The Horror of Party Beach


1h 22m 1964

Brief Synopsis

While the hot rodders and motorcyclists are having a rock-and-roll beach party, a barrel of radioactive material is unloaded from a passing ship, plunges to the bottom and splits against a jagged rock. A black liquid oozes out and covers a shapeless mass on the ocean floor, which suddenly moves and becomes an encrusted vicious monster.Soon there are several monsters and they must have human blood to survive. Tina (Marilyn Clark) is the first victim, and football hero Hank Green (John Scott)and airhead Elaine Gavin (Alice Lyon) enlist the aid of her science-professor father, Dr. Gavin (Allen Laurel), to solve and capture the killer. Not working fast enough to prevent the attack on twenty teen-agers at a slumber party nor the killing of three girl motorists, Dr. Gavin finds an arm lost by one of the monsters and discovers that only sodium will destroy the monsters whose composition is mostly water. Can they gather enough salt in southern California to put an end to this horror?

Film Details

Also Known As
Invasion of the Zombies
Genre
Horror
Musical
Release Date
Jan 1964
Premiere Information
Detroit opening: 1 Apr 1964
Production Company
Inzom Corp.
Distribution Company
Twentieth Century--Fox Film Corp.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 22m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White

Synopsis

A container holding radioactive waste material springs a leak and spills over a human skull at the bottom of the ocean, just off a beach popular with teenagers. Shortly thereafter, the skull turns into a monster and heads for the beach in search of human blood; and it is soon joined by more of its kind. The monsters murder Tina, a young girl alone on the beach, and then attack 20 girls at a seaside slumber party. Police turn to scientist Dr. Gavin for help, and, working with his daughter Elaine and her boyfriend Hank Green, Gavin discovers that sodium, an unstable metal that reacts violently to water, is the only substance capable of destroying the monsters. Elaine finds their hiding place and is nearly killed by the invaders when her father and Hank destroy them.

Film Details

Also Known As
Invasion of the Zombies
Genre
Horror
Musical
Release Date
Jan 1964
Premiere Information
Detroit opening: 1 Apr 1964
Production Company
Inzom Corp.
Distribution Company
Twentieth Century--Fox Film Corp.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 22m
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White

Quotes

Of course! This creature needs the ordinary necessities of human life -- proteins, fats, sugars and so forth. But since his organs are so decomposed it needs the only food which can keep it alive.
- Dr. Gavin
Blood?
- Hank Green
Human blood. If a human body -- a drowned person -- were attacked by tiny sea plants which became parasites and completely infiltrated that human body before it had a chance to decompse, would the body be considered dead or alive?
- Dr. Gavin
Dead?
- Hank Green
No -- it's still alive. But it's changed into a -- well, is it a plant or an animal?
- Dr. Gavin

Trivia

The movie's assistant director Wayne Tippit plays one of the two drunks in the brief scene where the monster gets them.

Notes

Copyright length: 78 min. Location scenes filmed in Stamford, Connecticut. Working title: Invasion of the Zombies.