The Horror of Party Beach

19641964
ApprovedApproved
1h 18min

The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.

Director
- Del Tenney
Writers
- Richard Hilliard(screenplay)
- Ronald Gianettino(additional dialogue)
- Lou Binder(additional dialogue)
Stars

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Marilyn Clarke, John Lyon, and Agustin Mayor in The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Marilyn Clarke, John Lyon, and Agustin Mayor in The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Marilyn Clarke in The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Alice Lyon in The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Alice Lyon and John Lyon in The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Marilyn Clarke in The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Marilyn Clarke in The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Alice Lyon in The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Director
- Del Tenney
Writers
- Richard Hilliard(screenplay)
- Ronald Gianettino(additional dialogue)
- Lou Binder(additional dialogue)
All cast & crew
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Ghosts on the Loose

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 who 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 find and capture the killer. Not working fast enough to prevent the attack on 20 teenagers at a slumber party or 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? —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

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Taglines
- Weird! Horrifying! Fantastic!
Genres
- Horror
- Musical
Certificate
- Approved
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
Horror author Stephen King cites this as one of his favorite films.

Goofs
Pure sodium is a highly reactive metal. It is kept stored in oil or gasoline (not loose in tubs, as portrayed in the movie), as the moisture in air is enough to trigger a violent exothermic reaction.

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

Crazy credits
"Motorcycle Gang": Charter Oaks MC, Riverside, Connecticut.

Alternate versions
All TV prints and at least one old VHS release have the more gory scenes cut out, most notably shots of the body of the first woman attacked by one of the monsters after it surfaces on the beach shore, and the slumber party massacre, which abruptly stops after the monsters burst inside. There is one old VHS release that does include all the gore intact.

Connections
Edited into FrightMare Theater: The Horror of Party Beach (2017)

Soundtracks
Drag
Written by Ronnie Linares and Gary Robert Jones (as Gary Robert Jones)
Performed by The Del-Aires

Top review

Innocent creatures and hideous teenagers! (no, wait a second . . .)

Spawned by nuclear waste which has been dumped into the sea, these hideous creatures rise up from the ocean depths to prey on innocent teens!

Actually the creatures aren't that hideous and the teens aren't that innocent, so there isn't really much horror at Party Beach.

But there's still some fun to be had if you're into the mood for a so-bad-it's-good movie. The monster suits are perfect comic caricatures of all those `Black Lagoon' imitators, so you have to laugh WITH the movie as well as AT it. The creatures have cartoonish fish heads atop slim bodies with oversized scales that look more like floppy feathers. The suits must have been reasonably light and maneuverable, because the spry creatures invade several beach parties and dash off with armloads of bikini-clad beauties.

Musical guest stars: The Del-Aires. Filmed during the height of Frankie and Annette's `Beach Party' craze, `The Horror of Party Beach' was a pure natural for the thousands of drive-in theaters that flourished during those by-gone days.

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Bruce_Cook
Dec 11, 2003

Release date
- June 1, 1964 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- Invasion of the Zombies
Filming locations
- Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Production companies
- Inzom Productions
- Iselin-Tenney Productions
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Budget
- $120,000 (estimated)

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Runtime
- 1h 18min
Color
- Black and White
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1

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