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Some people missed the point

posted 9 years ago by mercury4
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The rating for The Horror of Party Beach is way too low. I'd read some user reviews and not pay attention to the rating. This was an enjoyable movie. I really liked it. It was so much fun. People enjoyed it years ago and I enjoy it even today. The movie has the music, the dancing, the pretty girls in bathing suits, and then it is a horror movie with monsters. When people went to see it when it came out, they laughed when they were supposed to laugh and they screamed when they were supposed to be scared. People that are going into this expecting it to be Jaws or even The Creature from the Black Lagoon, have missed the point of the movie completely. Is this a great movie? No. Is it fun? Hell, yes. And people have made jokes about the band in this, The Del-Aires. They are okay. That's about it. I mean, who were you expecting? The Beach Boys? The Del-Aires have some fun songs and their best song of the movie, in my opinion, was You Are Not a Summer Love.

I just watched this movie last night and it was sad because I watched it now that summer is over. I think it's a fun movie to watch in the summer. The first time I saw it on TV was on an old cable station known as Monsters HD. I miss that station. When I saw it on that station, I was watching it in October around Halloween, I believe. Summer was long over and it was cold and dark. The movie got me thinking of the summer and I couldn't wait for it to come back. This was a well made movie. I always enjoy watching it.

[–] Phoenix_279700 9 years ago

Mercury4, you're exactly correct, of course! Deep down inside, almost everyone loves this ridiculous monster-flick, and it should be given a sky-high rating. IMDb's so-called "low rating" shouldn't bother anyone, though, because it's not meant to be taken at face value...

Any cult-movie fan on earth worth his salt knows what a rare and precious gem Horror of Party Beach actually is. Del Tenney's 1964 masterpiece is a near-impossibility: a smash-hit, intentionally ridiculous monster-musical movie, created with tongue firmly planted in cheek by director, actors and crew alike. This feat requires inspired cinematic genius to pull off, especially considering the ultra-low B-movie budget, and I'll wager I'm not the only person who thinks Horror of Party Beach beats out Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and other such high-budget films... and by a mile at that.

So why does such an enormously entertaining film attain such a rock-bottom rating? Well, I have a terrible confession to make: believe it or not, many of its most devoted fans have given it 1/10 [i.e. lowest] ratings on purpose, just for fun, in order to enhance its fame and to get it into the worst 100 films list... and that includes myself!
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I plead for your forgiveness, Mercury4 and all you other THOPB fans, on hands and knees. Please don't worry: my actual rating is 10/10, and this film is sooo much fun to see, I can watch it over and over again. Come to think of it, I'm watching it tonight - that blonde Brooklyn chick keeps driving me nuts...
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[–] PreachCaleb 8 years ago

I was gonna say it might've been the MST3K effect. Where people rate it lower simply because it was riffed by Mike and the bots. But apparently, it's done on purpose.

Let's be bad guys.