SummaryDescribed as a cross between a 1960's beach movie and an Alfred Hitchcock psychological thriller, this film focuses on a girl who joins the Malibu beach surfing scene and who is suspected as the perpetrator of a rash of homicides of the girl's friends.
Directed By:Robert Lee King
Written By:Charles Busch
Psycho Beach Party
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42
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
42
33% Positive
6 Reviews
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39% Mixed
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28% Negative
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It is surprisingly timely.
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Its cheeky, good fun is what makes Psycho Beach Party an enjoyable, if weightless, romp.
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For all its energy and inspired moments of giddy goofiness, Psycho Beach Party gets stuck in the sand.
42
Never maintains the spark necessary to sustain a feature film.
40
Ultimately, Psycho...can't overcome the redundancy of parodying a genre that long ago sank into its own satiric muck.
30
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.
13
Struggles like a fat kid on the gym rope to conjure up even a single decent laugh.
User score
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Jul 29, 2020
7
Oh where to begin with this delightfully ****, horror comedy thriller. Drag Queen/Actress Charles Busch (Die Mommie Die) stars as a cop on the case of some teens getting chopped on the beach. The wonderfully weird Lauren Ambrose (Six feet under) stars as Chicklet a young woman who wants to be down the beach studs and wants to learn how to surf. She's also got multiple personalities. Sexy Nicholas Brendan (TV's Buffy), hunky Thomas Gibson, gorgeous Matt Keeslar (Scream 3), Nick Cornish (TV'S Buffy), Andrew Levitas (Hellbent) also star. But the most surprising is a young Oscar nominee Amy Adam's (American Hustle). The movie is fun and goofy and weird. It's a wild ultra campy gem. 7.25/10
Production Company:
- Strand Releasing
- New Oz Productions
- Red Horse Films
Release Date:Aug 4, 2000
Duration:1 h 35 m
Rating:TV-14
Tagline:Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2000
Awards
L.A. Outfest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Fancine - Fantastic Film Festival of Málaga
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Fantasporto
• 1 Nomination
