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Psycho Beach Party

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Australia, United States · 2000
1h 35m
Director Robert Lee King
Starring Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, Nicholas Brendon, Kimberley Davies
Genre Comedy, Horror

Spoof of 1960's Beach Party/Gidget surfing movies mixed with slasher horror films. A not-so-innocent girl in 1960's Malibu becomes the first girl surfer at Malibu Beach, only she suffers from dissociative identity disorder and occasionally her alter ego, a sexually aggressive, foul-speaking girl, comes out. During her "episodes" several beach goers are found murdered.

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Miami Herald by Charles Savage

While there is archival value in permanently recording this work on celluloid, the best way to really enjoy it remains live on stage.

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Village Voice by Dennis Lim

The viewer is left to ponder the number of levels on which this counts as a pointless exercise -- a parody of parodic movies, a deconstruction of transparent genres, a self-negatingly knowing example of camp.

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New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Charles Busch's spoof of beach-party movies and psychological thrillers, an off-Broadway hit 13 years ago, stubbornly refuses to entertain in this unrelentingly dull film version.

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

This unsubtle parody probably worked better on stage; its candy-colored artifice looks more than a little strained on film, and the actors are all trying really hard to be camp.

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