1h 22min | Comedy, Horror, Musical | 6 April 1966 | Color, ws
Director: Don Weis
Stars: Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Aron Kincaid, Quinn O'Hara, Jesse White, Harvey Lembeck, Nancy Sinatra, Basil Rathbone, Patsy Kelly, Boris Karloff.
Jack Baker ... choreographer
Christopher Riordan ... assistant choreographer (uncredited)
Watched online, ok print.
5 songs in the Soundtracks, far fewer than normal. NS sang once.
BK is not onscreen much; he plays the corpse. But he has to stay in his crypt; he has a former acquaintance (dead 32 years longer than he) who's doing his bidding. She is the titular ghost in the titular bikini. Said bikini is invisible because they used chromakey to make the bikini area disappear.
HL is again Eric von Zipper, along with his gang.
We have a replacements for Buster Keaton and blonde; the actor's face and name are unfamiliar.
BR is the primary baddie, as the lawyer for the estate who wants its proceeds. So he has a bevy of helpers haunting/attacking the heirs who've come to the mansion for the reading of the will. But he doesn't know where the treasure is hidden, so they all have to run around the grounds to find it and to survive.
We also have a double-decker busload of teens who are friends of PK's nephew, and they dance in bikinis, then in short nighties during the long end credits (AIP is still the only ones doing this).
IMDb rating 3.9 with 800+ votes. I already know I don't like Horror, and Comedy Horror isn't any more appealing. (You probably have to like or at least appreciate the original before you can like the spoof?) It might be insulting to say this didn't annoy me enough earn 4.
distr. AIP, dir. Weis; 5-
