Surf 2

Surf 2 (1984)

The movie that gives insanity a bad name.

Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz Cola which turns people into mutant zombies. Its up to Jocko, Chuck, Bob and their surfer buddies to save the day.

Date of release
1984-01-13
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (26)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Randall M. Badat

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Surf II is a 1984 American comedy film written and directed by Randall M. Badat and starring Eddie Deezen, Linda Kerridge, Eric Stoltz, Lyle Waggoner, Carol Wayne and Jeffrey Rogers. The plot follows two dim-witted surfers attempting to thwart the plans of a mad scientist attempting to rid the beaches of surfers by turning them into zombie punks through chemically altered soda pop.

Production

Director and screenwriter Randall Badat conceived the idea for Surf II while he was living in Venice, California during the early 1980s, drawing inspiration from stories about the colorful punk characters in his local surf scene and by incidents of contaminated water and chemical spills in the area.

After completing the screenplay, Badat's agent dismissed it as "the worst piece of shit [he'd] ever seen". Undeterred, Badat continued to shop the script around until it eventually caught the attention of independent film producers George Braunstein and Ron Hamady, who helped put together financing and eventually sold the project to production company Arista Films at the Cannes Film Festival.

Badat wrote the role of Menlo Schwartzer specifically for Eddie Deezen, having been a fan of his performance in Robert Zemeckis' 1978 film I Wanna Hold Your Hand. According to Deezen, Menlo Schwartzer was named "Stinky Schwartzer" in the script until Deezen pressured Badat to change it. Linda Kerridge was brought onto the project from having acted on one of Braunstein and Hamady's previous productions, the 1980 slasher Fade to Black.

Many of the film's comic actors - in particular Peter Isacksen, Biff Manard and Morgan Paull - were allowed to improvise much of their lines. Eddie Deezen contributed several odd props used in the film himself, including a baseball cap with an absurdly elongated brim and an oversized pair of novelty scissors.

Surf II was filmed in 29 days during the summer of 1983. Its beach scenes were shot at various locations throughout Venice, Malibu, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, while interior shots were filmed at a studio in Culver City and scenes at the Buzzz Cola factory were filmed at an abandoned waste treatment plant in El Segundo.

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