CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) Make no mistake though, WELCOME TO SPRING BREAK (the titling I saw on a decrepit old home video tape) is a trashy 80s slasher with all the good/bad things that implies. It's just that when I watch big hair 80s teen horror flicks I expect to see some breasts. Not one, unless the version I saw was edited of the most prime element of this kind of exploitation entertainment.It's a decent little slasher, though the killer prefers electrifying his victims on some sort of arc feed connected to his motorcycle. And my hero John Saxon actually gets to play a nasty, vicious dirtbag of a bad guy cop without an unlooked for heroic bone in his body. Usually he's the calm professional law enforcement official in these things (BLOOD BEACH) and it was nice to see him chew the scenery.The killings are all appropriately gory and like Umberto Lenzi's giallo creations the murderer has a back story that goes beyond the obvious "back for revenge" plotting. There's also a glossy sheen to the production that will please those who tire of the standard drab slasher horror look. This is a movie filled with nightclubs, rock bands, spandexed bimbos, square jawed heroes with feathered hair, and everyone dresses like they just walked out of a Stryper video.No screwing around in the woods, though for a film supposedly set during spring break there wasn't one pair of bared, drunken tits in the whole shebang. Lots of fetishized leatherwear though, if you're into that sort of thing. The plot is also appropriately convoluted with a good guessing game as to who the killer really is until the last possible moment. Entertaining junk and better made than usual.5/10

Michael_Elliott Welcome to Spring Break (1988) * (out of 4) Notorious Italian director Umberto Lenzi traveled to America to make this slasher film, which is one of the worst out there. A biker gets sent to the electric chair but he swears he was framed by a local cop (John Saxon). The biker screams he will return for vengeance and after his death it just happens to be spring break. Soon a maniac on a motorcycle starts electrocuting kids to death. Has the biker returned from the dead? Who cares? Lenzi wasn't the only Italian director to travel to America to try and cash in on the slasher craze. Both this and Ruggero Deodato's Body Count are among the worst of the slasher period because it seems neither director knew what made this films so special. Both directors, known for their violence and gore, took all of that out of their films and we're left with boring movies without anything going for them. The murders here are all poorly done and the characters are obnoxious and it's impossible to care for them. The mystery surrounding the killer isn't of any interests either. Both Saxon and Michael Parks are wasted in their worthless roles.

Skutter-2 There isn't a great deal of entertainment value to be found in these here parts. This one of those goofy slasher movies which lacks those elements that bring cheesy entertainment and isn't even any good on a so bad its good level.Following the execution of a bikey leader a mysterious biker goes a killing spree during spring break in Florida, dispatching his victims mainly by electrocution. The whole movie is badly executed and almost all scenes fall flat resulting in no laughs, suspense or excitement. The acting is absolutely terrible even by the standards of dreck like this. The younger actors, including our blander than bland leads, deliver their lines like kindy kids in the end of year Christmas play. I do not exaggerate when I say that the actress who plays the biker girl may well give the worst acting performance in the history of film. Even the old hands like Michael Parks and John Saxon don't exactly distinguish themselves, phoning in poor performances.The whole movie just trundles along each scene trundled through in a workman like fashion by the directors and actors with no flair or style right up till the Scooby Doo style plot resolution. Even the exploitative elements fail to disappoint; there is little gore other than in the lame and fake looking deaths by electrocution and for a slasher movie set a spring break it is remarkably chaste. What is left over is bad actors going through the motions in the paint by numbers plot and a lot of padding, involving spring break hijinks, some of which I think was meant to be funny and filler subplots like the one involving the bikey gang, which isn't even properly resolved. If a movie like this can't even get the lowest common denominator elements right there is not a lot of point to it.

frankfob Director Umberto Lenzi used the name "Harry Kirkpatrick" when he made this. Don't know why. Maybe because it didn't spill the usual gallons of blood as is usually seen in Lenzi's gorefests. In fact, at first I thought that this was a crime drama rather than a slasher flick, because there was so little "slashing" going on. Then I realized that it actually WAS supposed to be a slasher flick--it's just such an incompetent one it was difficult to tell. Anyway, as mentioned by a previous poster, there are a few electrocutions (badly done) that pretty much serve as the film's body count. Other than that, the acting isn't good enough to pass muster in a junior high school class play, the script is laughable and has holes big enough to drive the 3rd Armored Division through, the identity of the killer is painfully obvious long before the final unmasking and the film fails miserably at whatever it is it's supposed to be--it's too mild to be a slasher flick, it's not coherent enough to be a crime drama, it's far too obvious to be called a thriller and, despite its alternate title of "Welcome to Spring Break," there's not enough T&A in it to qualify as a decent T&A flick. John Saxon, Michael Parks and Lance LeGault, usually reliable actors, must have needed to pay the rent to have appeared in this thing, but they're professional enough to give it their best shot; unfortunately, the odds are stacked against them and the whole picture looks like a really bad student film. A flop on all levels. Avoid it.