 Hello and welcome to another edition of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies. But before we get started, what are we drinking? Wolf's Bane English Bitter. Mmmmm. Today we're going to be talking about 1989's Nightmare Beach. It is directed by James Justice, which is a great wrestling name. It is, yeah. He also wrote Primal Rage, which is another kind of cool 80s movie. And co-directed by Umberto Lenzzi. It stars John Saxon, the man. He was in Black Christmas and he was in Nightmare in Elm Street. Yep. Sarah Buxton is in this and she's in Freddy's Nightmares. Nicholas Dutth is in this, he's in the stuff. And Michael Parks is in this, he's a Tarantino man. Basically. He always plays a Tarantino Sheriff type character, right? So Nightmare Beach starts off with this character named Diablo, who is like the leader of a bike gang is being put to his death and he's being taken to the electric chair. I didn't kill your sister, you bitch! I'll see you in hell, striker! And he's put to death. One year later, Skip and Ronnie, a couple of football players from college are driving into Miami for a spring break. They show up at the hotel to check in. The desk clerk is all weird as some fat John Waters guy. Then it cuts to some girl hitchhiking. This biker stops, got this crazy looking futuristic bike right and she gets on. You're going too fast and he stops and it electrocutes her to death on this bike, right? He's like, what the hell kind of bike is this? I guess some special made killing bike. So Skip and Ronnie go to like the local bar and they park their shithead convertible car right in front of all these bikers, right? And the bikers tell them, better move right now. And they're like, no, fuck you. What if bikers told me to get out of the way? I'd be like, yep, no problem. No problem, guys. But then striker kind of like, oh guys, back off. They go into the bar and they start talking to the bartender, befriend her a bit, but Ronnie's coming on very hard like an asshole. The police have found the dead hitchhiker. The coroner's there, he's all drinking in that class, Diablo's gang might have something to do with this. Ronnie gets pissed drunk. 151 rub? Yeah. It's like, oh man, that'll fuck you up. I know from bitter experience. Just wandering the streets, hitting on women, then the whole biker gang kind of crowds off. Fuck, they beat the living shit out of him. But they don't kill him. He's still alive. They just taught him a lesson. And who shows up on the big badass motorcycle and a masked killer and electrifies Ronnie to death. So striker and the coroner figure that this Diablo gang is kind of up to these killings. Sure enough, the grave itself is dug up. So they're like, fuck. Ronnie hasn't come back. So Skip is kind of starting to get worried. And he starts to kind of ask around. He goes to that bar. So he goes to the police station to try and make a statement. Well, spring break. A lot of this stuff. Yeah, this is just typical. It's common. They go to the coroner. He knows where Ronnie is buried. And so he takes him to all these sand dunes. Skip starts actually digging up Ronnie's corpse. And who shows up is striker. You bury that body now, boy. So we really start to get to sense that striker is a lot more corrupt than what he leads on, right? That he thought he was. Exactly. So they kind of start to suspect that maybe this striker is not as upstanding as he appears to be. So they go to his trailer. They find all this weird shit and his dread sex, like all these weird kinky, all these pictures and leather and chains and he comes home, though, right before they can gather any evidence up. And they take off on her motorcycle going home. She ends up being followed by that very motorcycle guy. And we're going to end it there because there's a lot more stuff that happens. There's a lot more twists and turns in the plot. The coolest things about this movie is like the characters and how they all kind of changed throughout the movie. And they're not what you really think they are. Striker, the good cops realize like later like, oh man, he's covering up all this weird shit. He's not quite what he seems. Even the mayor is like, I thought we covered that up. Yeah, shut up. Shut your fucking mouth. Which leads into the mystery of this movie. It's a good mystery. Who is killing all these people? Exactly. There's all these red herrings everywhere, right? Is it Diablo back from the grave? Maybe these bikers? They're a bunch of badasses. It could be them. The kills in this movie are a lot of fun. There's a lot of electrocution. It has to deal with the way the Diablo died being in the chair, right? There's a wicked furnace death, ties her down, cranks up the heat on this furnace, and he opens the doors and like the flames come out. Just lets the flames come out, yeah. Melts her to a cinder. It's really cool. Another good death with like good effects is when it takes those wires and you can see her like start to melt and everything. There's some funny like after deaths too, like when they show that shitty hotel manager and he's all like. Spying on all of that woman through that whole peephole like fuck some creep. Motorcycles like a cool like death machines guys driving. Where did you get that from? Where did you make it or what like? It had to be custom made. It's custom made death motorcycles like pretty cool. Yeah and it's like it's got that special arm that pops out so then people grab it to get on. Yeah and then he's got those buttons and boom! This movie is full of twists which is one of its hallmarks, right? It's like it can go either way and you're not quite sure who the killer might be. Okay so you think that Striker's the good guy and then you find out he's the bad guy and there's like okay maybe he's behind all this shit and then suddenly the bikers like tie him up to their fucking motorcycle and just drag him away like drag him like you want to go for a ride? It's like oh it's not Striker. Yeah it can't be. Well who the fuck is it then like who's left to be the killer? Even though it's not Striker so they eliminate Striker. It could still be. Lots of people. Yeah it could still be the bikers, it could still be this person, that person you don't know. Yeah the commentary on corrupt government too like oh the government hides everything and has its own agenda and will protect its own. Like this Miami beach thing it's a huge money maker. Yeah everyone comes for a spring break, we make a lot of money, we don't care who dies. They don't want this to get out because then they won't make enough money but they're not going to try and protect the public, they don't give a shit to just care about the profit. That everyone go wild, whoever dies dies will just take the money. That's right. Yeah we've seen this before right in Jaws for one. Yeah exactly. This movie like it looks good, it's good production value, good kills, it's got a good overall feel to it. Yeah the panoramic shots you see like of all the people on the beach and everything and like all those 80s parties with all those women and opening their shirts and dancing and stuff like it's really good. It's very colorful, it's a good like walk through memory lane. Exactly yeah the way it used to be. So if you want just a really fun mystery kind of who done it movie that's like just embedded in the 80s this is like just a time machine. With a lot of electrifying kills. Then check out 1989's Nightmare Beach. That's right and until next time keep drinking.