Nightmare Beach
1989 Directed by Umberto Lenzi
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Diablo is a biker gang leader executed for the murder of a young woman. A year after his death, it's time for Spring Break. Football players Skip and Ronnie head to the beach, where Skip meets Gail, the sister of the woman who was murdered a year ago. All the fun and glory of Spring Break, however, is about to turn into a living nightmare when a mysterious person in a biker outfit begins to kill people by electrocution. Could it be that Diablo has returned from the dead?
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A spring break slasher as befuddling as only Umberto Lenzi could make one. Jam packed with partying, nigh-geriatric teenagers and silly pranks, this could be mistaken for a cheapo summer comedy if it wasn't for the killer wearing a motorcycle helmet, the brutal electrocution deaths, the greasy peeping tom, John Saxon, boobies, Michael Parks and a ruthless gang named the Demons clad in leather jacking bearing their name in an immediately recognizable font. The jammin' music is the best part, the other stuff is fine too.
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There's much to be said about the fact this film, released under the title Welcome to Spring Break on DVD, came at the end of the 1980s, a decade defined by slasher films.
In one respect, the movie is a nod to the trashiness of the Friday the 13ths, the Sleepaway Camps, and the Elm Streets, that preceeded it.
In another respect, it's a carbon copy of cliches that came to fruition during the heyday of this type of horror film. With that considered, it's sometimes questionable whether the movie is being done with a straight face, or a confused one that isn't sure if it's serious or kidding.
For those reasons, Nightmare Beach or Spring Break goes down as…