Just curious of while you were picking up "Horror Of Party Beach", you ever came across Creature From The Haunted Sea (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054768/), which manages to spoof both similar monster movies and spy movies at the same time...
I have it on DVD and for awhile it was my "pop in something stupid as I drift off to sleep" choice.
Hey, another movie with a carpet monster with ping pong ball eyes. Loved the spy spoof plot.
At least this one had the common sense to say "If you're monster has ping ong eyes, *don't* try to take yourself seriously"
Own it.
Love it.
Watch it often.
The song is especially touching --
A genuinely psychotic picture, with its bizarro beatnik lovers who communicate through animal sounds and the "spy guy" and his paranoid solutions to the small problems of life: "Hey! We could swim there through shark-infested waters -- noone would follow us!!".
Truely one to cherish and admire --
peter johnson/denny crane
I do have this one and have even seen it on the big screen before at B-Fest. Well, at least some of it, because it was on in the early morning hours when I often catch some Z's.
"The Horror of Party Beach" is more fun to me, but I think that might be from the film makers being more serious. I mean, hey, they really were making an edgy monster movie about killer bass/men attacking people in CT.
As if on cue, if you happen by a supermarket checkout, glance at the latest "Weekly World News"
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