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42 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

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8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

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  • Starring: Lauren Ambrose, Nicholas Brendon, Thomas Gibson
  • Summary: 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.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 18
  3. Negative: 5 out of 18
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    80
    It is surprisingly timely.
  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    58
    For all its energy and inspired moments of giddy goofiness, Psycho Beach Party gets stuck in the sand.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Dennis Lim
    30
    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. NicholasA.
    8
    It's not a "parody" type of comedy. The emphasis is what would have been happening on the periphary of those old movies, had they been real. It strikes a good balance of respecting the original style and adding a modern viewpoint.… Expand
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