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List Price: $19.95 | | Label: Arts Alliance America
Salesrank: 73265
Released: July 15, 2008 |
| Our Price: $10.23 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Visions of who will rule in a post-apocalyptic United States clash wildly between competing bands of survivors. This clever and dark satire is an insightful meditation on the nature of power, corruption, and flesh-eating women. Jane Seymour (Dancing with the Stars, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman) sets the stage as Daniel Baldwin (Paparazzi), and Kevin Wheatley (Red Velvet, Dirt) head up a young, sexy cast.
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell Reviews:
BUMMER 
2009-09-19 - What a title ! Building expectations to something interesting....instead you get a disdainful pieeece. They tryed but failed miserably. I forced my self to watch for maybe half the movie, but felt so cheated for the wasted time. I could have been washing my toilet. Very possibly the poorest result ever put out on film.
Post-Nuke Hilarity! 
2009-09-10 - If you're scratching your head right now and wondering why I'm reviewing a National Lampoon flick, never fear this particular Lampoon production isn't quite what one might expect from the geniuses that brought you Dorm Daze and Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure. No, The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell is a wildly original post-nuke indie comedy that features cannibals, robots, assassins, hillbillies, demons, hot beotches, politicians and a bloated, coked-out Daniel Baldwin.
The acting, as one might expect from an indie production, was occasionally amateurish and some of the dialogue felt ad-libbed but the production design was decent, the mixture of live-action and cell animation was inspired and the wrap-around story featuring History Channel commentary by various authors and historians was delightfully funny. What could have been a poorly written, straight-to-DVD, low budget attempt at sci-fi/comedy with way too much Macintosh CG turned out to be a surprisingly creative genre film that reminded me quite a bit of Six-String Samurai.
The film's got satire and subtext but most viewers are going to be looking for blood, guts, hanging eyeballs, torn out spines, tits, gouges, snapped necks, torn off limbs, bodies on spikes and one of the funniest "scream, faint, scream, faint" sequences I've ever seen and, thankfully, we get it all plus the deep meaning. Truthfully, I'm looking forward to part two if Wheatley and Gillette do indeed decide to further the adventure of New America's political pioneers.
Post Apocalyptic American History... with Robots, Satan, and a cute Cannibal girl 
2009-05-25 - In 2077, a child by the name of Tex Kennedy is placed into a bunker, by himself, before the nukes hit that wipe about 98% of the world's population. In 2097, Tex Kennedy, a grown man now, emerges from the bunker with a mission. To help with the ruling of New America. With his trusty dysfunctional robots, he begins his search for the prophesized Benjamin Remington, the man that will be King of New America. Together, they will need to get to a radio tower to help unite the lone survivors of America. But the tower just happens to be in a certain part of America called, The Threshold of Hell. For some reason, the people here were protected by the blast. Some would think it might be magic, or maybe even the work of Satan. With the help of some unlikely friends, such as a Cannibal Sue and Javier Castro, they must get to the tower, before Benjamin's crazy brother, the Jackal.
The first time I began to watch this, I stopped probably 10 minutes in. I couldn't stand the coloring, and it just seemed very cheap. Then, thanks to me making myself watch all the movies I own in alphabetical order no matter what, I finally got to see this little gem. I honestly laughed quite a lot. Everyone is pretty funny, but Kevin Wheatley (Tex Kennedy) is very funny with his witty lines. The whole story is great, even though filled with plot holes and goofiness. This is definitely not the best movie ever, but for a B-Movie, that is pretty low budget, it's great. It really is. The characters were funny, and some were almost epic, for a movie like this. Even my friend who I was watching this with, who doesn't care for B movies that much, laughed quite a bit too. He said the movie was `Eh', but he still laughed. Also check out the Outtakes, some funny stuff there to. I liked when Tex and the two robots were running up a sandy hill, and one of the robots trips up the other robot and he hits face first into the sand, making them all trip each other up. I laughed pretty hard at that... hehe.
While the movie is low budget, and the story is pretty crazy, the movie was definitely a fun watch. I was definitely surprised. Just make sure you sit through the first 10 or 15 minutes. Give it some patience. Can't wait for the sequel (that they tease you with at the end)!
P.S. - My friend and I joked about how it looked like 95% of the movie was filmed in the same spot. Well I guess it was. IMDB says that most of it was filmed on the beaches of Pensacola, Florida. Man I miss living next door to Pensacola.
Suprisingly good! 
2009-02-20 - My dad gave me this movie to watch and, based on the cover, I thought it was going to be another stupid, National Lampoon sex-comedy. I was very suprised to find that it is very watchable and has an interesting plot. The humor is more character-driven; it isn't all gags. I really liked this movie and would reccomend it to anyone.
I actually turned it off 
2008-11-22 - Unfunny and pretentious. The title is the best thing about this movie!!! This is one of the few movies I have actually turned off before the end.
