7 So you’re not going anywhere for spring break this year. Maybe you can’t afford it. Maybe you have to stay home and work. Or maybe you can never show your face in South Florida again since last spring break. And maybe that’s for the better. If pop culture has anything to teach us about spring break, it’s that it’s one nightmarish bender where you’re constantly surrounded by terrible people and cheap alcohol. That and the fact that there seems to be a lot of movies with Keaton Bell | film titles like “Spring Break Massacre,” “Spring Break Shark Attack,” and “Nightmare Beach.” But to make sure you are not completely missing out on the spring break experience, here are some movies to make you feel like you’re part of the action. Plus, this way there is zero chance you will end up on “Girls Gone Wild.”
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Spring Breakers (2013) - Watching “Spring Breakers” is kind of comparable to watching the Disney Channel and spring break news coverage while on acid. The story of four college girls’ spring break vacation that spirals into a lifestyle of drugs, crime, sex and violence, “Spring Breakers” is the ultimate look at American youth culture today. And in what other movie are you ever going to see Selena Gomez snort cocaine or James Franco with a grill singing Britney Spears?
Where The Boys Are (1960) - The movie that inspired thousands of college students to travel to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for spring break, “Where The Boys Are” is a wonderful little coming-of-age comedy. Starring pop singer Connie Francis, the film tells the story of four different college girls who travel to Florida for spring break to seek out adventure, friendship and romance. It was also one of the first teen films to explore teenage sexuality and depict the changing sexual morals and attitudes among college students at the time. Piranha 3D (2010) - If one of those made-for-television from the SyFy network were made into a feature film, it would look a little something like “Piranha 3D.” After an underwater tremor sets hordes of prehistoric piranha free during a spring break celebration for college students, a group of strangers have to band together to stop the killer fish from killing off the population. As a movie, “Piranha 3D” is outrageous, cheap-looking and features buckets of blood and gratuitous amounts of nudity. But as a guilty pleasure, it’s ridiculously entertaining. That is, if you enjoy watching scantily clad teenagers getting killed off by fish with razor-sharp teeth.
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