BIKINI BEACH (1964)

Those wacky young kids are at it again!  Rolling up to the beach in some ROAD WARRIOR hippie bus, the kids are surprised to discover, that camped out right next to them is the world famous rock star (and Austin Powers impersonator) Potato Bug!   He sings a song and this gets all of the girl's pussies so wet that they start passing out.  Off to the side, poor Frankie is still trying to get some poontang off of Annette, but it ain't happening.  To add insult to injury, when Annette's not busy rejecting Frankie...she's making goo-goo eyes at Potato Bug!  That's just terrible.  Naturally, to settle things, Frankie challenges Potato Bug to a drag race using actual drag race cars on a real track.  Don't even ask how that's even possible.  And while you're not asking about that, also don't ask about the rich old dude who's trained a chimpanzee to surf, dance and drive...all in the hopes of making the surfers look stupid.  The chimpanzee also has a cool-looking hawk that hangs out with him.

BIKINI BEACH is a fun installment in the Beach series.  The story is light-hearted, tons of hot chicks in skimpy bikinis, Jody McCrea as Deadhead, Boris Karloff cameo, corny humor, Eric Von Zipper is back(!!!), Don Rickles trying to be funny, a number of good songs (my favorite was "Gotcha Where I Wantcha" by The Exciters Band...that was a damn good song!), impressive duel role performance by Frankie Avalon, a Timothy Carey sighting and Candy Johnson dancing again during the ending credits.

If you've already watched the first two Beach movies then you know exactly what you're getting into.  Recommended.

Part 1 - Beach Party (1963)
Part 2 - Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Part 4 - Pajama Party (1964)
Part 5 - Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Part 6 - How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
Part 7 - The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
Part 8 - Back to the Beach (1987)

THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI (1966)

What the fark?  Boris Karloff dies and his spirit is woken up by the ghost of his ex-girlfriend who's been dead for 32 years.  He doesn't think it strange as she tells him that if he does a good deed within the next 24 hours he'll be allowed into Heaven and his ghost made young again...in order to have sex with with her in Heaven, I guess.  Anyway, he decides his good deed will be to save his heirs from his evil, murderous lawyer.  Why the fuck would you have a lawyer who's also a serial killer?!!!!!!!!?

So the heirs (and 50 of their closest pool partying friends) show up at this creepy-looking mansion for the will reading at midnight.  To pass the time until midnight they sing, swim in the pool, flirt and dance.  During all this, the evil lawyer has enlisted the help of some killers to try and murder the heirs in all kinds of horrible ways like axes, a hammer and even cutting in half on a giant saw!  There's also a random gang of biker idiots who are easily the funniest part of the movie.  When the leader, Eric Von Zipper, fell through that secret door I laughed for like 5 minutes straight.  I literally had to pause the movie I was laughing so hard.

For what it is...and I don't even know what it is, THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI is funny in a stupid live action "Scooby-Doo" kind of way.  I imagine that 99.69% of the population would dislike this movie, but for whatever reason I was cracking up the entire movie.

Update: Well, I'm an idiot.  I just figured out that this is one of the original "Beach Party" movies.  It was suppose to star Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, but they passed and starred in FIREBALL 500 instead.

Part 1 - Beach Party (1963)
Part 2 - Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Part 3 - Bikini Beach (1964)
Part 4 - Pajama Party (1964)
Part 5 - Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Part 6 - How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
Part 8 - Back to the Beach (1987)

It's the nosy neighbor from ROSEMARY'S BABY.

 Is that one dude making the jacking off hand motion?!