The Horror of Party Beach

1964
Approved
1h 18m

IMDb RATING

3.3/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.

Play trailer1:06

1 Video

42 Photos

Horror Musical

Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

3.3/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
When Del Tenney was going to show the film to executives from Twentieth Century Fox to see if they would pick it up, Tenney brought in some folks to wear the monster suits for promotion. One of the monsters was in the restroom when an executive from Twentieth Century came in. The gentleman freaked out at the sight of the monster, eryone had a good laugh about it, and Twentieth Century Fox released the film.

Goofs
A detective says he's going to run a "carbon 14 test" on scales found at the first murder scene and, something to the effect of, "there's been major breakthroughs in the world of genetics." Carbon 14 is used for carbon dating, not genetics and it would be incredibly useless in a murder investigation.

Quotes
Eulabelle: It's the voodoo, Dr. Gavin. It's the voodoo, I tells ya!

Crazy credits
"Motorcycle Gang": Charter Oaks MC, Riverside, Connecticut.

Alternate versions
In the original script there was supposed to be a huge confrontation between the motorcycle gang and the monsters. Unfortunately Agustin Mayer, who played Mike, was unfamiliar with riding a motorcycle and crashed while trying to learn. The result was a broken leg, and his big scene was cut from the script and film.

Connections
Edited into FrightMare Theater: The Horror of Party Beach (2017)

Soundtracks
Drag
Written by Ronnie Linares and Gary Robert Jones (as Gary Robert Jones)
Performed by The Del-Aires

User reviews110

Review

Featured review

Innocent creatures and hideous teenagers! (no, wait a second . . .)

Spawned by nuclear waste which has been dumped into the sea, these hideous creatures rise up from the ocean depths to prey on innocent teens!

Actually the creatures aren't that hideous and the teens aren't that innocent, so there isn't really much horror at Party Beach.

But there's still some fun to be had if you're into the mood for a so-bad-it's-good movie. The monster suits are perfect comic caricatures of all those `Black Lagoon' imitators, so you have to laugh WITH the movie as well as AT it. The creatures have cartoonish fish heads atop slim bodies with oversized scales that look more like floppy feathers. The suits must have been reasonably light and maneuverable, because the spry creatures invade several beach parties and dash off with armloads of bikini-clad beauties.

Musical guest stars: The Del-Aires. Filmed during the height of Frankie and Annette's `Beach Party' craze, `The Horror of Party Beach' was a pure natural for the thousands of drive-in theaters that flourished during those by-gone days.