Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Bereamic Awesome Movie

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

rubybluelady If you're not a fan of B-Movies then this film might look good to poke fun at, and it IS laughable, often cringe-worthy. The plot is easy to work out, the ending abrupt, it all REALLY seems to be about young girls dancing in bikinis in front of the camera, which incidentally, focuses on bottoms and boobs a LOT, all rather MTV, some things haven't changed! I didn't think the plot was the worst I've seen, not all the characters were two dimensional, the cheating 'fallen woman' and 'the cripple' (their term, not mine) were somewhat intriguing. The music changed to Sexy Vixen Mode every time said older adulterous woman (Sue Casey) sauntered by, I think she was the best thing in it.As a bit of an amateur film historian, I enjoyed it, the whole thing screams 1960s values, it has merit just for being a slice of film history.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Jon Hall must have been desperately in need of money to get involved in this beached whale of a movie where he not only starred in but also directed. Hall as famed Oceanologist Dr. Otto Lindsey is trying to get his son Rich,Arnold Lissing, to follow in his footsteps as an expert on marine biology. Rich in fact has been spoiled by the biology or hard bodies of the local teens and collage students. Rich in fact wants to live a care-fee life on the beach dancing singing, which he does badly and off key, and fooling around with the sexy girls who spend all day and night wiggling their curvy busts and shapely behinds at him. It's just then that this monster emerges from the deep and starts knocking off all of Rich's friends. The monster looking like someone wearing a Halloween mask and covered with seaweed is suspected to be something out of the pre-historic age that somehow survived by being in a state of suspended animation. That's until the nuclear tests of the 1950's and 60's in the Pacific Ocean borough it back to life.All the evidence of the monster murderous activities seem to point at Rick's best friend the disabled, due to a car accident, Mark, Walker Edmiston, who was at the scene of its latest murder beach boy Tom,Dale Davis. ***SPOILER***As Rich soon finds out his dad Dr. Otto has been somehow involved in these beach murders since he found his ungrateful wife Vicky Sue, Rich's step-Mon, fooling abound with the young men on the beach while he was working hard in his study. One of them being Rich's friend Tom! Did Dr. Otto Lindsey somehow bring this sea monster to life to do his dirty work? Or better yet did he do it himself and have the so-called sea monster take to rap for him!***SPOILERS*** Out of control ending as Dr. Otto Lindsey is caught in the act of murdering Tom and then takes off in Rich's girlfriend's Jane, Elaine DuPont, car in what turned out to be a ride straight into hell. Wounded during his fight with Tom Dr. Otto had trouble controlling the wheel and finally lost control and fell off a cliff totally immolating himself. That's what we were shown at the end of the movie but strangely enough his body was never discovered opening the door for a part II version of the movie. Sadly enough Jon Hall never lived to make it passing away by shooting himself in December 1979 while suffering from the ravages of terminal cancer.

ferbs54 What "The Night of the Hunter" was for Charles Laughton--the sole directorial effort from a great film star--"The Beach Girls and the Monster" was for '40s matinée idol Jon Hall. But whereas Laughton's film is one of the eternal glories of the cinema, Hall's picture is...well, let's just say not nearly as glorious. In his film, Hall stars (at this point in his career, looking like Ernest Borgnine's older brother) as Dr. Otto Lindsay, an oceanographer whose troublesome son, rather than follow in his Pops' footsteps, prefers to go surfing with his pals and play his guitar at beach parties. This domestic friction is made even more problematic when a seaweed-draped, lumbering, rather ridiculous-looking monster starts to attack kids on the beach.... Anyway, Hall's film is silly in parts but not nearly as goofy as you might be expecting; certainly more serious than a Frankie & Annette movie! It has been well shot in B&W (although utilizes egregious rear projection for all driving sequences), showcases an annoyingly catchy theme song by Frank Sinatra, Jr., is decently acted, and features a twist ending of sorts that goes far in mitigating much of the silliness that has come before. Almost stealing the show is Sue Casey, playing Hall's trampy wife; my buddy Rob is quite right in pointing out that her sharp-tongued, shrewish vixen of a character would have been right at home in a '60s Russ Meyer flick. "Beach Girls," with a running time of only 66 minutes, still feels padded, with surfing stock footage, rock 'n' roll numbers accompanied by boogying bikini babes (played by the Watusi Dancing Girls from the Whiskey-A-Go-Go!), and assorted hijinks. Still, I can think of much less entertaining ways to spend an hour. As Michael Weldon succinctly puts it, in his spoiler review in "The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film": "A cheap laugh riot with lots of bongos, murders, and girls in bikinis."

CromeRose I love this movie. It's one of my favorite really bad films ever. I first saw this on TV while growing up in Melbourne Australia. It was called Monster From the Surf on TV. My best friend and I used to sit up all night on Saturday's and watch The Late Movie, The Late, Late Movie, The Late, Late, Late Movie (I kid you not) and The Early Movie. I think this one was The Late, Late, Late Movie. It was one of our favorites - and I'm sure there were more scenes with the monster than there are on the DVD version; however my memory could be flawed as it was over three decades ago since I first saw it. Sure it's really cheaply done and very B Grade, maybe even Z Grade, but I love it and will always have fond memories of it. **UPDATE** as of watching this again a couple days ago (it's now April 8, 2017) My goodness it's cheesy and slow-paced, and the monster is laughable...but I still love it! I've got the US release on DVD, but I originally saw the international cut which was called Monster from the Surf. The differences? Well, the opening titles of the US version feature the Watusi Dancing troupe from the Whisky-A-Go-Go club wiggling in their bikinis to a slightly faster version of the surfing music - while the international opening credits has a slower version of the music playing over the surfing footage that is watched by Rich and Mark during the movie. Personally, I prefer the US version with the girls wiggling in their bikinis. Another thing I noticed during my latest viewing was that when the "kids" are partying on the beach, they play that surf music on their boom box A LOT! In real life, they'd get bored with it real quick, especially the girls. But all-in-all... as bad as this movie is, it's still great.