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	Psycho Beach Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Psycho Beach Party is a 2000 film based on the off-Broadway play of the same name, directed by Robert Lee King.
		As the title suggests, Psycho Beach Party, set in 1962 Malibu Beach, is a parody of 1950s and 1960s beach movies.
		Florence 'Chicklet' Forrest (Lauren Ambrose), a Gidget-like character, has been experiencing a series of inexplicable flouts, and is worried that she might be the one responsible for a series of mysterious deaths.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psycho_Beach_Party (320 words)

	Ziggy's Video Realm: Lauren Ambrose in Psycho Beach Party (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Psycho Beach Party is among one of the best spoof films that I have ever seen, combining the campy natures of 1960 beach party movies and the modern slasher film.
		Psycho Beach Party is, unlike many of the other spoof movies, very clever in its writing, letting the audience think a little instead of having the jokes spelled out in front of them.
		Psycho Beach Party tells us the tale of young Florence Forrest (Lauren Ambrose, Can't Hardly Wait) who splits away from her best friend when she is taken in by the king of the beach, The Great Kanaka (played by Thomas Gibson, best known from the television series, "Dharma and Greg").
	www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/reviews/psychobeachparty.html (935 words)

	Psycho Beach Party
		Its current show, "Psycho Beach Party," is an insane romp by New York playwright Charles Busch, who has managed to poke fun at "Beach Blanket-Bingo"-type movies as well as' 'Psycho" and "The Three Faces of Eve," all in one hilariously funny script.
		The beach studs, also stereotypes (but not on steroids &emdash;it's still the early 60s), are played by Jonathan Benson and Patrick Payne.
		Performances of "Psycho Beach Party' are today and Saturday and Aug. 10 and 11 at 8 p.m.
	no-strings.org /psychobeach.html (881 words)

	Psycho Beach Party Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		What sets Psycho Beach apart from other parodies in a similar vein (1987's Back to the Beach is a prime example) is the subversive nature of its humor.
		Psycho Beach Party is set in Malibu, where someone with a distaste for nonconformity is doing away with various members of its indigenous beach community.
		It's up to Detective Monica Stark (played by the fabulous drag artiste Charles Busch, who also wrote Psycho Beach's screenplay) to rid the peaceful community of this menace, but first she must figure out who the suspects are.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=131183 (710 words)

	Psycho Beach Party (2000)
		Beach stud Kanaka (Thomas Gibson) decides to give her lessons, much to the bafflement of the other surfer boys.
		Themes of the old beach movies are copied and exaggerated to comic effect, like a drawn-out scene where two surfer boys playfully wrestle in the sand until they are splashing each other with tanning oil and rubbing it all over each other's bodies.
		Psycho Beach Party, if it had been done poorly, could have easily run out of steam and worn out its welcome early on—but I found myself chuckling right up until the end.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/psycho_beach_party.htm (347 words)

	MOVIE REVIEW HH 1/2: Psycho Beach Party -- Gidget Gone Awry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The campy Psycho Beach Party begins at a Malibu drive-in, where Florence Forrest (played with fantastic spunk by Lauren Ambrose) and her friend Berdine (Danni Wheeler) bemoan the fact that teenagedom necessitates a preoccupation with boys.
		What Psycho Beach Party is best at, however, is chewing up the wildly mindless beach party films of the 60s (Beach Blanket Bingo, Bikini Beach, and Catalina Caper, to name but a few).
		Psycho Beach Party might be accurately described as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 without Joel and the ’Bots, for the cracks are neatly self-contained.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V120/N42/Psycho_Beach_Pa.42a.html (546 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Psycho Beach Party'
		The new film Psycho Beach Party is a camp homage to these very strange films, based on a play written by Charles Busch, the New York theatrical satirist of B-movies.
		Busch mines for laughs in the gay subtext of the beach party movies, and it's there to be found.
		Psycho Beach Party (Unrated; 95 min.) directed by Robert Lee King, written by Charles Busch (adapted from his play), photographed by Arturo Smith, and starring Charles Busch, Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson and Nicholas Brendon, opens Friday in San Jose at the Towne Theater.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.21.00/psychobeach-0038.html (501 words)

	Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "Psycho Beach Party"
		No, Psycho Beach Party (PBP) is weird because it seems like the kind of movie I should love.
		PBP began, as all bizarre camp-fests do, as an off-off-off Broadway play which then became a movie.
		The plot deals with a bunch of bum surfers on an over-lit beach who lie around, surf against back-Projected waves, and are slowly picked off one by one by a mysterious killer.
	www.mutantreviewers.com /rpsychobeach.html (909 words)

	Psycho Beach Party at the Betty Oliphant Theatre
		In this case the play is Psycho Beach Party and the playwright is Charles Busch.
		Psycho Beach Party hit the boards in 1988 and, though it didn’t break VLOS’s record, did catch the attention of Kevin Sheard, who has chosen it as the premiere production of the new company, TAGLARC, until July 14 at the Betty Oliphant Theatre of the National Ballet School at 404 Jarvis Street in Toronto.
		Psycho Beach Party is a clever spoof of the infamous 1960s beach movie craze.
	www.stage-door.org /reviews/psycho.htm (571 words)

