The Beach Girls and the Monster

The Beach Girls and the Monster

This is one a one groovy bad flick!

The Beach Girls and the Monster, also known as Monster From the Surf is everything you want it to be. In what must have passed for high concept to the Poverty Row B movie studios of the 60s, a film that combines the 60s beach blanket trend with the monster movie trend.

Yes it has a silly simple plot - and a corny looking rubber suit monster (although in its defense, there is a good reason for the monster looking fake), as well as terrible dialogue. But it also has all the best tropes from it's cross-genre parentage: mid Century"Modern" set design, groovy music by Frank Sinatra Jr., including surf guitars and bongos, dancers (from the Whiskey a Go Go) dancing on the beach in bikinis, campfire sing-a-longs, an extended gratuitous surf sequence - you name it.

For lovers of camp, this must be seen - it is to surf subculture what A Bucket of Blood was to beatnik subculture.