Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

O2D This movie makes The Beach Girls and the Monster look like Gone With The Wind.The trailer calls this the first horror-monster musical and that's wrong on two counts.First of all, it's not a musical.Having a band sing a couple songs in the background does not make a movie a musical.The band not having amplifiers or microphones helps but it's still not a musical.If you still insist on calling it a "horror-monster musical" then you would have to include Eegah in the same genre.Eegah came out before this so it's not the first either.Anyway, this movie started exactly like I thought it would, middle-aged men in skin tight slacks fighting over a middle-aged woman on the beach.After the fight no one wants the old lady and that's the end of the beach scenes.The last hour has nothing to do with a beach or party and it all makes very little sense.Don't let me forget about the monsters.Some men are throwing barrels of radioactive waste into the ocean and they fall to the bottom at 100 miles per hour.They hit the bottom without denting or bouncing and then the plug gingerly falls out of one.The waste hits a skull and we are treated to a very long and hard to see transition into a monster.Later there is somehow a second monster, ugh.Most of the time it's very hard to see what's going on too.The only time the picture is bright is when nothing is happening.I give this two stars because a guy watched a girl shake her butt and then asked his friend if he brought his hot dog buns.That's comedy gold.Still no reason to ever watch this.

michaelasiclari The Horror of Party Beach has got to be one of the all time great "Z" grade movies. To a 12 year old kid these monsters were so cool. I didn't care about acting or production values back then, this was great cinema! While it featured the very first slumber party massacre on film, (quite bloody and graphic for its time), it also had some of the funniest dialog and scenes ever put on film. Some teenagers recruit the help of the local college professor to kill these radioactive sea creatures. He discovers by accident( the family maid Eullabelle spills some salt onto a severed limb left by one of the beastly denizens) that sodium can destroy them. This sequence with the maid is hilarious! The fact that the professor has to drive from Conn. to N.Y. just to get a large supply of salt is absurdly funny in and of itself. The Del-Aires are on hand for your musical pleasure, singing their smash hits Zombie Stomp and Elllllaaaiiinnneee! Where was Dick Clark when all this was happening? I rate it a Fiiiiiiiive!All in all, this movie still holds a special place in my heart. But if you want a similar type of film, only better, check out Roger Corman's 1980 cult classic " Humanoids From the Deep".

Coventry Well, what more can I say except … There ain't no party like a radioactive mutant beach party! In one of my previous reviews, I referred to "Frankenstein meets the Space Monster" as the ultimate epitome of bad 60's horror cinema. Well, "The Horrors of Party Beach" deserves this honorary award just as much or maybe even more! Drive-in trash fanatics, rejoice! Nearby the immensely popular Party Beach in Southern California (popular only amongst swinging teenage slackers in shorts and bikinis; duh!) factory workers dump barrels with radioactive waste into the water. The gooey stuff inexplicably causes regular fish to merge with the remainders of human cadavers into bloodthirsty creatures that emerge from the water and attack the careless teenagers. Don't even ask why there are human leftovers on the bottom of the ocean, because that little detail remains unexplained. I suppose they were drunken party people that wandered off and drowned, but nobody ever noticed their disappearance. Local scientists try and identify the root of the evil, but only the stereotypical black housemaid Eulabelle comes up with a more or less acceptable explanation. "It's voodoo, I tell you!" It sure is, Eulabelle … I know this film is widely considered to be one of the worst horror accomplishments in history, but like so many other reviewers around here, I can't possibly bring myself to dislike it. In fact, you'd have to be a real sourpuss to complain about the entertainment capacities of "Horrors of Party Beach". There are a handful of dull moments, but for the most part this is a vivid and pleasantly retarded B-movie. The monsters look like the prematurely aborted offspring of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, all the cast members are either wooden puppets or extra large stereotypes (like Eulabelle) and the Del-Aires rock band boys bring a nice variety of swinging rock hits and sentimental ballads. And on a seriously positive (not kidding) footnote: the beastly attacks are fairly gruesome (chocolate syrup make-up effects aplenty!) and the eventual solution to defeat the monsters is quite nifty. It requires sodium to kill the fish! Sodium! I bet the writers had to put a lot of research into that. Oh, and kudos to director Del Tenney for making the dreary Connecticut filming locations look like a flourishing South-Californian beach community!

ccthemovieman-1 At the beginning of this film, you'd think you were watching one of those "beach party" musicals as The Del Aires - a so-so group of the day - provide us with some rock music of the time period. Hey, we even got a folk song later by a couple of girls. It wasn't exactly Joan Baez and company, but they weren't bad.Alice Lyon as "Elaine Gavin" may be one of the all-time worst actresses I've even seen on film. It is no shock this is her only movie. Some of the other actors ranged from bad to decent.However, it's the "monsters" - the guys with the "Creature From the Black Lagoon" suits but with better eyeballs and hot dog-like appendages hanging from their cheeks - that mainly make this horrible film a hoot, making not really horrible but good because it was fun to watch.To its credit, it was fairly fast-moving, too, with enough action to keep one's interest. The "creatures" were an active bunch! It all makes for decent viewing if you are a fan of the 1950s schlock monster and/or sci-fi films.Recommended!