10 Horror Movies With Scooby Doo Plots

10. The Beach Girls And The Monster

Released by American International Pictures, who’d made a fortune distributing cheap Beach Party films and even cheaper Drive-in horror flicks, The Beach Girls And The Monster is an attempt to combine the two that would be laugh out loud funny if it wasn’t so leaden.

There’s a bunch of wrigglin’, jigglin’ teenagers with nothing better to do than hang out on the beach, having hot dog parties and singing a tune called There’s A Monster In The Surf, which includes the lyric, “Everbody’s sleepin’, monster comes a creepin’, yeah yeah yeah!” But wait a minute – there really is a monster, and before you can say “bimbo burger”, he’s carried off three bikinied blondes.

If you think the shabby-looking monster looks like a man in a costume, that’s because….well, you know where there this is going. It turns out that the oldest cast member (Jon Hall, who also directed) hates kids, so he decided to dress up and punish them. “The boys are nothing but a bunch of loafers and the girls are little tramps,” he tells a cop. “They contribute absolutely nothing to a decent society!”