The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.

Director:

Del Tenney

Writer:

Richard Hilliard (screenplay)

Stars:

John Scott, Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel

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Cast

Complete credited cast:
John Scott	...	Hank Green
Alice Lyon	...	Elaine Gavin
Allan Laurel	...	Dr. Gavin
Eulabelle Moore	...	Eulabelle
Marilyn Clarke	...	Tina
Agustin Mayor	...	Mike
Damon Kebroyd	...	Lt. Wells
Munroe Wade	...	TV Announcer (as Monroe Wade)
Carol Grubman	...	Girl in Car
Dina Harris	...	Girl Killed by Monster
Emily Laurel	...	Girl in Car
Sharon Murphy	...	1st Girl
Diane Prizio	...	2nd Girl
The Del-Aires	...	Band Group
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Charter Oaks M.C.	...	Motorcycle gang

Storyline

While the hot rodders and motorcyclists are having a rock-and-roll beach party, a barrel of radioactive material is unloaded from a passing ship, plunges to the bottom and splits against a jagged rock. A black liquid oozes out and covers a shapeless mass on the ocean floor, which suddenly moves and becomes an encrusted vicious monster. Soon there are several monsters and they must have human blood to survive. Tina is the first victim, and football hero Hank Green and airhead Elaine Gavin enlist the aid of her science-professor father, Dr. Gavin, to solve and capture the killer. Not working fast enough to prevent the attack on twenty teen-agers at a slumber party nor the killing of three girl motorists, Dr. Gavin finds an arm lost by one of the monsters and discovers that only sodium will destroy the monsters whose composition is mostly water. Can they gather enough salt in southern California to put an end to this horror?

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Plot Keywords:

monster | slumber party | beach | mutant | radioactive waste | 

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Taglines:

FRIGHT RELEASE-This certificate absolves the management of this theatre of all responsibility for death by fright during the showing of 'THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH" and 'THE CURSE OF THE LIVING CORPSE" (original newspaper ad)

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Genres:

Horror | Musical | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 June 1964 (USA)

Also Known As:

Invasion of the Zombies

Filming Locations:

Gutzon Borglum Studios, Stamford, Connecticut, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$120,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Iselin-Tenney Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Most of the secondary characters in the film were locals of Stamford, Connecticut that were cast on location.

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Goofs

As the monsters emerge from the water to pursue the heroine you can very clearly see that the second monster has a human head sticking out of its neck.

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Quotes

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

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Connections

References The Dead That Walk (1957)

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Soundtracks

"Joy Ride"
Written by Wilford L. Holcombe and Zebedy Colt (as Edward Earle)
Performed by The Del-Aires

User Reviews

Campy Fun

The monster had a striking resemblance to the Creature from the Black Lagoon, which was a much better picture with great cinematography. To make a correction: the substance used to kill them was sodium, not sodium chloride. Sodium burns on contact with water. It's a soft metal, not a powder, so it would take a lot to kill them. But why not just use flame throwers or some other flame source? The music by the Del Aires was really corny. I did a search and found nothing relating to them. Did they ever put out a record? You wonder where they plugged in their amplifiers on the beach. And how were the canisters of toxic material so easily broken open? I wonder what became of the actors. I don't recognize a single name from the cast.