Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

SnoopyStyle This is a spoof of the 60's beach party movies. Florence Forrest (Lauren Ambrose) is at the drive-in movie with best friend Berdine. Florence doesn't feel like having a boyfriend like every other girl and she has bouts of disassociated anger. Berdine discovers a murdered girl and police captain Monica Stark investigates. Lars is the Swedish exchange student living with Florence and her mother Ruth (Beth Broderick). Wheelchair-bound Rhonda (Kathleen Robertson) is mean-spirited. Marvel Ann (Amy Adams) falls for lead surfer Starcat (Nicholas Brendon) and brings Florence and Berdine to Malibu Beach. Florence becomes fascinated with surfing but the boys laugh at the idea of a girl surfer. She turns into the aggressive hyper-sexual Ann Bowman and scares local surfing guru Great Kanaka (Thomas Gibson) into teaching her. She gains the nickname Chicklet. B-movie actress Bettina Barnes (Kimberley Davies) is living in the supposed-haunted beach house. The murders continue and Florence keeps switching to Ann Bowman.This is a deliberate broad wacky spoof. There is fun about being on the beach but there is also an aspect of trying too hard. It doesn't always come off as funny. Lauren Ambrose and Amy Adams are terrific. The actors are generally good but Thomas Gibson does not fit as a surfing guru. He sticks out like a sore thumb on the beach. His character goes off in a crazy direction but it would be funnier with someone else with more comedic potential. This is all very wacky but it's not very funny.

GL84 After joining up with a gang of surfers and their lifestyle, a woman fears that the serial killer running rampant through the group may be herself when she falls victim to a split personality and tries to stop it from continuing before all of her friends are killed.This was a pretty decent mixture of 60s Beach movie and slasher, though the fact that the stalking scenes are non-existent and never developed while the beach-party aspect of the movie is allotted full time to develop and go through it's paces clearly shows the slasher angle is just that, an angle used to give it a bit of individuality and distance itself from the pack. Still, it's not unwatchable, as the psychosis is pretty clever and generally pretty funny, the gay subplots are given enough room to be heard without overwhelming everything and the final revelation of the killer is pretty enjoyable. Still, had it done more with it's slasher setting, it could've had something really enjoyable instead of being just decent.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and Nudity.

lewiskendell "There is so much ugliness in the world. Can't there be anyone who is utterly perfect?"What an odd combination of a slasher, dance numbers, surfing, cross-dressing, split-personalities, a murder mystery, and campy humor. I only chose to see Psycho Beach Party because of the presence of a young Amy Adams, who I will watch absolutely any movie for. Without her, I wouldn't have had much of a reason to finish this. I love campy, cult movies, but Psycho Beach Party didn't particularly amuse me. It wasn't bad, but this movie is really only worth seeing if you're a fan of the cast (which includes Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson, and Kathleen Robertson), and for the cheesy, awesome ending. Watch the trailer, it should give you an excellent idea of whether this is for you.

davidbyrne77 Wow - I saw this movie on late-night TV (the only place where you would expect it to shown), and man was it funny! I love spoof movies, and this on did quite nicely. Just the technical aspects of having a modern movie set in the early 60's would be challenging, so hats off to the director. I loved the super cheesy dialogue (Golly gee!), and the characters were both inspired and stereotypical, at east for a 'beach blanket' flick. "I'll be your girl Friday!" says the plucky sidekick. The innuendo and double-entendre's are great, like when the girls are at a scary drive-in movie. "Boys, they only have one thing on their mind.....well, I'm going <to the snack bar> to get a weiner." It was strange seeing Greg from Dharma and Greg here, but what the hell. Backward projection rocks!