Psycho Beach Party
Directed by Robert Lee King
Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.
Where to Watch Psycho Beach Party
- Kevin WardJuly 14, 2025This has a crazy cast for an early 2000’s spoof movie. Lauren Ambrose, Amy Adams, Thomas Gibson and they’re all wonderfully campy in this send up of B-movies/Surfer movies. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much else that worked for me. Much of the humor didn’t really land and most of the kills occur off screen. That means far too little blood and kills for my slasher sensibilities.
- Jacob O’NealJune 16, 2025This movie is so weird and funny that I can’t help but love it in the same way I love Reefer Madness with Kristen Bell or Chillerama’s second story, “The Curse Of The Were-Bear”. It had a great cast of 90’s TV stars and one co-star that went on to be an Oscar winner (Amy Adams won an Oscar right? I stopped caring when this movie wasn’t nominated 🤣). The movie is a playful send up of the beach movies of the 50’s and 60’s that had Sally Field or Frankie Avalon. It was about a girl who is a virgin in 1962. She decides she wants to learn to surf. Only one problem: she has multiple personalities and the surfers are being murdered. Is she the culprit? Is it her mom, the closeted gay surfers, Xander from Buffy, the drag queen police captain or maybe Kanaka, the world’s number one surfer? The movie is filled with those kitschy little moments you’d find in the beach movies of the era. They did well with embracing the time and style of those films while playing g with themes the old movie would never have dreamed. It was like if John Waters made a surf movie if filtered through his Cry-Baby/Hairspray era. The jokes are wry and funny. The dancing scenes are fun. I mean, who can resist dancing to a band made of luchador wrestlers for no reason? I will say that this film is not for everyone. I get that. But if you’re a fan of the odd and offbeat, you’d dig this groovy bit of nostalgia.
Psycho Beach Party Trivia
Psycho Beach Party was released on August 6, 2000.
Psycho Beach Party was directed by Robert Lee King.
Psycho Beach Party has a runtime of 1h 36m.
Psycho Beach Party was produced by Virginia Biddle, Jon Gerrans, Marcus Hu, Victor Syrmis.
Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.
The key characters in Psycho Beach Party are Chicklet / Florence (Lauren Ambrose), Kanaka (Thomas Gibson), Starcat (Nicholas Brendon).
Psycho Beach Party is rated Not Rated.
Psycho Beach Party is a Comedy, Horror, Mystery film.
Psycho Beach Party has an audience rating of 6.7 out of 10.
Psycho Beach Party had a budget of $1.5M.
Psycho Beach Party has made $268K at the box office.