The recent series on beach party movies got us thinking about the movie stardom of Frankie Avalon. Because for a while there, in the mid-1960s, at the height of beach
The fourth and final part of a series on Beach Party movies examines the end of the cycle, and its legacy. As mentioned in a previous piece in this series,
Part three of our series on Beach Party movies looks at the year 1965, when the genre peaked and cannibalised itself. One of the problems in exploiting a film “cycle”
Part two in Stephen Vagg’s series on the Beach Party films, examines 1964’s entries in the franchise – Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach, and Pajama Party – plus attempts from
In honour of summertime, Stephen Vagg revisits the movie that spawned the beach party genre, 1963’s Beach Party. I remember when I first heard about the phenomena that was the