<a href="/topics//Spring_Break">Spring break</a> these days seems like one big "Girls Gone Wild" video -- a conceit that filmmaker/provocateur Harmony <a href="/topics//Harmony_Korine">Korine</a> explores to the extreme in "Spring Breakers," with <a href="/topics//Selena_Gomez">Selena Gomez</a>, <a href="/topics//Vanessa_Hudgens">Vanessa Hudgens</a>, <a href="/topics//Ashley_Benson">Ashley Benson</a> and Rachel Korine playing co-eds on a crime spree. One thing's for sure: It won't be the last movie to use <a href="/topics//Spring_Break">spring break</a> as its backdrop. Here are six others: 
 WHERE THE BOYS ARE (1960) -- The film that solidified <a href="/topics//Spring_Break">spring break</a> in the American consciousness, this coming-of-age comedy starring Connie <a href="/topics//Connie_Francis">Francis</a>, Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux and Dolores Hart helped turn Fort Lauderdale into Spring Break Central for a couple of decades -- and its unexpectedly mature story of premarital sex and date rape was analyzed by no less than <a href="/topics//Camille_Paglia">Camille Paglia</a> in her essay "It's a Jungle Out There." Then there's Francis' hit title song! 
 GIRL HAPPY (1965) -- As Rusty Wells, leader of a small-time rock combo, <a href="/topics//Elvis_Presley">Elvis Presley</a> plays chaperone to a mobster club-owner's daughter (<a href="/topics//Shelley_Fabares">Shelley Fabares</a>). After wacky complications and a few songs, they fall in love. 
 <a href="/topics//Spring_Break">SPRING BREAK</a> (1983) -- Four unknowns, then and now, starred in this R-rated beach comedy from Sean S. Cunningham, better known as the horror director-producer of the "Friday the 13th" franchise. 
 FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY (2003) -- This time capsule from the 2000s, starring "<a href="/topics//American_Idol">American Idol</a>" season 1 winner <a href="/topics//Kelly_Clarkson">Kelly Clarkson</a> and runner-up <a href="/topics//Justin_Guarini">Justin Guarini</a> as meet-cute spring-breakers, won the Golden Raspberry Awards' "Worst 'Musical' of Our First 25 Years." 
 <a href="/topics//Spring_Break">SPRING BREAK</a> SHARK ATTACK (TV movie 2005) -- Exactly what it sounds like. The only question is why this schlock ran on CBS and not Syfy. <a href="/topics//Kathy_Baker">Kathy Baker</a> and <a href="/topics//Bryan_Brown">Bryan Brown</a> are the grown-ups among the kids. And it did inspire the name of the Baton Rouge band Spring Break Shark Attack! (with exclamation point). 
 <a href="/topics//Spring_Break">SPRING BREAK</a> MASSACRE (made 2008; released 2010) -- In this direct-to-video horror comedy, an escaped serial killer (Reggie Bannister, the evil Tall Man in the "Phantasm" movies) stalks six co-eds (including scream <a href="/topics//Queen_(band)">queen</a> Linnea Quigley). It's no "Slumber Party Massacre" (1982) or "Sorority House Massacre" (1986).

Spring break these days seems like one big "Girls Gone Wild" video -- a conceit that filmmaker/provocateur Harmony Korine explores to the extreme in "Spring Breakers," with Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine playing co-eds on a crime spree. One thing's for sure: It won't be the last movie to use spring break as its backdrop. Here are six others: WHERE THE BOYS ARE (1960) -- The film that solidified spring break in the American consciousness, this coming-of-age comedy starring Connie Francis, Paula Prentiss, Yvette Mimieux and Dolores Hart helped turn Fort Lauderdale into Spring Break Central for a couple of decades -- and its unexpectedly mature story of premarital sex and date rape was analyzed by no less than Camille Paglia in her essay "It's a Jungle Out There." Then there's Francis' hit title song! GIRL HAPPY (1965) -- As Rusty Wells, leader of a small-time rock combo, Elvis Presley plays chaperone to a mobster club-owner's daughter (Shelley Fabares). After wacky complications and a few songs, they fall in love. SPRING BREAK (1983) -- Four unknowns, then and now, starred in this R-rated beach comedy from Sean S. Cunningham, better known as the horror director-producer of the "Friday the 13th" franchise. FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY (2003) -- This time capsule from the 2000s, starring "American Idol" season 1 winner Kelly Clarkson and runner-up Justin Guarini as meet-cute spring-breakers, won the Golden Raspberry Awards' "Worst 'Musical' of Our First 25 Years." SPRING BREAK SHARK ATTACK (TV movie 2005) -- Exactly what it sounds like. The only question is why this schlock ran on CBS and not Syfy. Kathy Baker and Bryan Brown are the grown-ups among the kids. And it did inspire the name of the Baton Rouge band Spring Break Shark Attack! (with exclamation point). SPRING BREAK MASSACRE (made 2008; released 2010) -- In this direct-to-video horror comedy, an escaped serial killer (Reggie Bannister, the evil Tall Man in the "Phantasm" movies) stalks six co-eds (including scream queen Linnea Quigley). It's no "Slumber Party Massacre" (1982) or "Sorority House Massacre" (1986).

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