10 Awful Horror Movies With One Brilliant Kill

2. Nightmare Beach - Trina

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From Umberto Lenzi, 1988's Nightmare Beach is fairly formulaic slasher offering that sees a mysterious biker embarking on a mission to slaughter some of the generic pretty young things during Miami's Spring Break.

As Nightmare Beach starts up, we see a biker gang leader killed by electric chair after being handed a death sentence for the murder of a woman he adamantly states he did not kill. Swearing his revenge as he takes his final, sparky breaths, the tease is that this biker is back from the grave when further bodies start to pile up a year later.

Not only does this masked rider brutalise the partying teenagers here, but he also eventually starts to take down members of the Demons biker gang - including Yamilet Hidalgo's Trina.

For Trina, she gets the absolute best death scene of Nightmare Beach. Confronted by this mysterious figure, she presumes that this is her old leader Diablo back from the dead. It's only once she's grabbed and violently shaken around that Trina realises what's going on, although by then it's too late.

Tanking a live wire out of the wall, the masked attacker rams said wire into Trina's headphones and electrocutes her in spectacular fashion.

Oh, and as for the killer's identity? That'd be the bible-thumping Reverend Bates, who is punishing the 'sinners' of Miami.

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