Salli Sachse, who appeared in lots of beach party movies and in the counterculture cult classics The Trip and Wild in the Streets as a contract player for American International Pictures in the 1960s, ...

Before Jaws made us afraid of the water, Hollywood made it the hottest place on Earth — filled with tans, tunes, and teenagers who never stopped dancing. From the late ’50s to the late ’60s, ...

Ahead of a 25th anniversary screening of the cult-beloved midnight movie satire of surf movies and the Gidget character originated by Sandra Dee, screenwriter Charles Busch tells IndieWire why the ...

An actress who had roles in a handful of beach party movies in the 1960s has died at the age of 82. Salli Sachse, who appeared in films such as Beach Blanket Bingo and Bikini Beach, died on September ...

The Beach Boys loom so large in our shared cultural imagination that it’s surprising to remember that the group only appeared in a single feature motion picture. Yes, the “beach party” movies of the ...

After 25 years, a far-out queer cult classic by Charles Busch is getting the Criterion treatment this month. The Psycho Beach Party creator and star recently reacted to the 2000 beach party parody ...

Actor, playwright, and drag legend Charles Busch is at that point of his career where it feels like every other day is some major milestone. This summer alone marks 25 years since the release of ...

Summer is finally here, and nothing evokes the spirit of the season like sand, sun, sweat, and surf. Here, in DECIDER’s A Brief History of Beach Movies, critic Glenn Kenny charts the evolution of one ...

Greek mythology holds that Calliope, the goddess of eloquence and epic poetry, is considered the chief of the Muses. She was the one to whom writers — such as me — would hopefully invoke for ...