The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini

1966 "There's Something BLOOD CURDLING for Everyone! ...when a pretty GHOUL trades in her bed sheet for a BIKINI!"
4.6| 1h22m| NR| en
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A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.

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ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
JohnHowardReid An American-International picture, presented by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff. U.S. release: April 1966. 82 minutes. (The M- G-M DVD rates 10/10).SYNOPSIS: Showman Karloff leaves his million-dollar estate to Kirk, Kelly and Walley, but Rathbone, White, O'Hara and Rubin want the loot for themselves. Matters are complicated by the invasion of an inept gang of bikies and a do-gooder teenage ghost.COMMENT: Although billed as a guest, Rathbone is actually a major player in this labored farce. Despite plodding, pedestrian direction and unfunny dialogue, the film still manages to held one's interest, thanks mainly to the game efforts of the players (particularly Quinn O'Hara) and the use of American-International's standing horror sets (which certainly give the movie "class"). The songs also are catchy enough, although it's Nancy Sinatra who provides the stand-out number, "Geronimo". She then, alas, disappears as the spotlight shifts to the nubile Quinn O'Hara. I'm not complaining, but it would have been nice to see more of Nancy as well. Karloff fans will also be disappointed as the king of menace is given little to do but comment on the action from time to time.Oddly, although everything has been thrown into the pot in a desperate attempt to make the picture as appealing as possible, contemporary audiences stayed away. For all its heavy-handedness, however, the movie bears at least a little bemused watching. And it's an absolute must- see for Nancy Sinatra and Quinn O'Hara fans.
rodrig58 This should be a comedy? A horror? Or they wanted to be a sexy movie, piled with innumerable girls only in swimsuits? I like wacky comedies, when they are successful. Here we got just a bunch of so-called actors who are flocking into each other in a castle inhabited by awkward monsters, including a ghost-woman, a gorilla and many many morons. They are just fooling scrolling back and forth, totally pointless. Nancy Sinatra's pathetic, like everyone else. Poor Boris Karloff, he was impressive as Frankenstein. Neither the songs in the film don't save anything because they are awful too. Piccola Pupa, who was full of life, singing Italian songs in the '60s, present in a scene, does not save anything. If you watch this, the only thing you want is to finish faster.
Wizard-8 "The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini" was American-International's last (official) entry in their "Beach Party" movie series - though Frankie and Annette do not return, and the action takes place in and around a haunted mansion and not a beach. Seeing it, it's probably best that they didn't continue the series after this point. Despite all the frantic slapstick and running around, the movie feels extremely tired. None of the characters are particularly funny, and some might be offended by the depiction of the Native American character (though the movie makes fun of every character in the movie.) And though the movie only runs eighty-three minutes long, it's clear that for the most part that there simply isn't any real plot going on - it's just running around that's occasionally interrupted by a (bad) song. If you're curious about Karloff, be warned that it's pretty clear that his limited scenes were probably filmed in just a day of shooting.
BijouBob8mm With the rest of the Beach Party films having made their digital debut, THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI deserves the same consideration. True, we don't get Frankie and Annette, but we do have A.I.P. regulars Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lambeck, Bobbi Shaw, Susan Hart, plus Nancy Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone. Even though this is not the best of the Beach bunch, the cast alone makes it worth watching. Granted, the film's not a major motion picture, but it was FUN (which is more than can be said for a lot of other titles, old & new.) Since last few Midnite Movies from MGM have been double feature DVDs, maybe this could be paired up with DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS film, which has also yet to see DVD release. (They could even throw on the obscure TV outing, THE WILD WEIRD WORLD OF DR. GOLDFOOT, as an extra.