	Amazon.com: Beach Party: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This first beach romp is about as sophisticated as a Keystone Kops farce (it ends with a slapstick free-for-all that wouldn't be out place in the silent era), but it's dumb, fluffy fun with lots of hunky boys and pretty bikinied girls shaking their booties and making out.
		1963's "Beach Party", was the first in the series and it makes highly enjoyable viewing where the worries of the day are never more serious than catching the next wave on your surfboard or getting the low down on the beauty in the bikini down on the beach.
		"Beach party", is highly recommended viewing for those curious about how teenagers were depicted in the 1960's on screen as they are light years away from the angst driven rebellious teenagers depicted in films of the late 1950's as personified by the likes of James Dean.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792846788?v=glance (2430 words)

	Psycho Beach Party, a CurtainUp review
		While the film adaptation of his play Psycho Beach Party was well-received, it did take some liberties with the original script with its addition of a serial killer subplot.
		Psycho Beach Party, which sends up Gidget and Three Faces of Eve, with a few Hitchcockian twists for good measure, demonstrates just how unintentionally difficult is it to make farce sing.
		While Frankie and Annette beach movies are forty years out of date and the gay icondom of Joan Crawford is fast becoming a Stonewall trivia question, the play itself remains ribald and subversive.
	www.curtainup.com /psychobeachparty.html (542 words)

	Psycho Beach Party Widescreen DVD - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When a series of murders takes place on the beach, Chicklet is a prime suspect, and Captain Monica Starck (Charles Busch in drag) arrives to interrogate the remaining set of eccentric beach-going revelers.
		PSYCHO BEACH PARTY was scripted by playwright Charles Busch (author of the long-running off-Broadway hit VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM), adapted from his 1987 play of the same title.
		After witnessing the antics of a gang of strapping young surfer dudes at the beach one day, she decides surfing's the thing for her, and asks the group leader, the "Great Kanaka" (Thomas Gibson), to give her lessons.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?712267990023 (355 words)

	Psycho Beach Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The answer is Psycho Beach Party, a sometimes deliriously funny new movie that feels like it could be decades old.
		Adapted by Charles Busch from his play, Psycho Beach Party is purposely bad and for the most part, manages to keep its level low without turning the audience against it.
		Psycho Beach Party is certainly a weirdly appealing film.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/psycho_beach_party.html (436 words)

	Psycho Beach Party (2000)
		PBP is based on Busch's play of the same title, and it looks like he knew what he was doing in translating it to film.
		PBP adds in a slasher aspect with the murders and stuff (one girl's severed head is placed on the still-spinning wheel of her own wheelchair), but it never gets mean-spirited until the last minute.
		I haven't seen a lot of good movies recently, and that may well be making this one seem a little more clever than it really is. Nevertheless, this movie made me laugh harder than any movie has in a long, long time.
	www.geocities.com /tyrannorabbit/psychobeach.html (637 words)

	Psycho Beach Party - DVD film: Totaltiorden.dk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Psycho Beach Party" is a parody of teen slasher horror films, taking place in the 1960's.
		"Psycho Beach Party" is a spoof of teen slasher horror films, and it smoothly blends in the salient features of the genre to produce a camp, cheesy homage.
		Captain Monica Stark (Charles Busch) is the glamorous officer in charge of the case, and plenty of suspects and great characters add to the entertainment.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/dvd_details.php/B00005ASPE\|dvd (954 words)

	Movie Review - Psycho Beach Party - eFilmCritic
		PSYCHO BEACH PARTY originally opened off-Broadway in 1987 and emerged as a cult hit, with Busch as Florence Forest, aka Chicklet, a 16-year-old girl surfer with a tendency to abruptly, involuntarily switch to the persona of domineering Ann Bowman.
		Now PSYCHO BEACH PARTY has been brought to the screen, with slasher films as a new theme added to the other two.
		On celluloid, PSYCHO BEACH PARTY plays less like a clever send-up than a faithful replication, which narrows its potential audience to those who enjoyed all the original beach blanket silliness from 40 years ago and want to see a bit more in the same vein.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=3879 (592 words)

	Psycho Beach Party (2000): Reviews
		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.
		Psycho Beach Party is, from the start, in dire need of the electroshock therapy that Florence ultimately undergoes.
		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.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/psychobeachparty (617 words)

	PSYCHO BEACH PARTY
		Psycho Beach Party is a funny murder mystery decorated with surf music, cars with fins, poodle skirts, drive-ins, luaus and split personality disorder.
		Despite all of the reassurances from her family’s Swedish exchange student Lars (Matt Keeslar, Scream 3), Florence is perpetually down in the dumps.
		But her wide-eyed eagerness is met with resistance from the boys, who point out that “girls can’t surf.” Luckily, Florence befriends the Great Kanaka (Thomas Gibson, Dharma and Greg) the local surf guru (who talks in rhyme) and, before long, she’s hanging ten with the best of them.
	www.sick-boy.com /psychobeach.htm (278 words)

