![]() ![]() ![]() The final beach party movie produced by American International Pictures, the originator of the genre, "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini," features a blend of the beach party and "The Old Dark House" genres as a bunch of dancing teens are kept in a decrepit mansion full of weird characters and supernatural experiences. Von Zipper is an ineffectual bully who runs his own biker gang, the Rat Pack. While parodying a specific biker-movie cliche, Eddie also has his roots in the Eric Von Zipper role played by Harvey Lembeck in the '60s series of beach party movies. Many of the characters in the film reflect certain archetypes that found themselves appearing again and again in B-movie pictures, from the chaste and dull leads of Brad and Janet to "The Wild Angels"-esque Eddie, played by musician Meatloaf in the film. They range from the obvious - the song "Over at the Frankenstein Place," Magenta's "Bride of Frankenstein" hairdo in the final moments of the film -to the more subtle and obscure - Riff Raff attacking Rocky with the candlestick mirrors Fritz attacking the Monster in "Frankenstein," and the creation of Rocky features identical machinery and costuming as the creation of the monster in Hammer's "Curse of Frankenstein." Throughout the film are frequent references to both the Universal Frankenstein series from the '30s and '40s and the Hammer Frankenstein series which ran in the '50s and '60s. Frank-N-Furter, is the highlight of Fox's lackluster remake of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." MUST CREDIT: Steve Wilkie, Fox ** Usable by BS, CT, DP, FL, HC, MC, OS, SD, CGT and CCT ** (Steve Wilkie / Fox) ![]()
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