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1	* AngstWhatAngst:
2	** Less than a month after his girlfriend gets killed by a monster, Hank returns to the very beach she died on and comments to a band member "pretty dead tonight, huh, Ron?" Ron even notes how things have gotten dull since Tina was killed. And not in a mournful way, either.
3	** Elaine is fretting about being attracted to Hank, but feels guilty since it's because Tina is dead. Her father urges her to go after him - and does this ''while Elaine is going to her funeral''.
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The Del Aires were a moderately successful UsefulNotes/NewJersey-based band.
5	* DesignatedHero: Hank. He's a guy who hates fun, for some reason about being too old. The fight on the beach is caused by his girlfriend's flirting... the girlfriend he broke up with not five minutes ago. He actually starts the fight, and comes close to actually ''killing the lead biker by strangling him.'' He also gives up way too easily in tracking down the sodium to kill the monsters, to the point that when Eulabelle convinces him to get off his ass and try the rest of the names in the phone book, literally the very next one he calls has some.
6	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Eulabelle. She's the only character to have any sort of personality, which happens to be quite lovable, and she's the character who really contributes most to moving the plot along: first by discovering that sodium can kill the monsters; then by persuading Hank to get off his ass and go track down some sodium; and finally by mentioning Fingal's Quarry to Dr. Gavin, which turns out to be a vital clue that he failed to consider, even as he is [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] how obvious it should have been.
7	* FairForItsDay: Eulabelle's characterization is based off the very dated [[EthnicMenialLabor "mammy" archetype]], with a few silly superstitions thrown in for good measure. However, she's also the only person who actually moves the slow plot along and comes across as the smartest person in it in her efforts to do so. She even figures out how to kill the monsters, ''and'' kicks Hank's ass verbally when he tries to give up finding sodium!
8	* FetishRetardant: The "[[DawsonCasting young people]]" on the beach dancing... [[{{Padding}} and dancing]]... Well, except for the inexplicable hot Romulan girl. The leads' romance is tepid at best, as well. The reason? [[IncestuousCasting They're brother and sister]]. Yes, [[{{Squick}} they share a kiss in the film]].
9	* ItsNotSupposedToWinOscars: Del Tenney's response to those who criticized it. He wasn't trying to make high art; he just wanted to make a movie that would make money (which it did) and have fun doing it. To that end, he succeeded.
10	* NightmareRetardant: Any attempt at horror is lost by the monsters' incredibly silly designs. To say nothing of the quality of the costumes.
11	* {{Padding}}:
12	** After the revelation that elemental sodium can kill the creatures, the movie goes into a long segment of the scientists trying to figure out how to find the creatures, where to get the sodium, and other tedious minutiae that drags out a long time and probably should have been cut.
13	** The "beach" sequence at the beginning of the film -- complete with awkward dancing, rock performances, and corny jokes, [[FollowTheLeader in a poor imitation of AIP's own recent slate of successful beach movies]] -- serves no narrative purpose, and seems to have been included just so Tenney could semi-credibly bill it as a hybrid teen comedy / monster movie with original music.
14	** The scenes with [[DevelopingDoomedCharacters the visiting girls from New York and the two drunks]], both of which last interminably long and don't have much of a satisfying payoff for how annoying the characters are; worse, the film uses them to include ''more'' bad humor.
15	* QuestionableCasting: Who in their right mind casts a brother and sister to [[IncestuousCasting play the romantic leads in their movie]]?
16	* SpecialEffectFailure: The eponymous Horrors look like some strange combination of fish, frog, and hapless actor in a bad suit. The mysterious tubes resembling pickles that jut out of their mouths are more baffling than intimidating, and even with these drawbacks, the film still manages to screw up the costume on a few occasions.
17	* WTHCostumingDepartment: The monster suits in general are rough, but the sausage-mouths are particularly bad -- the actors inside were forced to paw their victims, since there was no clear way they could bite them, and what function these things serve (scrubbing villi?) is left to the viewer's imagination. (According to cast members, including band members from the Del-Aires who saw the costumes before filming, the sausages were in fact the fingers of rubber gloves, stuffed and spray-painted; the eyes were painted ping-pong balls. ) Even the producers apparently realized how absurd they were after shooting; both the [[https://fffmovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/57367.jpg theatrical poster]] and comic adaptation instead depict the Horrors as having fangs, with the latter [[http://www.mrpevney.com/images/comics/horrorPartyBeach/horrorPartyBeach_53.jpg touching up film stills just to hide them]].

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