I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Charming and brutal

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

An all American family of the early 1970s runs into problems when young thugs appear.Not a lot of terror here, maybe "Disaster On The Beach" would have been a better title. Young people might struggle with this flick as it is not the sort of movie we see today. So if you are expecting strong violence, swearing, rape and drug taking: you will not get it here!I am a middle aged male who totally enjoyed enjoyed Terror On The Beach. However, I admit there was one scene where I was expecting a rape or even a sexual advance from the thugs (to an attractive girl in swimming cloths), but got nothing?? What was that all about?? Were the thugs gay or something?Also, at times the musical score sounds like it belongs in a 1960s sci-fi TV series, rather than a movie like this.But the flick held me from beginning to end and it was perfectly casted.

At the beginning of this TV movie we see a minivan tooling along a wooded road. The driver is Dennis Weaver, decked out in mustache, pipe, and black-rimmed glasses. Later, a bad guy will call Weaver "Mister Whitebread" and Weaver will respond with a bemused expression. With Weaver in the bus are his blue-eyed wife (Estelle Parsons), his politely rebellious teen-aged son (Kristoffer Tabori) and his virginal daughter "DeeDee" (Susan Dey).The first lines come from Weaver, who happily orders his family to hold their breaths, then -- "Alright, everybody, now BREATHE! Smell that fresh air?" In the passenger's seat is young Tabori, to whom Weaver makes some remark about college. Tabori says that he's old enough "to stand on my own two feet", and he'd like to make his own decisions and not just be ordered around anymore. I can't quite describe his delivery of these machine-processed lines. Let me just say that, at first, I thought he was joking. He rolls his eyes and speaks metrically, as if he knows that the lines are so formulaic that they deserve nothing but parody. But no -- the fact is that the kid is serious. He just can't act.The first ten minutes all boded pretty ill and I began to wonder, "Why am I watching this, again?" Then Susan Dey appeared in tight, Chinese red, short shorts and I remembered.I don't want to get into the plot in any detail. A bunch of hooligan kids show up in hot rods and an old fire engine and harass the Whitebread family, humiliating them, insulting them, damn near wrecking their vehicle, finally driving them off the road, although there isn't a moment's doubt that they'll be back.The Whitebreads set up a tent next to their bus on the beach and the hooligans reappear, apologetic but obviously insincere. Dennis Weaver's attitude towards them is, "Well, they're just some kids havin' fun and let's not get hysterical." Estelle Warren frankly doesn't trust them. As they ogle Susan Dey in her tiny swimsuit, she acts half haughty and half flirtatious, offering them beers, evidently not knowing that the name of this movie is "Terror On The Beach." It's on right now and I guess I'll go back and finish watching it. I don't want to miss the inevitable scene in which the goons corner DeeDee in the woods and threaten to make her feel good.In judging whether or not you should bother watching this, you might ask yourself, "Self, have you seen 'Hot Rods to Hell' or 'Duel'?" You should ask this because the plot is essentially ripped off from the former and Dennis Weaver's character is a variation on his constantly noodged driver in the latter. This isn't nearly as good as the other two -- both of which I enjoy beyond the bounds of logic -- but it's similar enough because of its stolen elements that you might get a kick out of it. In any case, if you decide to watch it, it will help if your brain has been subject to chemical alteration.

I remember watching this when it first aired - even then, I thought it was lame. That doesn't mean it's not fun, however. Poor Dennis Weaver, cast as a milquetoast yet again, plays the middle-class head of a rather dull family who take a little vacation on the beach (hence the title). No sooner are they settled than the trouble begins, with Pa, Ma (Estelle Parsons) and the kids (Susan Dey and Kristofer Tabori) victimized by a group of would-be Hippies who make the kids in "Hot Rods To Hell" and "Outrage" seem like Hell's Angels. They spend too much time playing idiotic "mind games" with the family, who are apparently too terrified (or too stupid) to simply pack up, jump in the car and head home. Oh yes, Papa is a pacifist unlike the son, who thinks he's a coward, but events will bring Dad around. There are no characterizations beyond this. Parsons, who looks frumpy and tired, just whines throughout. Dey looks fetching, but adds little (dramatic) substance and Tabori is simply there to egg Dad on. As for the hippies, they have no motivation at all, let alone credibility. This is very rarely seen these days, but, as bad movies go, it's well worth looking out for, even though it may not sound like it here.And You really haven't lived until you hear Dad Weaver lead his family in a mind-bending rendition of ''I went to the animal fair''(?). Remember,however, a picture is worth a thousand words and "Terror on the Beach" is quite a picture.

Being born in the 1960's I grew up watching the TV "Movies of the Week" in the early 70's and loved the creepy movies that were routinely shown including "Crowhaven Farm", "Bad Ronald", "Satan's School for Girls", "Kolchak the Night Stalker", etc, but this one is just plain dumb.This is obviously the writer's trying to capitalize on the horrific Manson murders from a few years earlier. The movie stars Dennis Weaver of "McCloud" and "Duel" fame as a father who takes his family camping on a beach. The family encounters some hippies who for some reason decide to terrorize the family. The reason for this is never explained, and Weaver's pacifistic stance is hard to swallow. For God's sake, call the police, beat the hell of them or something, just don't sit there and whine about it. The acting is pretty lame, the story unbelievable, etc. Susan Dey looks cute in a bikini but that's about it. Ignore this if it ever airs on TV.