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- 2000
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
- 2000
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
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.
Directed By: Robert Lee King
Written By: Charles Busch
- 2000
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
- 2000
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 35 m
Psycho Beach Party
42
6.9
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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.
Directed By: Robert Lee King
Written By: Charles Busch
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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6 Reviews
39% Mixed
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7 Reviews
28% Negative
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5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
42
33% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
39% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
28% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
It is surprisingly timely.
Its cheeky, good fun is what makes Psycho Beach Party an enjoyable, if weightless, romp.
For all its energy and inspired moments of giddy goofiness, Psycho Beach Party gets stuck in the sand.
Never maintains the spark necessary to sustain a feature film.
Ultimately, Psycho...can't overcome the redundancy of parodying a genre that long ago sank into its own satiric muck.
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.
Struggles like a fat kid on the gym rope to conjure up even a single decent laugh.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
6.9
73% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
6.9
73% Positive
8 Ratings
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0% Mixed
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27% Negative
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Production Company
New Oz Productions,
Red Horse Films,
Strand Releasing
Release Date Aug 4, 2000
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Unrated
Tagline Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2000
Awards
L.A. Outfest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Fantasporto
• 1 Nomination
