Tossup
In a film in this genre that parodies spy movies, Vincent Price plays a mad scientist who creates robots with scanty golden clothing. MST3K riffed an awful Del Tenney horror movie in this genre in which a drum of radioactive waste turns a skeleton into a rubber monster with a weakness to sodium. AIP followed up its success in this genre with a film that transposed the formula to a ski resort. The fad for this genre took off with a series headlined by (*) Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, as well as Sandra Dee’s Gidget movies. Outlaw biker films largely eclipsed this exploitation genre, which tended to feature musical guests like Nancy Sinatra and Dick Dale. For 10 points, name this campy 1960s genre in which teens party in the sand. ■END■
ANSWER: beach party movies [accept surf movie or surfploitation; prompt on musical comedy] (The first clue refers to Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine. The MST3K film is The Horror of Party Beach. The ski movie is Ski Party, which ends at a beach anyway.)
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