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After going to the cinema with her friend, Chicklet has a blackout when a murder occurs. Later, through a string of incidents, she 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...
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* EroticEating: Marvel Ann does this with Provoloney (who responds by rubbing an ice-cream sandwich all over his face) at the start.
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* EroticEating: Marvel Ann does this with Provoloney Starcat (who responds by rubbing an ice-cream sandwich all over his face) at the start.
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* [[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).]]
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*[[spoiler:ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: Chicklet ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou: [[spoiler: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).]]
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* [[spoiler:GainaxEnding: It GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: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...)]].
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* [[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?]]
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* [[spoiler:YankTheDogsChain: Chicklet YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler: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.]]
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* 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.
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* MsFanservice: This being a beach movie, girls constantly wearing bikinis is inevitable. Marvel Ann in particular finds herself as one of the biggest examples, intentionally and not.
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* ShamefulStrip: Happens to Marvel Ann (Amy Adams) (Creator/AmyAdams) 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.
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''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...
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...
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''Psycho Beach Party'' is a 2000 Comedy horror 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 [[SlasherMovie slasher films.
films]].
After going to the cinema with her friend, Chicklet has a blackout when a murderoccurs and later, occurs. Later, through a string of incidents, ends up on a surfer beach and persuades the "surfer king" 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...it...
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* GenreThrowback: Beach movies, psychodramas and slasher films all in a very campy/narmy style.
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* TheyDo: [[spoiler:Chicklet and Starcat]], [[spoiler:Kanaka and Monica]] and [[spoiler:Yo-yo and Provoloney]].
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* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:Anne Bowman killing the audience to the film based on Chicklet's life, where the entire film up to that point had been a dream]].
* FemaleGaze: Chicklet's mother, Ruth, is constantly trying to get close to Lars and starring at his very good-looking body.
* TheKillerInMe: Chicklet worries if this is the case. In the end, [[spoiler:it wasn't as it was Lars - though she's in a mental hospital and Anne Bowman is "real"]].
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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...
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AlmostKiss: Berdine was almost about to kiss Chicklet... but they got interrupted, not that Chicklet realised what was happening.
* AssholeVictim: Rhonda, resident disabled jerkass.
* AxeCrazy: The murderer [[spoiler:the not-so-Swedish Lars... or Chicklet's SplitPersonality Ann Bowman]].
* [[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).]]
* ClimbingClimax: [[spoiler:Chicklet]] tries to escape the murderer by climbing up a movie billboard.
* [[spoiler:CruelTwistEnding]]
* DancingTheme: [[MaleGaze And what a lovely]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ3DDHscA28 dance it is, too...]]
* 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.
* DisabledSnarker: Rhonda and her "kisses".
* [[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.]]
* DragQueen: Capt. Monica Shark is played by Charles Busch, who played Chicklet in the Broadway productions.
* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:Lars murdered his entire family when he was younger.]]
* EroticEating: Marvel Ann does this with Provoloney (who responds by rubbing an ice-cream sandwich all over his face) at the start.
* [[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...)]].
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: Played with. [[spoiler:As the number of murders increases, Chicklet presumes she did it because of her oddly timed blackouts when her split personalities took over, but actually she was innocent.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Aunt Zelda]] is [[SixFeetUnder Claire Fisher's]] mother.
** It's [[{{Junebug}} Ashley Johnsten]]!
** Look, it's [[DharmaAndGreg Greg]] and [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]]!
* HoYay: Invoked with Yo-Yo and Provoloney (two of the surfers) who are extremely fond of each other, wrestling, dressing up in women's clothing together... [[spoiler:they date at the end.]] [[invoked]]
** There's also abundant LesYay from Berdine toward Chicklet, who doesn't seem to notice.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Once Chicklet's SplitPersonality has been revealed to everybody, Bettina (the in-universe actress) says she wants to make a broadway production of this story where she would play Chicklet.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: The Great Kanaka is thoroughly interested in Anne Bowman but isn't interested at all in Chicklet.
* [[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.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Great Kanaka, Yo-Yo, Provoloney and Starcat.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Chicklet's split personality has nothing to do with the murders.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:The murderer, Lars.]]
* SerialKiller: The murderer kills people because they're imperfect, being disabled, have an extra toe, one testicle, etc.
* SexierAlterEgo: Anne Bowman, while looking the exact same as Chicklet, acts with much more confidence and showing her body off more.
