History Film / TheHorrorOfPartyBeach

* TheAlcoholic: "Today Tina and alcohol are going to have a great cocktail!"
** Two of the victims are clearly drunks.
** Also, HypocriticalHumor, as one of the drunk guys says he hates drunks.

*** Also, the sodium is what reacts in that relationship, not the water. So there's absolutely no logical reason why gently brushing against a piece of sodium would cause the creatures themselves to violently disintegrate.

* BucketBoobyTrap: During the slumber party.
* ButNotTooWhite: Hank and Elaine are both blond and bland. We're talking Wonder bread and mayonnaise here.

* DecoyProtagonist: Hank, Elaine, and Doctor Gavin are presumably the heroes of the movie, but almost every time the plot moves forward, it's because of Eulabelle's actions or her exhortations to the protagonists.

** Which leads to a quite hilarious couple of lines from the SOL when the drunks fall victim to the monsters.

* HollywoodVoodoo: Eulabelle even has a VoodooDoll.

** Or:
--->[[[MaleGaze close-up of a gal's bikini bottom]], shakin' to the music as two guys stare]\\

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Inverted. Of all the (known) victims of the monsters, and that's a lot, only three are male.

* MonsterMisogyny: Twenty-four on-screen female deaths, not counting Victim Montages, compared to ''three'' killed males. "You think a lot of guys who make movies have issues with women?"

* ReligionIsMagic: Eulabelle owns a VoodooDoll.

* TemptingFate[=/=]{{Retirony}}: Tina complains about how strait-laced Hank is and says "You go your way and I'll go mine, and we'll see who gets the most out of life!" About ten minutes later, she's dead in part because of her lack of inhibitions[[note]]Her flirting was what sparked the fight, and the cold shoulder Hank gave her afterwards is why she ran off[[/note]]. To be fair, dull, charmless Hank could live to 90 and not have gotten more out of life than Tina.

** In addition to this, when the police aren't sure what the monsters are, they use carbon 14 testing to check their genes. Carbon 14 is only useful for determining age, not genetic makeup.

** The frog-fish monster things are apparently human corpses whose every organ and tissue have been replaced with sea life, making them a "giant protozoa."

Oh, there's also a replacement love interest for Hank named Elaine, but she doesn't do much besides not die. And all her dialogue has been redubbed by someone even older for some reason.

* {{Joisey}}: The setting of the film. None of the main characters sport an accent.

[[Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures "The first horror monster musical,"]] released in 1964 by director Del Tenney. It is not a real musical, as it spends the first ten minutes with some musical accompaniment.

* ReplacementLoveInterest: Apart from about a minute of angst on Elaine's part, Hank and Elaine seem perfectly okay with hooking up, about ''two weeks'' after Tina's death. To be fair, he pretty much broke with her at the beach.

*** In addition to this, when the police aren't sure what the monsters are, they use carbon 14 testing to check its genes. Carbon 14 is only useful for determining age, not genetic makeup.

* EthnicMenialLabor: Eulabelle is an example of the "mammy" archetype. That being said, she’s the only proactive character, everybody else in this movie just reacts to things rather than taking any initiative.

* EthnicMenialLabor: Eulabelle is an example of the "mammy" archetype.

* HardWorkMontage: Botched, terribly. There's an extended sequence of both the police and Doctor Gavin laboring mightily to find a way to stop the monsters, while the monsters themselves prey on at least three other young women -- except Dr. Gavin already ''knows'' what kills them by this point, and yet hasn't gone to the floundering police with his discovery, making everyone look worse than useless.

* MightyWhitey: Hank seems to think of himself as this, as seen in Brief Accent Imitation above.

** The frog-fish monster things are apparently human corpses whose every organ and tissue have been replaced with sea life, making them a "giant protozoa." In RealLife, protozoans are single-celled organisms.

* TemptingFate[=/=]{{Retirony}}: Tina complains about how strait-laced Hank is and says "You go your way and I'll go mine, and we'll see who gets the most out of life!" About ten minutes later, she's dead in part because of her lack of inhibitions[[note]]Her flirting was what sparked the fight, and the cold shoulder Hank gave her afterwards is why she ran off[[/note]].

* DawsonCasting: Elaine calls Doctor Gavin "Daddy" in every other line of dialogue but if she didn't you'd think she was his wife, as they both look about forty.

Because it's a "monster musical," the first three hours of this 78-minute film take place at a beach where [[DawsonCasting suspiciously]] [[TheyJustDidntCare middle-aged]] [[DawsonCasting teens]] boogie to a live band while making lame attempts at humor. A college grad named Hank and his immature and unpleasant lady pal Tina drop by. The two bicker, Tina's flirting sparks a brawl with a biker gang, and finally the girl runs off to go swimming and is killed by a monster.

* HollywoodVoodoo: Eulebelle even has a VoodooDoll.

%%* ButNotTooWhite: We're talking Wonder bread and mayonnaise here.

Turns out someone's been dumping barrels of radioactive waste into the ocean, causing the skeletal crew of a sunken ship to mutate into frog-fish things that proceed to hunt down and kill every young woman they can find. The elderly and ineffectual Dr. Gavin, assisted accidentally by [[EthnicMenialLabor black servant Eulabelle]], discovers that the things are vulnerable to sodium. Taking their time, the heroes eventually get around to tracking down the monsters' lair (as the kill count climbs ever higher), work up the energy to get a load of sodium, and then throw it on the horrors of Party Beach.

* DecoyProtagonist: Hank, Elaine, Dr. Gavin are presumably the heroes of the movie, but almost every time the plot moves forward, it's because of Eulabelle's actions.

* FaceRevealingTurn: Completely and utterly botched via BehindTheBlack. A drunk guy finds someone slumped in a wrecked car, and chats amiably until the (breathing) corpse's head [[BehindTheBlack turns to the camera]], revealing half his face is a bloody mess. Except the drunk was staring at the wound ''the entire time'' and only reacted when it became visible to the audience.

* JustForPun: The movie features tons of puns that six year olds would find unfunny. Example:
-->"Do you like bathing beauties?"
-->"I don't know. I've never bathed one!"

* RhymesOnADime: Eulabelle uses occasional but ubiquitously pointless rhymes as homilies: "You don't see me sittin' around moanin' and groanin' all day." "What are y'all doin' sneekin' and peekin' in the dark for?" It's the most fun you'll get out of this movie, and the best acting performance given.

* UseYourHead: In a move which has wisely not been adopted by professional fighters, the biker gang uses their leader as a battering ram. But then again, Hank stood still.

* BriefAccentImitation: Hank puts on a Southern accent whenever he speaks to Eulabelle; there doesn't seem to be any reason for this, almost making it look like he's talking down to her. Which doesn't work because Eulabelle actually does some thing useful.