"The Horror of Party Beach" was just an excuse to make another rotten 50s teen movie because, speaking in terms of the title, it's too much party beach and not enough horror.

The film opens when a motorcycle gang stops by a beach party, where the guys wear swimming trunks and the ladies wear bikinis that show a lot of skin, and they start singing and dancing to a rock-and-roll band playing hootenanny beach music. One guy is having trouble with his girlfriend; she swims out to an island somewhere (probably because she wanted to be the first to die), and a fight breaks out, but afterward they just keep on dancing.

Some guys dump barrels of toxic waste into the water. One of the barrels immediately opens when it hits the ocean floor, and the toxic waste in it transmogrifies a nearby human skeleton into a giant crustacean-like being with what look like hot dogs crammed into its mouth. The toxic waste doesn't affect nearby fish in any way, shape, or form.

But nobody cares. They just keep on dancing. Until the girlfriend is killed by the first monster on the island. Then the running and screaming starts.

There's also this scientist whom no one cares about, and Eulabelle, an African-American housemaid who seems interested in voodoo. But who cares? The important thing is that MONSTERS KILL TEENAGED GIRLS!

After the monsters attack an entire slumber party of teenage girls, plus three New Yorker stereotypes, people get concerned.

The scientists retrieve a monster's hand and examine it. Then Eulabelle knocks over a beaker of sodium, and the hand incinerates. They realize SODIUM kills the monsters. So what do they do? They sit back and watch as the monsters keep killing innocent teenage girls! I remember watching this movie on MST3K, and Mike and the Bots kept screaming "SODIUM!!!"

This brings up another point. They won't kill teenage boys or middle-aged men, but they'll kill teenage girls. What's up with that?

Watch for the end of the movie when the scene switches from day to night, and when the girl gets her foot caught in the rocks while trying to get away from the monster: it starts bleeding immediately. In the end, a boy visits the girl lying in bed while the radio says something like: "We interrupt this music program to bring you an important message...the monsters are dead and everything's okay. Now back to the music."

The baddest of bad movies.

Response From RinkWorks:

SODIUM!