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Summary: Campy Fun
Review: Psycho Beach Party is film that has its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. It's a send up of the classic 60's drive-in movies. The story revolves around a teenager, Florence who wants to hang out with the cool surfer guys at the beach. She has one problem though, everytime she sees circles, she changes personalities. In addition, people around her start getting murdered. The film is good fun and you can see the actors really letting go. The film's main strength is that is has likeable young television stars like Lauren Ambrose form Six Feet Under, Nicholas Brendon for Buffy and Thomas Gibson form Dharma & Greg in the lead roles. The film is fresh, fun and none of the actors take themselves too seriously.
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Summary: FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY
Review: I saw this movie for the first time on late-night TV on a movie channel over a year ago. The trouble was, I kept falling asleep before I could see the end of it. So I bought it on DVD (I knew it was that character that did it). It is a clever spoof about surfing, murderers and thrillers over the years.
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Summary: Wicked Fun!!!
Review: I watched this movie hoping for the "Camp/Kitch" Factor...and that's exactly what I found!!!!
The plot even moved slow like the old beach/horror flicks!This is a good flick to watch while entertaining a group of ultra-hip hipsters. I'd recommend fondue and ka-bobs as snacks for the evening. You don't have to follow the plot too close to enjoy some truely clever and hilarious scenes.
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Summary: MOVE OVER HEDWIG
Review: The ultra campy flip side of the '60s teen beach movie oeuvre. Tallish, good-looking Charles Busch wrote and starred in the stage version of this demented parody in which he played Chicklet, a beach babe with 17 personalities. In the movie, flame haired Lauren Ambrose plays the part with a controlled, finally tuned lunacy. Busch, in drag, plays police captain Monica Stark. Move over Hedwig.
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Summary: Psycho Beach Kicks
Review: Okay, I really wasn't sure what to make of this when I first bought it, but after watching it a couple of time I have to say I loved it. It has everything you could want in a film, comedy, Horror, Romance and a cross dressing detictive. The film, based on a stage play of the same name, manages to keep you occupied and guessing up to the last minute about who the killer is. However, its not a film that everyone will get into, and it may seem a little strange at first, but after watching it a couple of times you'll soon find its appeal. Why its hasn't had a proper release is beyond me.
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Summary: Cult Fave In the Making
Review: I thought the movie was great ,my boyfriend hated it .....but it wasn't for everyone.PSCHO BEACH PARTY is an exceptional example of B-Movie making at it's best,crazy teens,hack-n-slash horror,B_Movie actress....I Loved it...If your not into indie, cult, crazy movies then this is not the movie for you. Thumbs up to Lauren Ambrose, I love her on SIX FEET UNDER, now I see this.She played Chicklet beautifully.I'm impressed with her comedic preformance.I will suggest this film to my friends.
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Summary: Delicious piffle onstage, collapsed souffle onscreen
Review: I wanted to love this movie much more, as much as I have loved Charles Busch on stage, but, except for a few sequences (the dance-off at the beach being one of them), I found that the necessary literalization of film sat heavily on the material. It could also be that the film was not that well-directed, or that the budget simply didn't allow for a greater variety of shots or tighter editing. There's also the problem that, in these days of sitcoms like WILL & GRACE, some of the material is simply too polite. The scene in which the boozy, over-sexed housewife convinces the young stud to climb up on a ladder to change a bulb, simply fizzled out. As with so many other great shows that have become tepid films, a terrific video of a hand-selected cast performing the original script in front of a live audience, with Busch in his starring role, would have been preferable.
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Summary: fantastic send-up that is an absolute joy!
Review: PSYCHO BEACH PARTY is a hilariously camp send-up of everything from BEACH PARTY, GIDGET, ATTACK OF THE 50ft WOMAN, and even Hitchcock's MARNIE! Based on the Off-Broadway play by acclaimed playwright and drag queen Charles Busch, PSYCHO BEACH PARTY comes to the screen as a campy enjoyable and delightful film. PSYCHO BEACH PARTY tells the story of young Florence "Chicklet" Forrest (Lauren Ambrose). She and her two girlriends Berdeen (Danni Wheeler) and Marvel Ann (Amy Adams) are enjoying a fairly mundane summer when Chicklet begins having problems... Chicklet unknowingly suffers from a weird split-personality disorder in which she becomes alter-ego Ann Bowman, a nympho lady-of-the-night intent on becoming the empress of the earth. Making matters worse is that whenever Chicklet comes back to her senses, someone ends up dead! Enter Captain Monica Starke (Charles Busch) who attempts to crack the case, but not before coming face-to-face again with old flame The Great Kanaka (Thomas Gibson). Adding further complications is the vacationing B-movie starlet Bettina Barnes (Kimberley Davies) and two surfer boys who have an unshakable attraction to each other. Featuring a psychedelic soundtrack complete with bongo drums and go-go girls, PSYCHO BEACH PARTY is ultimate wild ride!
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Summary: Psycho Beach Party
Review: Not many movies are as unique and fun as Psycho Beach Party. A very funny beach comedy mixed with 60's-style filming and humor. The DVD is very well done in widescreen and has full-length audio with the director throughout the film if you choose the option. It's really a movie you just have to see, and you'll either like it or you won't because it's not for everyone.
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Summary: Camp of a very high grade
Review: There's trouble down at Malibu Beach in the early Sixties. Sensible Florence Forrester has begun to ignore her trueblue friend Burdene in favor of "that sleazy beach crowd," a group of young surfbums who have taught her to ride the waves and renamed her "Chicklet." Florence suffers from strange spells when she's not herself, and becomes a tough femme fatale named Ann Bowman, "dominatrix-empress of the planet Earth!," who likes nothing better than to enunciate her own name melodramatically and to shout orders at her male sex slaves. Florence's mother, a Joan Crawfordesque control freak, won't explain what's up with her troubled daughter. Meanwhile, some of the surfers in Florence's crowd can't seem to keep their hands off one another's (hard-)bodies. And a strange killer is slaughtering people all over the place, striking largely at the physically imperfect... Charles Busch's successful off-off-Broadway stage play gets the full treatment here and is largely very successful. Very wisely, Busch, who played Chicklet onstage, stepped aside in favor of young Lauren Ambrose, later to be the star of HBO's "Six Feet Under," and cast himself instead as the police detective, Monica Stark, investigating the murders. Monica is such an übercompetent butch detective (with strangely thoughtful facial expressions) that everything Busch does or says is funny. Ambrose tries a bit too hard as Chicklet, but she's quite hilarious when she becomes possessed by the Ann Bowman persona (don't be surprised if afterwards you start reciting some of Ann's better, and more arch, bon mots: "Bad boys need to be spanked... bad boys need to be TORtured!"). And there's a great frug-off at the beach in the inevitable luau (between the B-starlet Bettina Barnes and Florence's romantic rival Marvel Ann) that is alone worth the price of the video.
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