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Psycho Beach Party
Strand Releasing
MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring
Lauren Ambrose,
Thomas Gibson,
Nicholas Brendon,
and
Kimberley Davies
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.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Charles Busch (also play)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Robert Lee King
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 10, 2001
Video: April 10, 2001
Theatrical: August 4, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
95 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
It is surprisingly timely.

75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
A little Hitchcock and some good Psycho fun at the beach.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
If it doesn't always come off, enough headlong energy develops to carry it through.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Its cheeky, good fun is what makes Psycho Beach Party an enjoyable, if weightless, romp.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Smart, fun and mildly subversive, but it rides the wave of its joke a little too long.

63
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Overstays its welcome until the jokes curdle and the satire becomes a blunt instrument, but not before Busch throws some priceless one-liners.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
For all its energy and inspired moments of giddy goofiness, Psycho Beach Party gets stuck in the sand.

50
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
There's nothing here that's outrageous, startling or daring enough to give your funny bone a jolt.

50
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
While there is archival value in permanently recording this work on celluloid, the best way to really enjoy it remains live on stage.

42
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Never maintains the spark necessary to sustain a feature film.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
This unsubtle parody probably worked better on stage; its candy-colored artifice looks more than a little strained on film, and the actors are all trying really hard to be camp.

40
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Ultimately, Psycho...can't overcome the redundancy of parodying a genre that long ago sank into its own satiric muck.

40
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
The problem is, director Robert Lee King has a hard time sustaining the aimed-for camp tone, and while there are a few well-spaced giggles to be had, the movie sputters more than it soars for most of its 95 minutes.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Psycho Beach Party is, from the start, in dire need of the electroshock therapy that Florence ultimately undergoes.

30
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
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.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Charles Busch's spoof of beach-party movies and psychological thrillers, an off-Broadway hit 13 years ago, stubbornly refuses to entertain in this unrelentingly dull film version.

20
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
This multigenre parody is excruciatingly slow and unamusing; a go-go dancer in the opening and closing credits does as much in a few minutes to shake up our perspective on a bygone aesthetic as the entire narrative in between.

13
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
Struggles like a fat kid on the gym rope to conjure up even a single decent laugh.


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