	Psycho Beach Party (2000)
		Psycho Beach Party is an attempt to recreate and lampoon the beach party horror films from the days of yore.
		Psycho Beach Party, instead, substitutes humor with dullness, a lack of action, and an abundance of unfunny jokes.
		So, if you’re looking for a throwback to the good ole days of beach movies, or perhaps a horror movie, or even a nutty spoof, with Psycho Beach Party, you’ll be barking up the wrong tree.
	www.stomptokyo.com /otf/Psycho-Beach/Psycho-Beach.htm (998 words)

	Theatre Reviews - Psycho Beach Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I saw Psycho Beach Party last night, and I felt that an alternative review to the one already posted needed to be given.
		The whole American beach party film genre is not so difficult to parody these days...because it was virtually a parody when it originally existed.
		I wasn't so taken by the "psycho" plot; there was just something a bit unsatisfying about how it was set up and resolved...it was really just a vehicle to pin the characters on and give them things to do.
	www.theatre.asn.au /read.php?f=8&t=1891&a=2 (4786 words)

	Psycho Beach Party (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Psycho beach party is a silly and enjoyable movie not very far from John Waters "Cry Baby".
		There are parodies of the sixties "surf movies", but also many references of Alfred Hitchcock sixties movies : a little of Psycho, some lines from Marnie and a few things, maybe, from Vertigo.
		Add to this transvestite policemen and women, a Z-movie actress, yeah, this is stupid, and great too because it is stupid.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0206226 (327 words)

	Psycho Beach Party
		A psycho is killing people at the beach, and Chiclet, as a well-known psychotic and schizo, is the prime suspect.
		Psycho Beach Party (2000) is distributed by Troma in the US, but was not produced by them, and is made from a play.
		It is a spoof of Gidget and other beach party films, cheap slasher films, thrillers, and other genres.
	www.scoopy.com /psychobeachparty.htm (759 words)

	Review for Psycho Beach Party
		The assembled kings of the beach, led by Starcat, are more than happy to cluster around Marvel Ann.
		The b-movie queen is hiding out in an old beach house until the studio agrees to stop exploiting her.
		Years ago, the actress' beach house was the location of a grisly murder.
	www.badmovies.org /movies/psychobeach (1406 words)

	Psycho Beach Party
		Just when it looked like the "Scream" franchise and "Scary Movie" had pretty much had their way with spoofing the horror film genre, along comes "Psycho Beach Party" attempting to horn in on the territory.
		The kitschy flick is based on the 1987 Off-Broadway play by Northwestern graduate Charles Busch (who also has a co-starring role as a very masculine female police captain).
		"Psycho Beach Party" attempts to mesh three Hollywood genres--'50s thrillers, '60s beach movies and '70s slasher flicks.
	jaehakim.com /articles/film/revu/psycho.htm (536 words)

	Psycho Beach Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Watching "Psycho Beach Party," you get a feeling that the film is a few years past it's prime.
		I can't even remember the last time I was flipping through the channels on a Saturday afternoon and saw one of the old 60's "Beach" movies.
		"Psycho Beach Party" is amusing, cute and fluffy fun, especially if your an older Gen X'er, like myself or an older gay person.
	www.filethirteen.com /reviews/psychobeach/psychobeach.htm (645 words)

	Review: Psycho Beach Party
		Trying to avoid attention, Chicklet retreats to the beach where she joins a gang of surfer bums led by the great Kanaka.
		With all the suspects attending the big end of summer luau, it looks as if everyone is in for one Psycho Beach Party.
		Florence is a tomboy who dreams of becoming a surfer and joining the gang who hang out at the beach.
	www33.brinkster.com /reddwarfette/Extras/ReviewsPBP.htm (365 words)

	Psycho Beach Party (2000)
		She is introduced to a group of surfers on Malibu Beach and determines to join this strictly male domain.
		But at the same time somebody is killing people around the beach community who have physical imperfections and Florence is worried that her split personality might be the killer.
		also emphasizes a subtle semiotic point about the beach movie genre - it took place in a fantasy world where everybody was good-looking, straight and deformity never existed.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/psychobeachparty.htm (427 words)

	Psycho Beach Party \| ajc.com
		The original Frankie-and-Annette movies (and their clones) were cartoons to begin with.
		"Psycho" starts off pleasantly silly, as 16-year-old Florence (Lauren Ambrose) tests her mettle with the cool surfing crowd, led by Starcat (Nicholas Brendan) and hep senior sun god Kanaka (Thomas Gibson), who spouts rhyming beatnik aphorisms.
		"Psycho Beach Party" is sometimes more fun to describe than to watch.
	www.ajc.com /movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/P/psychobeachparty.html (421 words)

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