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There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Dennis Weaver has decided to take the family on camping/beach vacation on the Pacific coast. Some of the relationships are getting a little frayed and he thinks this might be a chance to mend. Especially with son Kristoffer Tabori who has announced that he is leaving college.So it's Weaver, Tabori, and wife Estelle Parsons and daughter Susan Dey off in the camper. They run afoul of Scott Hyland and his gang of drugged out dune buggy buddies who proceed to terrorize the Glynn family on their vacation.The theme is a familiar one, the civilized man who can't quite comprehend pure evil when confronted. Fortunately for Weaver he catches on in time to save himself and his family.Besides the chase and action sequences the best ones are the scenes between father and son. Weaver and Tabori put some real bite into them.Familiar theme, low budget, but nicely acted by the ensemble cast.

A family has set out to spend some family time on the beach, just like old times together. The dad is a gentle man, not smart on mechanics but his son knows a little bit about it because this family will need it. As they are driving along on the back-roads there is suddenly two vehicles around them: a guy with a life-sized plastic doll in a convertible and two in a sand-buggy. The thugs end up running the family off the road and the trouble begins.You don't have to wait long for the hippy thugs to show up, only about 2 minutes into the film. This film does not waste time trying to develop the characters of the family members in the beginning, they develop them throughout the course of the film. The thugs are just thugs, not much to develop with them.Really not a good film but it's an okay watch if you are super bored.3/10

If you ever get the chance to see TERROR ON THE BEACH don't miss it because it's a great example of how not to write a screenplay . Robert McKee will no doubt read this and violently disagree but I'm giving you free advice here guys and I won't be charging any fees Inciting incident - This is the plot turn that sets up the plot proper . This TVM doesn't actually have one . The villains are bad because they're bad and the victims are victims because they're victims . There should be a reason for this but here there no reason because there is no inciting incident Foreshadowing - Easy mistake to make when the writer knows what's happening therefore so does his characters before anything has happened . Here a family in their camper van see some vehicles speeding behind them and they begin to panic . Why ? Because they know the baddies are driving behind them but because it's the opening scene and they've never met the characters or even have any knowledge of them they still show fear . Either there's too much foreshadowing or this family in the camper van can tell the future Oh and try not to write characters as being totally black and white . I found the script here very reactionary . These crazy hippy/biker kids represent youth while the Glynn family represent middle class American values . No doubt the youths dodged the draft and dodge paying taxes with equal fervour . They even have a mannequin in their truck . Why ? It's never revealed but you can read between the lines and conclude that it's some kind of sex toy , drill some holes in certain parts , fill the holes with raw offal and put a strap on at the front of it and you have an object that can be used and abused for sexual gratification of draft dodging tax evading delinquent scum . Nothing is too depraved for these wild kids . If they pick on honest hard working middle class tax payers for no reason then gang rape of a plastic mannequin is very low grade depravity for these moral degenerates One thing that perhaps hasn't anything to do with screen writing is casting . I wouldn't say Dennis Weaver is wooden but if he stood next to a rack of pool cues they'd be the Royal Shakespeare Company in comparison . When the bad boy leaders of the gang say they're going to teach the Glynns a lesson it might be ones in acting Anyway if you get the chance watch this TVM if there's nothing else on , it's watchable though you'll be confused as to why you're enjoying it

This film had a lot of potential - the first half reveals some truly disturbing terrorizing of a vulnerable family. Then, it just unraveled. The hard-ass psychopaths suddenly turn out to be wimps. Their leader, a man with well-defined muscles and great abs, can't seem to take on a man 25 years older than him, as a rickety Dennis Weaver kicks his butt. This happens after his son, who, with a twisted ankle, manages to pull a hippie/thug off a moving dune buggy. The thug immediately begs for mercy. He's actually afraid of a smallish teenager who wears a pullover sweater with matching shirt collar to the beach. On the bright side, Susan Dey looks great in a bikini - nice caboose, but with obvious falsies up front - a support bra bikini???