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.

utgard14 Some geniuses dump toxic waste in the ocean and creates monsters that ruin all the fun the kids are having on a Connecticut beach, singing cheesy rock songs and shaking their booties. Z-grade horror meets the Frankie & Annette-style beach party movie. It's absolutely awful if taken remotely seriously, so I recommend you just check your brain at the door and have some laughs. There's not much to hate from a "so bad it's good" perspective. This has cheap special effects, corny musical numbers, actors in their twenties and thirties playing teenagers, hilariously bad action scenes, jokes with bad puns, and lots of gratuitous shots of girls in bikinis. There's a good deal of fun to be had with this but it's one of those movies you have to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy. If you're looking for something serious or competently produced, look elsewhere. If you want something to watch for shits & giggles, this is for you.

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!

compukatz I just had to give this movie a high mark. Not because it was the greatest movie but, I thought it was Very good and because it was filmed in my hometown of Stamford,CT. It frightened me a bit watching it as a child! It's so great to see Stamford's sights the way they were in 1965. Driving up High Ridge Rd. & Seeing K's Market and the crossroads of High Ridge and Long Ridge Road's just wonderful. Those who remember the Country Diner next to the Cities Service station will be happy to know that the Diner is still there! Check out the gas prices at the gas station! Seeing old downtown Stamford brings back many memories. The old Town Hall, Eating at the Woolworths lunch counter! Shopping at Sarners! Even shows the old police station. This is when Stamford was at It's best, just the way I remember it. I have a copy of this B Classic and will alway's cherish it. It's absolutely worth watching if you are into the old drive in movies or might be from Stamford CT! It truly was the first musical horror movie! B>D =^..^=