History Film / PsychoBeachParty

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:Chicklet and Starcat]], [[spoiler:Kanaka and Monica]] and [[spoiler:Yo-yo and Provoloney]].

* SexyWalk: Marvel Ann does a super-exaggerated sway as she heads over to the hunks.

After going to the cinema with her friend, Chicklet has a blackout when a murder occurs. Later, through a string of incidents, ends up on a surfer beach and persuades the "surfer king", Kanaka, to teach her how to surf, joining the local gang of surfers. Getting caught in the mixed of a LoveTriangle, more murders occur as the actress from the earlier film lives in a rumoured HauntedHouse where a family was murdered. As the police get closer to the murder, Chicklet worries whether her SplitPersonalities have anything to do with it...

* EroticEating: Marvel Ann does this with Provoloney (who responds by rubbing an ice-cream sandwich all over his face) at the start.

* [[spoiler:BookEnds: It starts with people watching a cheesy horror film at a drive-in cinema when somebody gets killed. That movie was a movie that other people were watching when they get killed (implied death, anyway).]]
* [[spoiler:ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: Chicklet says exactly this at the end of the film when she wakes up at the mental hospital, recognising the staff as the murder victims from her dream (the rest of the film).]]

* [[spoiler:CruelTwistEnding]]

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Just when it seems it would end nicely, it's revealed to all have been a dream that Chicklet is having in a mental hospital, which turned out to be a movie based on a true story and Chicklet got out.]]

* [[spoiler:GainaxEnding: It was all about surfers, obvious ChromaKey, parody of campy psycho films and the last few moments are of Chicklet in a mental hospital getting shock therapy and the rest of the film had all been a dream... except that scene was in a film that people were watching that was based on a true story and those people get killed by Chicklet (who wasn't the murderer in the film we just saw, anyway...)]].

* [[spoiler:MandatoryTwistEnding: It was a parody of psychodramas and slasher films, how could it NOT have a massive twist at the end?]]
* [[spoiler:MindScrew: The ending. It was all a dream Chicklet had in a mental hospital. Did ''any'' of the film take place or was she put away after her brother's death but before the "movie" could take place? Next if some of it did happen was she the actual murderer instead of Lars? Did Rhonda actually get killed or was she an extra victim slotted in so Chicklet could make sense of the murders? How much of the movie being watched at the end actually happen in Chicklet's world? Did the in-universe makers of that film change a lot to make it interesting, even changing the murderer to Lars? Did the entire movie happen, but afterward Chicklet got worse again and later became a murderer after the trauma of Lars trying to kill her?]]

* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead: Rhonda is shown alive as a nurse at Chicklet's hospital, so the other victims may be alive as well.]]

* [[spoiler:YankTheDogsChain: Chicklet has been cured of her mental illness, has sorted out her past trauma, has escaped the murderer, and has a boyfriend who loves her--that was all a dream and she lives a horrid life in a mental hospital getting shock therapy.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Aunt Zelda]] is [[SixFeetUnder Claire Fisher's]] mother.
** It's [[Film/{{Junebug}} Ashley Johnsten]]!
** Look, it's [[Series/DharmaAndGreg Greg]] and [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]]!

* DawsonCasting: Averted. Charles Busch was tempted to play Chicklet in the film but decided that while he could get away as playing such a young woman on stage, on film it would be entirely different.

** It's [[{{Junebug}} Ashley Johnsten]]!

* ShamefulStrip: Happens to Marvel Ann (Amy Adams) when she breaks up with her boyfriend; he tries to get his pin from her, which is attached to her bikini bottoms, and then he accidentally rips her bikini bottoms off, exposing her lower half for all the beach to see - and forcing her to run off while trying to cover herself ineffectually.

** Look, it's [[DharmaAndGreg Greg]] and [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]]!

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Aunt Zelda]] is [[SixFeetUnder Claire Fisher's]] mother.

''Psycho Beach Party'' is a 2000 Comedy horror film based on the off-Broadway play of the same name, directed by Robert Lee King. Charles Busch wrote both the original play and the screenplay. As the title suggests, ''Psycho Beach Party'', set in 1962 Malibu Beach, is a parody of 1950s psychodramas, 1960s beach movies and 1970s slasher films.

After going to the cinema with her friend, Chicklet has a blackout when a murder occurs and later, through a string of incidents, ends up on a surfer beach and persuades the "surfer king" to teach her how to surf, joining the local gang of surfers. Getting caught in the mixed of a LoveTriangle, more murders occur as the actress from the earlier film lives in a rumoured HauntedHouse where a family was murdered. As the police get closer to the murder, Chicklet worries whether her SplitPersonalities have anything to do with it...

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Chicklet's split personality has nothing to do with the murders.]]

** Look, it's [[DharmaAndGreg Greg]] and [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]]!