trimbolicelia Entertainingly bad. Black-and-white mid 60's film made to cash in on two popular genres at the time; monster movies and surfing flicks. The film opens with a passel of bathing beauties watusiing badly to the equally bad theme song, supposedly sung by Frank Sinatra Jr. No offense to the guy but he did not inherit his dad's talent. Anyway we proceed to the first killing on the beach of a bikini babe by a heavy-set googly-eyed, seaweed draped monster. No one sees the thing but the cops find suspicious footprints which they moulange and take to a local oceanographer who lives in a mansion overlooking the same beach. Said scientist, played by Jon Hall, is intolerant of the young surfers and their girls, believing the do not contribute anything to a decent society. His words. He wants his son to join him in the lab and live a fuddy-duddy life. His son prefers to live the surfer life with his future surfer's wife, a kewpie doll of a human being. Admittedly the surfers and their girls are a hard-to-take lot. You should hear some of the girls bragging on their boyfriends surfing prowess. Like they are the epitome of manhood. Things liven up when the oceanographer's tramp of a wife swishes into the scene. She has a thing going on with her stepson's best friend who is guest. Some way to pay his host back. To be fair to this idiot he seems to love the Mrs. When wifey not cuckholding her husband she make things worse by trying to vamp her stepson. Thankfully he can't stand her. With all this soap opera drama who needs a monster. Not to worry, the monster is still lurking around. At one point the whole surfer gang has a nightime hootenanny at the same beach where the killings occur. They even happily sing and dance to a simply dreadful song called "Monster in the Surf". Sheesh. The film is only about 70 minutes long but I believe there is a longer version available; scenes added to the TV version. I think I saw it a long time ago on television. Hopefully a complete version will be released on DVD soon. The Image Entertainment DVD is very good quality. Highly recommended to bad movie fans.

mark.waltz Instantly reminding me of a live action version of the 1970's mystery comedy cartoon series "Scooby Doo", I had this figured out within the first reel. A creature from the black lagoon style monster is terrorizing the teen hot spot, attacking young women and leaving their badly scarred corpses bleeding in the sand. Scientist Jon Hall and his son are trying to prove that this is some sort of mutation, having evidence of other sea creatures having grown to sizes unknown to science. They are also dealing with Hall's nasty second wife and a houseguest who has outstayed their welcome. The creature itself is scary looking enough (no hot dog like teeth like "The Horror of Party Beach"), but the film is pretty much just bland rather than bad. I felt it had no real suspense once I figured out the possible twist, and it was a matter of maintaining patience to get to the end. Amateurish acting and poor technical aspects made it all the more tedious.

drystyx The title tells you what to expect, just not how to expect it.Made in 1965, one expects the upside to be the characters, camaraderie, maturity of emotions, and logical directing. One would expect the downside to be a poorly explained monster with poorly explained motivation.Later monster movies would have little upside, and keep the same downside.What we get here is little downside. The only downside is the way the movie tries to make a few characters seem like the only ones in what appears to be a fairly metropolitan area. We get a sheriff and a few lawmen, for instance, which looks very "small town" in scope, but at times they seem to be in a larger area. The disparity here is the downside.The cheesy scenes on the beach work well, because they're directed well. This film is unjustly maligned by a certain rich brat breed of modern reviewers. By that, I mean the reviewers who simply decide ahead of time to malign a movie. You've probably taken a seat next to such people before. Before three lines are ever spoken, before three actions take place, these people have already panned the entire movie, and you know they decided to do it before the opening credits.This film flows very well, and has all the atmosphere it promises. This is a good monster film, with lots of surprises.

MartinHafer If you are a fan of the bad movie cult favorite "The Horror of Party Beach" and wish there was more, then have I got a movie to recommend to you!! Just a year after this horrible horror film was released, "The Beach Girls and the Monster" debuted---showing that even terrible films can spur on copycat films. This time, instead of Del Tunney returning at the helm, this newer film was directed by none other than 1940s heart-throb, Jon Hall--who also stars in the movie as the grouchy doctor.This film is a lot like its predecessor. It's filled with LOTS of music and dancing on the beach as well as lots of young girls running about in bikinis. It differs, however, in the monster. Instead of the creature being the creation of nuclear radiation and hot dogs, this one turns out to be the crazy old doctor himself--as he HATES teenagers and beach music and wants it all to stop! Well, his motivation might go just a bit deeper....but not much. Throw into the mix his VERY trampy wife and Mark, a promising young research assistant , and you have a recipe for the good doc going nuts and running about in a rubber suit. It's all quite silly but perhaps just a bit better than its predecessor...but not by much. Both, however, are agreeable bad films--the sorts you can actually enjoy watching. Some things to look for in this one is the inconsistent acting and the crazy rear projection used in car chase scenes. Enjoyable AND stupid! different older style car at end