Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Jon Hall must have been desperately in need of money to get involved in this beached whale of a movie where he not only starred in but also directed. Hall as famed Oceanologist Dr. Otto Lindsey is trying to get his son Rich,Arnold Lissing, to follow in his footsteps as an expert on marine biology. Rich in fact has been spoiled by the biology or hard bodies of the local teens and collage students. Rich in fact wants to live a care-fee life on the beach dancing singing, which he does badly and off key, and fooling around with the sexy girls who spend all day and night wiggling their curvy busts and shapely behinds at him. It's just then that this monster emerges from the deep and starts knocking off all of Rich's friends. The monster looking like someone wearing a Halloween mask and covered with seaweed is suspected to be something out of the pre-historic age that somehow survived by being in a state of suspended animation. That's until the nuclear tests of the 1950's and 60's in the Pacific Ocean borough it back to life.All the evidence of the monster murderous activities seem to point at Rick's best friend the disabled, due to a car accident, Mark, Walker Edmiston, who was at the scene of its latest murder beach boy Tom,Dale Davis. ***SPOILER***As Rich soon finds out his dad Dr. Otto has been somehow involved in these beach murders since he found his ungrateful wife Vicky Sue, Rich's step-Mon, fooling abound with the young men on the beach while he was working hard in his study. One of them being Rich's friend Tom! Did Dr. Otto Lindsey somehow bring this sea monster to life to do his dirty work? Or better yet did he do it himself and have the so-called sea monster take to rap for him!***SPOILERS*** Out of control ending as Dr. Otto Lindsey is caught in the act of murdering Tom and then takes off in Rich's girlfriend's Jane, Elaine DuPont, car in what turned out to be a ride straight into hell. Wounded during his fight with Tom Dr. Otto had trouble controlling the wheel and finally lost control and fell off a cliff totally immolating himself. That's what we were shown at the end of the movie but strangely enough his body was never discovered opening the door for a part II version of the movie. Sadly enough Jon Hall never lived to make it passing away by shooting himself in December 1979 while suffering from the ravages of terminal cancer.

JasparLamarCrabb One of the worst movies ever made. A sea monster attacks teenagers on the beach, but that doesn't stop the kids from hanging around, building bonfires, singing songs and dancing (A LOT). With some of the lousiest production values imaginable and awkward direction from one time actor Jon (THE HURRICANE) Hall. Renaissance man Hall also did the cinematography...which is either too dark or too light depending upon the time of day. He also plays Dr. Otto Lindsay, father of surfer Richard Lindsay, whose friends are among the victims. Sue Casey, who later appeared in everything from CAMELOT to PAINT YOUR WAGON plays Hall's bitchy wife. She's wasted in this ludicrous production. The teenagers, who make the BEACH PARTY gang look like geniuses, is a woeful pack of bad actors & actresses. The intrusive, always out of place faux-jazz score is credited to 21-year old Frank Sinatra Jr.(!)

CromeRose I love this movie. It's one of my favorite really bad films ever. I first saw this on TV while growing up in Melbourne Australia. It was called Monster From the Surf on TV. My best friend and I used to sit up all night on Saturday's and watch The Late Movie, The Late, Late Movie, The Late, Late, Late Movie (I kid you not) and The Early Movie. I think this one was The Late, Late, Late Movie. It was one of our favorites - and I'm sure there were more scenes with the monster than there are on the DVD version; however my memory could be flawed as it was over three decades ago since I first saw it. Sure it's really cheaply done and very B Grade, maybe even Z Grade, but I love it and will always have fond memories of it. **UPDATE** as of watching this again a couple days ago (it's now April 8, 2017) My goodness it's cheesy and slow-paced, and the monster is laughable...but I still love it! I've got the US release on DVD, but I originally saw the international cut which was called Monster from the Surf. The differences? Well, the opening titles of the US version feature the Watusi Dancing troupe from the Whisky-A-Go-Go club wiggling in their bikinis to a slightly faster version of the surfing music - while the international opening credits has a slower version of the music playing over the surfing footage that is watched by Rich and Mark during the movie. Personally, I prefer the US version with the girls wiggling in their bikinis. Another thing I noticed during my latest viewing was that when the "kids" are partying on the beach, they play that surf music on their boom box A LOT! In real life, they'd get bored with it real quick, especially the girls. But all-in-all... as bad as this movie is, it's still great.

El Bacho ... when you see a boom mike in the trailer!"The Beach Girls and the Monster" features a clear shot of Sue Casey speaking on the phone during the trailer. With a boom mike above her. And the perch.The movie itself has a delightful scraping the barrel approach when it comes to exploitation. You can find the two main sub-genres from the 60's b-movies melting: the monster movie and the beach movie. Both aspects are indeed badly done. The monster is everything but frightening and one has to wonder why any of his victims hadn't the idea to kick him between the legs. And the beach part is so cliché ridden it looks like a "Lord Loves A Duck" sequence, except for the fact that "Lord Loves A Duck" was a parody (also featuring boom mikes on screen). There's for instance, for comic relief, a ventriloquist and his lion Kingsley who duets with the girls on a corny song. Actually, he could be the worst ventriloquist on Earth: he carries a false beard to hide his moving lips.Then, you find all the features of cheap exploitation movies. Washed-out actors playing the parts of supposedly attractive characters. "Teenagers" that were last seen in high school 15 before the shooting. Big names on the credits, like Frank Sinatra. Even if you must add "Jr" as that's his son, Frank Jr, and he merely wrote the score (mostly lounge jazz and a few Beach Boys attempts). Actually, Mark (Walter Edmiston) looks a little like Sinatra as the sculptor that Sue Casey teases. (By the way, his sculptures are not exactly flattering even for a fading beauty like Ms Casey.)Jon Hall, for his only directing credit, shot the thing cheaply and quickly. His house was a convenient place for inner shots and he tends to use zooming extensively to end a scene without making another shot. It's irritating even when it's Luchino Visconti who's directing and Jon Hall is apparently no Visconti.And there's the story, or indeed the lack of story. You also know that a movie has got a problem when Robert Silliphant is credited for "additional dialogue". Silliphant took a writing hand in both "The Creeping Terror" and "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?". In other words, he's responsible for two of the lamest screenplays of all times! "The Beach Girls and the Monster" is his third and final screen credit. So I have to wonder how much Silliphant improved the original screenplay.On the plus side, the girls on the beach (actually the dancing troupe from the Whisky-A-Go- Go club) have tight bikinis and giggles as if they were Shakira's mother. Or grandmother. So, every movie has a redeeming quality.