The Horror of Party Beach  (1964)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 1993
SYNOPSIS: A swingin' beach party flick with a way-out monster twist! Well, actually, it's a bunch of kids who get menaced by a really dumb-looking pack of sea monsters.
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
Stupidest-Looking Monster
Wurst-Looking Monster
The monsters look like they're made of wet newspaper and papier-mâché, like some sixth grader tried to make the Creature from the Black Lagoon and failed. They all have idiotic buggly eyes that pop out when they see a victim (who's always attractive and female). Worst of all, these creatures all look like they have about three dozen bratwurst stuffed into their mouths. In this scene, the hot-dog monster grabs a girl sunning herself on a rock (the girl's name is "Gina" in the first half of the film, but she's later referred to as "Tina"). It starts mauling her and, off-camera, pours what looks to be chocolate sauce on her, since that almost-black substance sure ain't passing for blood, even in black-and-white.
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Worst Science
This Will Be on the Test
Dr. Gavin has finally figured out that these creatures were once human corpses impregnated with radioactively-mutated marine microorganisms. He asks questions aloud, almost to himself. Choose your answers carefully, because he amusingly contradicts everything the hero answers.
Gavin: Of course! This creature needs the ordinary necessities of human life -- proteins [pronounced "proty-uns" -B.], fats, sugars and so forth. But since his organs are so decomposed, it needs the only food which can keep it alive.
Hank: Blood?
Gavin: Human blood. If a human body -- a drowned person -- were attacked by tiny sea plants which became parasites and completely infiltrated that human body before it had a chance to decompse, would the body be considered dead or alive?
Hank (puzzled): Dead?
Gavin: No -- it's still alive. But it's changed into a -- well, is it a plant or an animal?
Hank: It's...both?
Gavin: It's a giant protozoa!
Glad we got that straightened out. Go for the bonus round, Hank!
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Inane Dialogue
He's Got a Ph.D. in Stating the Obvious
The hero and the scientists are examining a severed arm from one of the monsters. Suddenly, they hear a noise outside. Thinking it might be a monster, they quickly turn off the lights and remain quiet. Enter Eulabelle, the maid. When the lights come on unexpectedly, she knocks over a beaker of saline solution onto the arm, which instantly combusts, shooting sparks and flames seven feet into the air for a full minute. Over the initial shock, the group cautiously approaches the flaming arm. After a long pause, the head scientist Dr. Gavin astutely observes: "Look! It's burning up!" All this, of course, is not even to mention that these critters live in the ocean. How do you kill them? Salt water, naturally!
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Worst Picture
The Horror That Is Party Beach
The true horror of Party Beach is the 60's beach-party scenes and the lame-ass song the teeny-bopper band performs: "The Zombie Stomp." Here are the words, as nearly as I can decipher them:
Everybody do the Zombie Stomp;
Just put your foot down with an awful whomp;
Then reach up further, further;
Let's get closer;
Let's get closer;
Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo;
It's the Living End!
The Living Dead, more like.
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Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Del Tenney Director of such schlock as The Horror of Party Beach and I Eat Your Skin 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
John Scott <Not Yet in Database>  
Alice Lyon <Not Yet in Database>  
Allen Laurel <Not Yet in Database>  
Eulabelle Moore <Not Yet in Database>  
Marilyn Clarke <Not Yet in Database>  
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