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“Man, if college kids keep watching horror movies about Spring Break, they’ll never want to invade isolated getaways for a week-long alcohol, drug, and sex binge again!” – hopes every overprotective parent in America. Yes, it’s true that horror films love exploiting Spring Break for all its debaucherous shenanigans, picking from a goldmine of horny, drunk, uninhibited party goers with zero awareness, but some attempts are nothing but a lame buzzkill – like the dude who shows up carrying wine coolers. Weak bro.

Take Jim Valdez’s Machine Head for example – three girls, three guys, a lavish house in the middle of nowhere, and a stalker obsessed with “Ding-Dong-Ditch.” About as brainless as some drunken sorority girl looking to get revenge on mommy and daddy, Valdez never once achieves even a modicum of slasher glory despite casting three bodacious babes – I know, right?! How can a horror movie be so...

Spring Break. The two words together connote those heady days when academia stops for a week and unbridled hedonism reigns. Spring Break means fun, sun and sex. But in Los Ranchos, CA it also means…abject terror! From Anchor Bay Entertainment comes the March 25th DVD release of Machine Head.

With a hot young cast including Sharon Hinnendael (Embrace of the Vampire, Rites of Passage), Nicole Zeoli (The Telling, Zoey to the Max), Cristina Corigliano (Last … Continue reading →

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Anchor Bay Entertainment will be unleashing Spring Break slasher flick 'Machine Head' onto DVD next Spring. Of course with the movie being a Spring Break based feature we're guaranteed a raft off on screen bikini'd hotties that include Sharon Hinnendael ('Embrace of the Vampire'), Nicole Zeoli ('The Telling', Cristina Corigliano ('Sand Sharks'), Morissa O'Mara ('Hanna's Gold'), and Alana O'Mara ('The Cottage'). 'Machine Head' unloads onto DVD from 25 March 2014. Robert Adamson, Brett Howell and Blake Baskin also star and you can head below to check out the official artwork for the upcomoing release helmed by Jim Valdez. If you're in the mood for a bit of read then you'll appreciate the extended plot synopsis also shown below....

Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe in... Now just try getting that song outta your head for the rest of the day! More spring break terrors are on the way with Machine Head, but this time not featuring James Franco. Read on for details.

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Spring Break. The two words together connote those heady days when academia stops for a week and unbridled hedonism reigns. Spring Break means fun, sun, and sex. But in Los Ranchos, CA, it also means… abject terror! From Anchor Bay Entertainment comes the March 25th DVD release of Machine Head.

With a hot young cast including Sharon Hinnendael (Embrace of the Vampire, Rites of Passage), Nicole Zeoli (The Telling, Zoey to the Max), Cristina Corigliano (Last Day on Earth, Sand Sharks), Morissa O’Mara (Hanna’s Gold, Devolved), and Alana O’Mara (The Cottage, Hanna’s Gold...

Also from Joker Films is Machine Head, from director Jim Valdez. Being sold at the Afm next month, the pic stars Sharon Hinnendael, Nicole Zeoli and Cristina Corigliano. "The desert of Los Ranchos, CA isn't your standard spring break hot spot but when Rachel's high powered father gives her the keys to a beautiful desert home, she decides to make the most of it. Spring break will most certainly be filled with her friends, some boys, cocktails and fun. Once away from the city, they find themselves being followed by a menacing hot rod on the highway. They quickly wish they'd gone anywhere else as a masked stalker hunts them through the desert heat. Finally at the lavish vacation pad, the trouble they had on the road appears to be a distant memoryuntil the doorbell rings late one night and Machine Head unleashes a hell unlike they've ever seen."...

( Note: I apologize for quoting Bush lyrics in our headline! ) Details landed on our lap today for a new thriller called Machine Head , presently in post-production. Jim Valdez directed from a script by Jim Souza; Sharon Hinnendael ( Look ), Nicole Zeoli ( The Telling ) and Cristina Corigliano ( Sand Sharks ) star. Here's a synopsis. We'll have more as images and release details come in. The desert of Los Ranchos, CA isn't your standard spring break hot spot but when Rachel's high powered father gives her the keys to a beautiful desert home, she decides to make the most of it. Spring break will most certainly be filled with her friends, some boys, cocktails and fun. Once away from the city, they find themselves being followed by a menacing hot rod on the highway. They...

A straight-to-dvd feature "The Telling," is three short stories in one film. The movie, which was shot in the Playboy mansion stars former girlfriend to Hugh Hefner Bridget Marquardt. Promising an exotic tale, told through the eyes of three promising sorority sisters "The Telling," will be available in April 14, 2009 for a viewing. Have a look at the first trailer for this independent horror film inside.

First the synopsis...

In this horror anthology film, three girls pledge the most popular, and cruelest sorority on campus. For their final task, they must tell the scariest story they know. Containing three distinct stories; one featuring a murderous doll, one a has-been actress and her run in with a film crew of the undead and, finally, a hunt-and-kill fright-fest. The tales inspire someone at the sorority to commit their own murders (Internet).

Release Date: April 14, 2009.

Rating: Unknown.

Director: Nicholas Carpenter, and Casey Ward.

Writer: Joe Lessard.