Also known as Welcome to Spring Break, this is in fact a rather uneasy mix of slasher and beach party blow out. The early scenes with awful school kids bragging, boasting and generally acting like prats while nubile young ladies parade, strip, perform in wet t-shirts and even offer sex for sale are pretty grim despite the many glimpses of skin. A gang of bikers, known as The demons (get it?) are a giant red herring while a serial killer hidden beneath a motorcycle outfit wreaks havoc. I trust that leading man Nicolas De Toth is not related to the legendary director of western because he is just awful. Sarah Buxton, alongside him does a sterling job and if the pairing had been more equal, this just might have taken off. Whilst De Toth is quite useless the bad ass copy is beautifully played by the ever reliable John Saxon. Nothing can prevent this from sliding back into obscurity, however, even if the last third is very watchable and the skin in the early scenes welcome enough.
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