* ShirtlessScene: All of the surfers show off their chests, and Lars shows his.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Psycho Beach Party'' opens with a movie and eventually the actress from that show would join the group of surfers.
** [[spoiler:Then it's revealed that the entire film up until that point had been a film another group of people had been watching.]]
* SplitPersonality: Chicklet has two, a dominatrix (Anne Bowman) and a SassyBlackWoman.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:It's revealed that Chicklet has forgotten a large part of her childhood because of when she accidentally killed her kid brother.]]
* TwistEnding: Who's the murderer? [[spoiler:That sexy fake Swede, Lars. Except it wasn't him, because all of it was part of Chicklet's imagination and that story (her having the dream) was based on a film and she kills two people from the audience who are watching it...]]
* VirginSacrifice: The surfers want one at their orgy... but we never find out what they had planned.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: The main location is a beach, so loads.
* WildTeenParty: The orgy at the end. Complete with dance-off.
* [[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.]]
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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...
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AlmostKiss: Berdine was almost about to kiss Chicklet... but they got interrupted, not that Chicklet realised what was happening.
* AssholeVictim: Rhonda, resident disabled jerkass.
* AxeCrazy: The murderer [[spoiler:the not-so-Swedish Lars... or Chicklet's SplitPersonality Ann Bowman]].
* [[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).]]
* ClimbingClimax: [[spoiler:Chicklet]] tries to escape the murderer by climbing up a movie billboard.
* [[spoiler:CruelTwistEnding]]
* DancingTheme: [[MaleGaze And what a lovely]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ3DDHscA28 dance it is, too...]]
* 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.
* DisabledSnarker: Rhonda and her "kisses".
* [[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.]]
* DragQueen: Capt. Monica Shark is played by Charles Busch, who played Chicklet in the Broadway productions.
* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler:Lars murdered his entire family when he was younger.]]
* EroticEating: Marvel Ann does this with Provoloney (who responds by rubbing an ice-cream sandwich all over his face) at the start.
* [[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...)]].
* GollumMadeMeDoIt: Played with. [[spoiler:As the number of murders increases, Chicklet presumes she did it because of her oddly timed blackouts when her split personalities took over, but actually she was innocent.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Aunt Zelda]] is [[SixFeetUnder Claire Fisher's]] mother.
** It's [[{{Junebug}} Ashley Johnsten]]!
** Look, it's [[DharmaAndGreg Greg]] and [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Xander]]!
* HoYay: Invoked with Yo-Yo and Provoloney (two of the surfers) who are extremely fond of each other, wrestling, dressing up in women's clothing together... [[spoiler:they date at the end.]] [[invoked]]
** There's also abundant LesYay from Berdine toward Chicklet, who doesn't seem to notice.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Once Chicklet's SplitPersonality has been revealed to everybody, Bettina (the in-universe actress) says she wants to make a broadway production of this story where she would play Chicklet.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: The Great Kanaka is thoroughly interested in Anne Bowman but isn't interested at all in Chicklet.
* [[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.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Great Kanaka, Yo-Yo, Provoloney and Starcat.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Chicklet's split personality has nothing to do with the murders.]]
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:The murderer, Lars.]]
* SerialKiller: The murderer kills people because they're imperfect, being disabled, have an extra toe, one testicle, etc.
* SexierAlterEgo: Anne Bowman, while looking the exact same as Chicklet, acts with much more confidence and showing her body off more.
* ShirtlessScene: All of the surfers show off their chests, and Lars shows his.
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Psycho Beach Party'' opens with a movie and eventually the actress from that show would join the group of surfers.
** [[spoiler:Then it's revealed that the entire film up until that point had been a film another group of people had been watching.]]
* SplitPersonality: Chicklet has two, a dominatrix (Anne Bowman) and a SassyBlackWoman.
* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler:It's revealed that Chicklet has forgotten a large part of her childhood because of when she accidentally killed her kid brother.]]
* TwistEnding: Who's the murderer? [[spoiler:That sexy fake Swede, Lars. Except it wasn't him, because all of it was part of Chicklet's imagination and that story (her having the dream) was based on a film and she kills two people from the audience who are watching it...]]
* VirginSacrifice: The surfers want one at their orgy... but we never find out what they had planned.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: The main location is a beach, so loads.
* WildTeenParty: The orgy at the end. Complete with dance-off.
* [[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.]]
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