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.

babyfir77 Siskel and Ebert coined that phrase....and as I look around for movies I rate 9 or 10 that have low ratings.....well so far this one is it! The second lowest is Batman & Robin, which I also reviewed... This is probably the only film in IMDb's Bottom 100 that I enjoy. That is without watching the infamous Mystery Science Theater version (which I'm not a fan of....but let's not get into that).What do I like about it? The story! Basically, about monsters brought to life by toxic waste and attacking residents. The music was catchy! The bloody violence for its time was pretty well done. Eulabelle, the black maid and a stereotypical person for the times.I can see why people hate it. But then there is a section on this page in which some people have discussed why they rate this film high, so I don't feel all alone.I think I saw this film around 1969 on TV's Creature Features as a kid. It left its mark on me.So I can watch this repeatedly, along with other films like Batman Begins, Bambi, Speed, Star Wars, Toy Story, etc. Of course I know Party Beach is not even close to the class of the fore-mentioned films, but its entertainment!

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!

lordzedd-3 Okay folks, I gotta dilly for ya this time. Let's start with the monster designs, unique but way goofy. To goofy for school, but I can live with goofy monster designs. After all, I love Power Rangers and some of their monsters can be goofy. The concept basically works, the odds of toxic waster mutating those plankton hanging around a skeleton is pretty high. Now the real mean of why I was disappointed with HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, all the musical filler. Why, oh why did practically every movie in the 1960s have to have at least 1 musical number? They padded the film way to much. To me it was more THE PARTY OF HORROR BEACH instead of the other way around. But there are some likable qualities to this movie, so 2 STARS