{"id":25865,"date":"2019-10-05T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T15:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=25865"},"modified":"2019-10-05T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T15:41:04","slug":"the-horror-of-party-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/05\/the-horror-of-party-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horror of Party Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Horror of Party Beach\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/2419283099\/stats\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/2244\/2419283099_f6edc47408_z.jpg?resize=492%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Horror of Party Beach\" width=\"492\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>One of my all time favorite, <em>so-bad-it&#8217;s-good<\/em>, horror films is available in a beautiful, high definition transfer on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Horror-Party-Beach-John-Scott\/dp\/B07YKB6Z63\/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=horror+of+party+beach&amp;qid=1570289096&amp;sr=8-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon&#8217;s Prime<\/a>. <em>The Horror of Party Beach<\/em> is\u00a0 the only beach party movie to have been made in Connecticut, and other than it&#8217;s New England location, it shares more than a passing resemblance to Steven Spielberg&#8217;s <em>Jaws.<\/em> I often watch <em>Party Beach<\/em> as part of double bill with it&#8217;s more famous <em>knock-off<\/em> as part of an Independence Day celebration, but it looks like Amazon added a lot of horror content for Halloween. Get in the spirit of the holiday with some <em>schlock!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all time favorite, so-bad-it&#8217;s-good, horror films is available in a beautiful, high definition transfer on Amazon&#8217;s Prime. The Horror of Party Beach is\u00a0 the only beach party movie to have been made in Connecticut, and other than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/10\/05\/the-horror-of-party-beach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82,26,3456],"tags":[4139,333,3668,4775,3881,185,4098],"class_list":["post-25865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween","category-stuff-joe-likes","category-weird-world-of-the-roku","tag-amazon","tag-connecticut","tag-halloween","tag-horror-of-party-beach","tag-prime","tag-roku","tag-streaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6Jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2819,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/05\/15\/sunday-matinee\/","url_meta":{"origin":25865,"position":0},"title":"Sunday Matinee","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey, kids, it's a new category - Sunday Matinee! 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