I was looking forward to seeing this movie after reading it was a kind of AIP transitional film from their juvenile delinquent movies to the Beach Party epics, but it's really dull and stupid. A bunch of teenagers ride their hot rods and hang around a local cafe (where they watch a band whose gimmick is firing a gun into the ceiling). A pompous middle aged journalist is doing a piece on the kids (a terrible idea), there is a rival gang causing trouble, a slumber party goes to too long, some parents worry about the morals of their kids... none of it is interesting. Half way through it switches into a haunted house mystery, which isn't that interesting either.
As for the glimpses of Beach Party stuff, well... there's a comic bit where a little old lady drives a jalopy while a comic parakeet makes noises, some cute nerds. The haunted house sequence is would be touched upon with The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, I guess. There are some songs but this badly lacks star value - there are no real names, not even John Ashley. In black and white too. This does mark a nadir of AIP movies but better ones did follow.
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