The Horror of Party Beach to me is not a good movie, but it's not one of the worst movies ever made and there are worse horrors out there(ie. Manos). While not particularly great music, the soundtrack is catchy, while the slumber party scene is a classic and Eulabelle Moore brings some gusto in her role. The rest of the acting though is laughably terrible, especially from Alice Lyon, a beautiful woman but has an acting range that ranges from total blank to unnaturally forced. The choreography doesn't match the energy that the soundtrack has, much of it is repetitive and looks improvised, which gives the movie a rather amateurish feel to it. Visually, The Horror of Party Beach is a poor-looking movie, it is very choppily shot and the monsters as well as having no personality or menace whatsoever look ridiculous, very reminiscent of men in cheaply-rendered suits. The dialogue is hilariously cheesy and awkward sounding, accentuated even further by the line delivery. It's one of those cases also where you wonder whether the writers actually proof-read what they wrote to check whether it made sense, which is unlikely. The story has a lot of ponderously-paced patches, because it is so thinly structured and heavily padded there is the question of whether there is a story there, when there is it is even more senseless than the dialogue. The attacks excepting the slumber party scene are hurriedly edited and hold no surprises or thrills, they're gory but the gore doesn't add a huge amount. In conclusion, a really bad movie but there is some entertainment value, something that Manos did not have. 3/10 Bethany Cox

*Spoiler/plot- The Horror of Party Beach, 1964. In a seacoast town, radioactive waste is dumped in the sea. The waste causes re-animation of several zombie fish creatures to invade the seaside town and kill. The authorities attack the zombies with salt to stop the menace.*Special Stars- John Scott, Alice Lyon, Allen Laurel, Eulabelle Moore, The Del-Aires.*Theme- Atomic energy is dangerous and creates more problems for mankind.*Trivia/location/goofs- StamFord, Conn. Filmed in 3 weeks. Was rated one of the worst films ever made.*Emotion- This film is extremely hard to view and enjoy due to the basic major production flaws of bad lighting, editing, and direction. The major attention element of the monsters mask design is laughable instead of scary. As such, the entertainment value of this film is zero.*Based On- Atomic fears of the Cold War during the 50's.

Unbelievably cheesy. The thirty something teens doing the "zombie stomp" on the beach as the geekish Del Aires rock on. Come to think of it, it was a lot cooler back then than now. Did you ever see a video of teens circa 2012 crowding on the beach, packed like sardines, waving their arms in the air while watching obese rappers say vulgar lyrics on the stage? But I digress..the fight on the beach between Hank and the motorcycle gang leader was incredibly phony. After the fight, the gang leader walked up to Hank and shook his hand...what? The monsters had the phoniest costumes on....embarrassingly fake. The monsters seemed to hone in on attractive young ladies only - killing about 40 of them. They digressed at one point and killed two drunk men. Hank and Eulabelle were very good actors. The rest stank. Hank's hot rod MG was pretty cool. What I took away from this film was that teens of 50 years ago were a lot cooler than the text- messaging, I-Phone addicted, saggy-pant, gangsta rap, Honda-driving,tramp stamp, pierced tongue,weed- smoking, snotty attitude teens of today.

A barrel of, what else, radioactive waste falls into the ocean off Party Beach. When it mixes with corpses on the sea bed, they are magically transformed into horny killer monsters that mostly seem to attack ladies--killing some and taking others with them under the sea for mating or to perhaps to fill their pantries.In the end, the monsters are killed with sodium!!! First, didn't anyone consider this is found in salt water and the water should have killed them or at least hurt a bit! This is especially silly because they learn about this when a beaker filled with sodium and water is accidentally dumped on a severed zombie-sea monster arm!! Second, the "scientist" called sodium a metal. Yeah, on what planet?! Talk about a stupid "scientific" explanation! THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH has the distinction of being one of the films chosen for inclusion in the great book "The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time" by Harry Medved. While there are many rotten drive-in horror films of the 50s and 60s, I can't quibble much at the author's decision to pick this film. While it may or may not be THAT bad, it is certainly terrible enough that I can understand its choice.One of the big problems with this rock and roll horror film is that as far as the rock goes, the Del-Aires were simply terrible--perhaps as bad as the singing of Arch Hall, Jr. in EEGAH!--another inclusion in Medved's book. The words are stupid, their voices are pretty lame and the songs are just awful--the sort of group that might have, perhaps, played at Bar-Mitzvahs or proms but certainly not in movies. But, fortunately, they are so bad that they provide a good laugh. I especially loved the horrible "Zombie Stomp" and the final song as the credits rolled--uggh they were bad! Another problem is that not a single person connected with the film has any idea what they are doing--including the director and the "actors" (?). In particular, I liked seeing Alice Lyon as the world's oldest teenager (looking close to 40 and with a poorly dubbed voice that was noticeably off). While she is bad, even worse is Eulabelle Moore who plays a horribly stereotypical superstitious Black lady. Having her talking about voodoo and all that hocus pocus was downright embarrassing and it's surprising to see such an obvious negative stereotype in the era of the Civil Rights legislation. Apparently they didn't hear about the Civil Rights Act in Connecticut where they filmed this! As for the monsters, they were kind of neat in a silly, kitschy way, but I sure wonder why they decided to stuff about a half dozen large cucumbers in their mouths. Many thought they looked like bun-less hot dogs. Either way, it looked very strange and quite phallic, so it was good for a laugh.Also, I know this will sound very, very catty, but the kids at the beach in this film looked,...well....very ordinary. All the girls and guys looked very plain and ordinary. None of the girls looked like Annette Funicello, Ann-Margaret or even Deborah Walley. You'd think it being a beach film they'd get a few bathing beauties or at least people who looked decent in bikinis. At least that might have provided SOME entertainment!! Overall, it's very bad and very silly. I'll give it an extra point simply because it was oddly entertaining but rest assured, it is truly bad--but at least more entertaining than films like ROBOT MONSTER--which is just bad..Also from the great director, Del Tenney, are classics such as I EAT YOUR SKIN and CURSE OF THE LIVING CORPSE (which isn't THAT bad, surprisingly). You can see him in a brief cameo in the film as well as in an interview on the DVD--where he seems like a nice unassuming man.Also, despite this being a horrible project, one of the actors in the film actually went on to a decent film career. Wayne Tippit (who played a drunk who became monster chow) has a lot of credits that followed this film--proving even decent actors sometimes start at the very, very bottom and manage to find their way.