Welcome to Spring Break

Nicolas de Toth Director: Harry Kirkpatrick Harry Kirkpatrick

Overview

After a criminal motorcycle rider is put to death, he comes back from the dead to seek murderous revenge against the residents of a Florida town.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/08/2019
UPC:	0738329239985
Original Release:	1988
Rating:	R
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Region Code:	A
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	18,478

Special Features

Audio Commentary by Film Historian Samm Deighan; Nightmare Rock: Interview with Composer Claudio Simonetti; Includes both English and Italian Audio; Theatrical Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Nicolas de Toth	Skip
Sarah Buxton	Gail
Rawley Valverde	Ronnie
Lance Le Gault	Rev. Bates
Michael Parks	Doc Willet
John Saxon	Strycher
Tony Bolano	Actor
Ben Stotes	Al

Technical Credits

Harry Kirkpatrick

Vittorio Rambaldi

Harry Kirkpatrick	Director,Original Story,Screenwriter
Franco Carretti	Costumes/Costume Designer
Antonio Climati	Cinematographer
Billy DaMota	Casting
William J. Immerman	Producer
Josi W. Konski	Executive Producer
Vittorio Rambaldi	Original Story,Screenwriter
John Rawson	Editor
Claudio Simonetti	Score Composer
Valerie Kenny Wolkoff	Associate Producer

Editorial Reviews

Now this is more like it -- a slasher flick featuring a leather-clad biker whose modified chopper comes complete with an electric chair accessory to fry those pesky, over-sexed Spring Break teenagers! This little-seen Umberto Lenzi-lensed effort (under the pseudonym Harry Kirkpatrick) plays most of the action by the book, with cardboard characters routinely partying, then dying, all for the sake of exploitation-style killing. So are the deaths any good? Oh yeah! Italian directors barely ever skimp out on the effects, and this sucker is no different. Sure, the fried heads that burst into flames look plenty goofy, but that's part of the fun. Of course, this also being a Spring Break flick, there's plenty of outrageous and drunken hijinks littering the background of most of the shots and, hey, a little bit of John Saxon in the cast goes a long way. With amazingly bad acting from the lead idiot (Nicolas de Toth -- now a tried and true Hollywood editor) and a hot soundtrack to keep things rolling, there's always something going on to keep a gore-loving kitsch fan amused. It might not be high art and it surely isn't a classic, but there's a sort of comfort in watching these by-the-book '80s slashers -- and the fact that the killer literally has an electric chair on the back of his hog surely does not hurt! Recommended for cheeseball-loving genre enthusiasts everywhere.

All Movie Guide - Jeremy Wheeler