successful careers after this. She has done tons of work on soap operas and he - hold onto your seats - edited T3, LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD and WOLVERINE! No doubt working with Lenzi shaped their young minds. Co-starring Michael Parks and Lance LeGault.

lost-in-limbo The leader of the biker gang "The Demons" is convicted for murder and is electrocuted in the electric chair. Before he dies, he yells that he'll take revenge on the town. But the beach community main focus for now is the truck load of college students making their way there for "Spring break". Although, things turn bad when the biker's body is now missing from its grave and a serial killer biker has hit the scene and is killing teenagers. This leaves a depressingly good-guy collage football player and a barmaid to figure out who's behind the killings, while the authorities try to cover it up so it doesn't spoil business.SPRING BREAK! Time to riot and be completely idiotic! When watching this, I was thinking that I was going to get mostly a slasher film, but Umberto Lenzi (who's going by Harry Kirkpatrick for the occasion) seemed more occupied with the pointlessly low-brow partying. I thought this aspect would be more in the background, but instead it came to the forefront. This costs the mystery element of the story with Porky's-Revenge of the Nerds II antics winning out.This low-budget, b-grade effort is pretty much a loudly obnoxious copy and paste slasher/goofball item that recycles the usual stereotypes, clichés and red herrings with less than desirable results. These tools are laid on thick… very thick. This goes for the token characters, which the camera seems to follow about. You got the thief, prankster, misguided girl conning older men out of their doe, loud-mouth lout, peeping tom, sex-crazed dope, mopey football player, trouble makers (bikers here), Rev.'s skank daughter and the list just goes on… and on. Random characters simply come and go in a stereotypical mish mash. I don't mind this, if it didn't uninterestingly drag, which I found it to do. These certain aspects and gimmicks involving these different characters do get tired, like the thief constantly stealing money and everyone believing the prankster's gags. In no time you're thinking how can they keep on falling for it? Everything about this side of the story was so heavy handed, predictable and one-dimensional in its build-up that when it came to "who-dunnit" slasher development it just falls flat on its back.The cardboard premise is chocker block with possibilities as it goes all over the place in what it wants to be and a tepidly dismal script offers very little help. The red herrings are poorly justified and unbelievable that you can see who it is miles before it's even revealed and there are coincidences' too many. Lenzi's statically lazy direction can hardly raise an ounce of sweat with weak attempts of suspense, but there are few effective touches amongst the dross and his pacing is quite stable. Make-up special effects are tolerable enough, but the gore is pretty much missing, as most of the violence involves victims being burnt to a crisp after being electrocuted by the killer/or bike. Yep, bike! They are quite original, but still these buzzing jolts are weakly handled and simply risible in the execution of the deaths. Most of the time he just happens to be there, just like many of the other characters. So there's a high suspension of disbelief needed. The smashingly uproarious rock score by Claidio Simonetti sticks in many heavy metal cues with plenty of impact and with the guidance of some striking cinematography works its way in.The acting throughout is mainly poor. Gladly the capable presence of John Saxon shines through. His snarlingly hard-ass and slimly performance as the police chief adds much needed class to the rest of the fumbling performances. Michael Parks is features briefly in an amusing alcoholically twitchy doctor/coroner and Lance LeGault scornfully chews up the scenery as the priest. Nicolas De Toth makes for a sluggishly vapid heroine and the foxy Sarah Buxton's fine performance adds the much need sparks in their pairing."Welcome to Spring Break" is averagely plain, which in the final product I didn't find to be as fun as it could have been. More mindless fodder to an overpopulated trend.