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Horror of Party Beach
07-17-2007, 06:52 PM
This movie was filmed in 1964, mostly at Calf's Pasture Beach in Norwalk, CT. It's a pretty much ridiculous movie, but I'm sure back in the day it got a few screams in the theater. A skeleton mingles in the water with some sort of poisonous what-not, which then produces a 'zombie' which looks much like the creature from the black lagoon, but 'whatever'! Scary scenes with girls at sleepover parties ensue, it's campy, I won't lie.

My Dad, Uncle Arnie, and family friend Frank are among the bikers in the film that race the main characters at the beginning of the film, and whoop some butt on the beach. They were real members of a bike gang back then, called "Charter Oak", which still exists in that area today (in Stamford, Connecticut). My Dad at that time was president. He said the filmmakers approached him and asked if his gang would like to be in the movie, that's how it happened. Dad said that while they were filming, the filmers did NOT tell them what to do after they stopped filming while they were in a racing scene. Half the guys kept going, the other half apparently stopped. My father ran over the guy in front of him just as the film shoot stopped, when the guy stopped short in front of him.... broke a few ribs, but the guy lived.

I have a copy of the movie on cassette tape, and the comic book type movie booklet, too. My Dad's shining moment on screen (aside from a brief counting skit on Sesame Street as he rolled boxes out of his tractor trailer as kids counted them! LOL)

Here's the link to the Horror of Party Beach trailer. Don't be afraid! HEHE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=np2KZhowlgI

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a65/KerriD05/HoPBGoodSize.jpg

Cornflakes
07-17-2007, 11:03 PM
Hey I'll check this out can you still buy the video for it??

Pretty cool that you're dad and uncle was in this!

Lenny
07-18-2007, 08:20 AM
Thats pretty cool, I am going to have to watch this one, seems that Netflix even has it its a double feature with "The Curse of the Living Corpse" Both sound like my type of flicks.

Horror of Party Beach
07-18-2007, 01:45 PM
Hey I'll check this out can you still buy the video for it??

Pretty cool that you're dad and uncle was in this!

I'm not sure if you can still buy the video, actually. About 14 years ago I bought what I was told were "the last two copies" of the video, they sent them to me from Salt Lake City. But I'd think since then they've probably made more? I don't even know! I should really find out, would be nice to have it on DVD if that's possible, or I can always convert this video cassette onto a DVD. I bought a copy for my father (who hadn't seen it in years) and one for me, too. Then I found out my uncle who's also in it, his son bought him what must have been the third from the last copy ;)

Horror of Party Beach
07-18-2007, 01:46 PM
Thats pretty cool, I am going to have to watch this one, seems that Netflix even has it its a double feature with "The Curse of the Living Corpse" Both sound like my type of flicks.

I've seen that, too, a movie poster with HoPB at top and on bottom the CoLC picture. I haven't seen CoLC yet, so it might be fun to watch... :)

BarnabusBlackoak
07-18-2007, 05:48 PM
That movie is really bad. The monster looks like he's got a buncha hotdogs sticking out of his mouth. Didn't MST3K do this one?


heres a short clip http://www.badmovies.org/multimedia/moviesl/horrorparty1.mpg

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/horrorparty/horrorparty1.jpg

DentFoster
07-19-2007, 03:45 PM
Thats pretty cool, I am going to have to watch this one, seems that Netflix even has it its a double feature with "The Curse of the Living Corpse" Both sound like my type of flicks.
I just Netflixed it to the top of my queue. Definantly seems like my kind of flicks as well.

Horror of Party Beach
07-19-2007, 06:11 PM
That movie is really bad. The monster looks like he's got a buncha hotdogs sticking out of his mouth. Didn't MST3K do this one?


heres a short clip http://www.badmovies.org/multimedia/moviesl/horrorparty1.mpg

http://www.badmovies.org/movies/horrorparty/horrorparty1.jpg

Yeah, the monster is by far among the most pathetic attempts at "horrifying-looking".... but pretty damn "frightening" among 1964 standards... maybe?! LOL

jackskellington
07-19-2007, 08:20 PM
Looks like a fun rainy Sunday afternoon flick on basic cable, or an MST3K episode!:)

DentFoster
08-04-2007, 12:40 PM
Watched it last night & loved it. The two drunks conversation was one of my favorite scenes. This along with Plan 9 From Outer Space would make for a perfect night at the drive in.

I kept thinking, the guys that made The Host must have been influenced by this.