Instantly reminding me of a live action version of the 1970's mystery comedy cartoon series "Scooby Doo", I had this figured out within the first reel. A creature from the black lagoon style monster is terrorizing the teen hot spot, attacking young women and leaving their badly scarred corpses bleeding in the sand. Scientist Jon Hall and his son are trying to prove that this is some sort of mutation, having evidence of other sea creatures having grown to sizes unknown to science. They are also dealing with Hall's nasty second wife and a houseguest who has outstayed their welcome. The creature itself is scary looking enough (no hot dog like teeth like "The Horror of Party Beach"), but the film is pretty much just bland rather than bad. I felt it had no real suspense once I figured out the possible twist, and it was a matter of maintaining patience to get to the end. Amateurish acting and poor technical aspects made it all the more tedious.

If you're not a fan of B-Movies then this film might look good to poke fun at, and it IS laughable, often cringe-worthy. The plot is easy to work out, the ending abrupt, it all REALLY seems to be about young girls dancing in bikinis in front of the camera, which incidentally, focuses on bottoms and boobs a LOT, all rather MTV, some things haven't changed! I didn't think the plot was the worst I've seen, not all the characters were two dimensional, the cheating 'fallen woman' and 'the cripple' (their term, not mine) were somewhat intriguing. The music changed to Sexy Vixen Mode every time said older adulterous woman (Sue Casey) sauntered by, I think she was the best thing in it.As a bit of an amateur film historian, I enjoyed it, the whole thing screams 1960s values, it has merit just for being a slice of film history.

Frank Sinatra Jr had absolutely nothing to do with the soundtrack. It was recorded at BMI studios in L.A. in one evening by a band called the Illusions, from Riverside, CA. I played lead guitar, Monty Byrd played drums, Dave Phillips rhythm guitar, Mick Okleshen (an airman on active duty at March AFB) on bass, and Tom Burrell on Sax. There was also a studio musician playing trumpet and french horn. We were a typical high-school band playing for dances and parties, when Chuck Segal, connected to capitol records (how I could not tell you) put us on contract to make records after hearing a demo record we made in Cucamonga, CA, and carried all over LA to record companies. Kids who had a real contract!! We were thrilled, and of course, still inexperienced kids. Chuck called us into the LA studio to do the track while watching clips from the movie. We never saw the entire film until it played at a local drive-in theater. We were told that Frank Jr had actually written one of the many different songs we played throughout the movie, but they thought using his name in the credits would ad at least some credibility to an otherwise delightfully sleezy film. We had to do it at night, because it was during school. We had to improvise various generic riffs to fit the scenes, including the "creepy" guitar sounds when the monster appears (that's me on my Fender jaguar), as well as the beach party, the car crash sequence, and several other scenes. We never were paid anything, but Chuck did take us out to a Chinese place not far away for a free meal sometime after midnight, when we finally finished. Sometime after that we did spend another evening making a demo of a song called Clare De-Lune (sp?) but in a guitar double-picking surf music style, similar to what Dick Dale made famous. Everyone used to tell me I could actually play better and faster than Dick, but I did not have the unique "sound" he could produce because he played a right-handed guitar left-handed, but upside down, with the strings still in the RH order. I just thought a few people would get a kick out of hearing what really went on with the music. I found this site after "Googleing" the film title and was surprised anybody even cared enough to watch it, much less devote time to comment. It was fun, and the movie will always be great to me, one of the fondest memories I have from my youth.

I love this movie. It's one of my favorite really bad films ever. I first saw this on TV while growing up in Melbourne Australia. It was called Monster From the Surf on TV. My best friend and I used to sit up all night on Saturday's and watch The Late Movie, The Late, Late Movie, The Late, Late, Late Movie (I kid you not) and The Early Movie. I think this one was The Late, Late, Late Movie. It was one of our favorites - and I'm sure there were more scenes with the monster than there are on the DVD version; however my memory could be flawed as it was over three decades ago since I first saw it. Sure it's really cheaply done and very B Grade, maybe even Z Grade, but I love it and will always have fond memories of it. **UPDATE** as of watching this again a couple days ago (it's now April 8, 2017) My goodness it's cheesy and slow-paced, and the monster is laughable...but I still love it! I've got the US release on DVD, but I originally saw the international cut which was called Monster from the Surf. The differences? Well, the opening titles of the US version feature the Watusi Dancing troupe from the Whisky-A-Go-Go club wiggling in their bikinis to a slightly faster version of the surfing music - while the international opening credits has a slower version of the music playing over the surfing footage that is watched by Rich and Mark during the movie. Personally, I prefer the US version with the girls wiggling in their bikinis. Another thing I noticed during my latest viewing was that when the "kids" are partying on the beach, they play that surf music on their boom box A LOT! In real life, they'd get bored with it real quick, especially the girls. But all-in-all... as bad as this movie is, it's still great.