THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI (1966) – Episode 187 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

“I’m steaming. I’m steaming. I’m… I’m so exaggerated! I’m mad at that princess. The only girl I ever loved and now she and them street slobs are going to steal a million clams from them folks and they didn’t even invite me. ” Eric von Zipper has a way with words, doesn’t he? Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Jeff Mohr, and guest Dirk Rogers – as they check out one of the last of AIP’s beach party movies, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era
Episode 187 – The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)

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A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go “up there” and have his youth restored.

• Directed by: Don Weis
• Writing Credits: Louis M. Heyward and Elwood Ullman
• Selected Cast:
  • Tommy Kirk as Chuck Phillips
  • Deborah Walley as Lili Morton
  • Aron Kincaid as Bobby
  • Quinn O’Hara as Sinistra
  • Jesse White as J. Sinister Hulk
  • Harvey Lembeck as Eric Von Zipper
  • The Rat Pack
    • Andy Romano as J.D.
    • Alberta Nelson as Puss
    • Myrna Ross as Boots
    • Jerry Brutsche as Jerome
    • Bob Harvey as Bobby
    • Sam Page as Chauncey
    • John Macchia as Joey
    • Allen Fife as Beard
  • Basil Rathbone as Reginald Ripper
  • Patsy Kelly as Myrtle Forbush
  • Boris Karloff as The Corpse
  • Susan Hart as The Ghost
  • Nancy Sinatra as Vicki
  • Claudia Martin as Lulu
  • Francis X. Bushman as Malcolm
  • Benny Rubin as Chicken Feather
  • Bobbie Shaw Chance as Princess Yolanda (as Bobbi Shaw)
  • George Barrows as Monstro the Gorilla
  • Piccola Pupa as Piccola
  • Luree Holmes as Luree
  • Ed Garner as Ed
  • Frank Alesia as Frank
  • Mary Hughes as Mary
  • Salli Sachse as Salli
  • Patti Chandler as Patti
  • Sue Hamilton as Sue
  • The Bobby Fuller Four as Themselves (Bobby Fuller, Randy Fuller, DeWayne Quirico, Jim Reese)
  • Elena Andreas as Statue (uncredited)
  • Herb Andress as Statue (uncredited)
  • Philip Bent as Beach Boy (uncredited)
  • Gary Daily as Boy in Blue and White Trunks (uncredited)
  • Bobbi McCall as Girl in Blue Bikini (uncredited)
  • Christopher Riordan as Beach Boy (uncredited)

The Grue-Crew and guest host Dirk Rogers take a trip to the beach with one of the last of the Beach Party movies. Wait, what? There’s no beach? No ocean? No surfing? And AIP disliked the product so much that they added Boris Karloff and the whole ghost-in-the-invisible-bikini schtick after the fact?

Well, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) makes for a nice title. Let’s face it. It’s a bad movie. It’s even a dumb movie. But it can be a fun movie, especially if you love the lame, teen music numbers inserted throughout the film as much as the Grue-Crew do. And even if you despise the music (yeah, the Grue-Crew didn’t like it either – except Doc, of course), you can have fun with this flick.

With Deborah Walley and Tommy Kirk (subbing for Annette and Frankie), Basil Rathbone, Patsy Kelly, Harvey Lembeck (Eric von Zipper!), Jesse White, and Nancy Sinatra, there’s always something to watch. Think “the Three Stooges in an old dark house.”

At the time of this writing, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) is available to stream from MGM+, Amazon Prime, and several PPV options.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Next in their very flexible schedule – this one chosen by Jeff – is The Shadow of the Cat (1961), a Hammer Film directed by John Gillin, featuring Barbara Shelley and André Morell, recently released as part of Scream Factory’s Universal Horror Collection Vol. 6! 

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