Before Jaws made us afraid of the water, Hollywood made it the hottest place on Earth — filled with tans, tunes, and ...

Salli Sachse, who appeared in lots of beach party movies and in the counterculture cult classics The Trip and Wild in the Streets as a contract player for American International Pictures in the 1960s, ...

You may have seen “Psycho Beach Party,” director Robert Lee King and writer Charles Busch’s wickedly funny send-up of classic Hollywood, while surfing on late-night cable channels in the early aughts.

This summer alone marks 25 years since the release of Psycho Beach Party, the film adaptation of his long-running beach movie parody, and 40 years since Vampire Lesbians Of Sodom opened off-Broadway, ...

The Beach Boys loom so large in our shared cultural imagination that it’s surprising to remember that the group only appeared in a single feature motion picture. Yes, the “beach party” movies of the ...

At the Found Footage Festival, computer historian Jason Scott was exposed for the first time to an 80s film called Computer Beach Party. It was such an outrageous pile of insanity that he had to find ...

Greek mythology holds that Calliope, the goddess of eloquence and epic poetry, is considered the chief of the Muses. She was the one to whom writers — such as me — would hopefully invoke for ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. This week I attended a 30th anniversary screening of “Speed” as part of Beyond Fest at the ...

Ahead of a 25th anniversary screening of the cult-beloved midnight movie satire of surf movies and the Gidget character originated by Sandra Dee, screenwriter Charles Busch tells IndieWire why the ...