Psycho Beach Party

Name: Psycho Beach Party
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Comedy
Released: August 4, 2000
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 42
Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Nicholas Brendon, Thomas Gibson

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: August 4, 2000 | Unrated

Starring: Lauren Ambrose, Nicholas Brendon, Thomas Gibson

Summary: Described 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.

Director: Robert Lee King

Genre(s): Mystery, Horror, Comedy

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 95 min

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Stephen Holden

It is surprisingly timely. Read full review

Bob Graham

If it doesn't always come off, enough headlong energy develops to carry it through. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Overstays its welcome until the jokes curdle and the satire becomes a blunt instrument, but not before Busch throws some priceless one-liners. Read full review

Kim Morgan

Never maintains the spark necessary to sustain a feature film. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Ultimately, Psycho...can't overcome the redundancy of parodying a genre that long ago sank into its own satiric muck. Read full review

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. Read full review

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

Struggles like a fat kid on the gym rope to conjure up even a single decent laugh. Read full review

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NicholasA.

Sep 17, 2005

It's not a "parody" type of comedy. The emphasis is what would have been happening on the periphary of those old movies, had they been real. It strikes a good balance of respecting the original style and adding a modern viewpoint.

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Rcavey92212

Jul 29, 2020

Oh where to begin with this delightfully queer, 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 toOh where to begin with this delightfully queer, 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.

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