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Psycho Beach Party (2000)
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Psycho Beach Party on Reel 13
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"I was truly good and excited about the airing of PSYCHO BEACH PARTY (based on Charles Busch's one-man stage show) on Reel 13 on November 1st. I have a lot of good friends in the world of theatre and many of them are big fans of Charles Busch. I had heard great things about this film and the cast alone is enough to warrant excitement – Lauren Ambrose, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"'s Nicholas Brendan, Thomas Gibson and Oscar-nominee Amy Adams seems like a dream team for this sort of an endeavor. Unfortunately, the end result didn't come close to the hype.The material is pretty much there. I think the failure of PSYCHO BEACH PARTY is a failure of film direction. Firstly, the film is very empty (why is there no one ever on the beach?!?) and while I realize that is a budgetary issue, it is a costly problem, especially when trying to do a parody of this kind. If the film wants to ape Gidget, Frankie and Annette films, surfer movies, slasher movies, The Three Faces of Eve and Joan Craw ... "
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"Released: January 23, 2000 (Sundance Film Festival)Director: Robert Lee King*****A tongue-in-cheek send up of vastly different genres (beach blanket films, romances, thrillers), Psycho Beach Party relies primarily on the audience's familiarity with those types of films to bring its humor across. A few sparse moments of out and out comedy are present, such as Charles Busch playing a female detective, but they are few and far between for most audience's taste. The best way to describe it? High camp.At a drive in theater, a teenager is killed. The entire beach side town is on alert. Teenage Florence (Lauren Ambrose, perhaps the best thing the film has going for it) doesn't care: she makes her way to the ocean with an uglier friend...and a "better looking" one. There, her interest in surfing is rebuffed by, quite obviously, good looking guys. She lands on the doorstep of surfing legend Kanaka (Thomas Gibson), who teaches her to ride the waves, thus bringing her into the exclusiv ... "
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