Welcome to Spring Break (1988) AKA Nightmare Beach

Welcome to Spring Break (1988) SLASHER/SPRING BREAK MOVIE ! Directed by Harry Kirkpatrick AKA Umberto Lenzi

Watched this one last night on Amazon instant view and it's a lot of fun. This was another one I had forgotten about, but it's definitely a classic. Lots of T&A and gory death scenes and other beach fun !
WATCH TRAILER HERE

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?
Heads bursting into flames, vigilante priests, and John Saxon. What do these things all have in common? Cinema gold! This film includes such memorable scenes as the overweight, drunk college football fan who jumps into the backseat of the Florida star quarterback's convertible yelling, "Yeah, gators!" Also, one cannot omit the exceptional scene in which the Florida wide receiver attempts to pick a fight with the psycho priest. The wide receiver touches the priests motorcycle and his head instantly bursts into flames.

AVAILABLE ON DVD HERE AVAILABLE ON DEMAND HERE

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JUST BEFORE DAWN Another Lost Classic from 1981

Discovered this one last night on You Tube (its all in one file !) and watched it on my Tivo very good quality for youtube and a great lost classic slasher !
Just Before Dawn (1982) WATCH FOR FREE ON YOU TUBE HERE (GOOD QUALITY)
Five youths set out for a weekend camping excursion, to drink, frolic and skinny-dip on an isolated piece of land one of them has inherited. Despite ominous warnings of local forest Rangers, strange backwoods families and a hollering drunken hunter claiming to have witnessed his friends’ evisceration by the hands of "DEMONS", they trek farther into the foliage. Beautifully shot, extremely eerie, featuring the most demented murderer since Jason Voorhees, and a horrifying twist that will make you wonder...Will any of them survive those dark hours JUST BEFORE DAWN? AVAILABLE ON DVD HERE

Trivia :

The original script included a sixth camper named Eileen, who dies when she is thrown off of a cliff. It also included a climax involving Connie being forced to handle rattlesnakes by the in-bred villains.
The title of the original screenplay was 'The Last Ritual'. The title was changed after the scripts heavy religious theme was axed and the story was rigorously revised.
Director Jeff Lieberman cites Deliverance (1972) as the films primary influence.
Actor Chris Lemmon was performing a truly dangerous stunt when he was shot clinging to ropes after his fall into the rushing river. Lemmon had to psychically hang on to the ropes for a time as the powerful river pulled at him. Only a matter of feet from him was the top of a huge waterfall that was quite infamous for fatal falls.
Director Jeff Lieberman said that countless strangers showed up at the filming location on the day that the scene of Jamie Rose swimming topless was to be filmed. Lieberman said that word of this shoot had apparently gotten out among the local forest rangers.
According to director Jeff Lieberman despite the numerous reviews of Just Before Dawn that have implied it was inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) or The Hills Have Eyes (1977), he had not seen either film at the time of making Just Before Dawn.
The eerie whistling motif heard in Brad Fiedel's music score is a reference to the rescue whistle that Warren carries in the film.
Despite its authentic, weathered appearance the 'old' church house used in the film was actually built for the production.
According to composer Brad Fiedel many of the ominous sounds in the music score were actually electronically-altered audio clips of himself vocalizing droning noises.

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New Sci Fi / Horror Blog started, getting back to my roots ! These are the films that started my love of Horror and Sci Fi before I settled on the 80's as my favorite decade ( probably because I grew up in the 80's ) These are some great movies, Check it out....

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My Best Friend is a Vampire (The Lost Collection) (1988)

My Best Friend is a Vampire (The Lost Collection) (1988)

Let's face it - to many people, vampirism isn't all the horror it's made out to be, it's just an alternative lifestyle! You drink a bit of blood and get to live ten times longer than anyone else. Nothing to it. At least that's what Jeremy Capello thinks when he gets a little deeper than the average love-bite from a hot date. Before he knows it, his reflection in the bathroom mirror has vanished; he can't stand the smell of garlic; and he's developed an overwhelming passion for raw steak. Things don't seem to bad until a crazed vampire-hunter starts chasing him. A classic 80s horror-comedy now available on DVD.

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Slaughter High (The Lost Collection) (1985)

Slaughter High (The Lost Collection) (1985) CLICK FOR MORE INFO OR TO ORDER

Eight different people are invited to a five-year high school reunion at their now closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, awaits to take revenge.

There's Horror in the Halls... Lynching in the Lunchroom... Murder in Metal Shop. I always remember this movie for the scene where the guy chugs a beer filled with acid and it eats through his guts !

A poster of "Pieces" (1982) is visible on the Porno Movie Manager's office wall when he's talking with Carol over the phone.
Star Caroline Munro was actually 36 years old during this film where she played a 'teenage' heroine.
The films working title was "April Fool's Day", however the title was changed to keep this film from being confused with the Paramount film April Fool's Day (1986) which was released the same year.

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