Cool original camp. This is a fun little movie.
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11/16/07
Psycho Beach Party (2000)
55 %
Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 17 Rotten:14 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Synopsis: 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. Florence Forest (Lauren Ambrose) is a perky but unfulfilled teen. After witnessing the antics of a gang of... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Lauren Ambrose, Nicholas Brendon, Thomas Gibson, Danni Wheeler, Charles Busch
Director: Robert Lee King
Screenwriter: Charles Busch
Producer: Jon Gerrans, Virginia Biddle, Marcus Hu, Victor Syrmis
Composer: Ben Vaughn
Screenwriter: Charles Busch
Producer: Jon Gerrans, Virginia Biddle, Marcus Hu, Victor Syrmis
Composer: Ben Vaughn
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07/21/05
It's all enjoyable enough, but it's played so broadly that it loses whatever impact it might have had.
08/01/03
If this wearying exercise in camp, rib-nudging double entendres, rhyming gollyspeak and groovy-daddio! set design wrapped around a wan murder mystery sounds like an Annette Funicello movie gone to hell, it at least succeeds on one level.
11/18/02
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06/05/02
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01/17/02
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01/17/02
A funny tongue-in-cheek comedy, cinematic commentary and murder mystery all rolled in to one.
08/28/01
PBP made a smooth transition from stage to screen; I suppose since the play was mocking movies, making a movie of it was a more logical use of the script.
06/15/01
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