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Having just completed his life’s work by creating a liquid that can destroy matter, Frankenstein feels its time to retire as the head of the Worldwide Organization of Monsters, so calls a convention together at his castle to name his successor.ĭracula, the Monster, the Monster’s Mate, the Mummy, the Invisible Man (in a smoking jacket), Dr. Okay, so Baron von Frankenstein (Karloff) lives on the barren and isolated Isle of Evil (“I Love Evil,” get it?) with his overdeveloped assistant and a lovestruck zombie named Yetch who lords over a small army of zombie monkeys in fezzes and bears a striking resemblance to Peter Lorre.
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Swift provides most of the voices here, and it’s through him, in fact, that a number of Mad Monster Party’s more subtle and unexpected movie jokes arise. Well, unusually buxom for a standard dumb kid’s movie anyway, until you remember the characters were designed by a bunch of MAD artists.Īpart from Ethel Ennis singing the title song in a clear parody of a James Bond opening, pretty much the only other actor involved was Allen Swift, who’d done voices for dozens of cartoons from Underdog to The Beatles, and had a knack for celebrity impressions. The role even allowed her to work some of her standard act into the goings-on, including calling her husband “Fang.” Gale Garnett plays Francesca, Frankenstein’s unusually buxom assistant.
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Plus he’d just done the Grinch the previous year and was anxious to do something else aimed at kids (even if Mad Monster Party was still at heart aimed at his core audience).Īs for the other voices, well, Elsa Lanchester was still alive at the time, but somehow it made much more sense to bring in Phyllis Diller to play the Bride of Frankenstein. Frankenstein-who the hell else is gonna play him, Soupy Sales? By that point in his career, Karloff was growing awfully weary of the low-rent horror cheapies he’d been making for far too long, and had no trouble at all satirizing what had been his bread and butter for over three decades. Given it was a Halloween themed project, and Rankin/Bass had a knack for hiring name voice actors, there was little question Boris Karloff had to play the lead. Minus Rankin and Bass themselves, of course. If you were a maladjusted 14-year-old at the time (or a maladjusted adult now) the behind-the-scenes team alone made Mad Monster Partythe equivalent of a rock’n’roll supergroup. Read more: Does Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Take Place in the Universal Monsters Timeline? They even hired Frank Frazetta, whose lush, hyperrealistic fantasy art had graced the covers of countless pulp novels, to design the poster. It only made sense considering the story at play that Forry, undisputed King of the Geeks, would be brought in as well to do some uncredited work on the screenplay, adding a number of sly movie in-jokes, like the werewolf dressed in gypsy garb. Ackerman’s Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine was just as essential reading at the time as MAD, and for much the same audience. As unlikely a pairing as it seems given their usual m.o., Rankin/Bass tapped MAD founder, editor and cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman to write the screenplay, and a few of the magazine’s staff artists (including the legendary Jack Davis) to design the characters and sets.įorrest J. Since the ‘50s MAD Magazine’s take-no-prisoners subversive cultural satire made it essential reading for any unbalanced kid with a head on his shoulders (even if some of the sharper political jabs went over those heads).
The “Mad” in the title was not exactly an accident. That may be in part because despite all the kid-friendly trappings and all those bright, uplifting musical numbers, Mad Monster Party’s unlikely creative team left the film aimed squarely at adolescent (and adult) film nerds. Somehow it was never able to lure audiences away from that damned Great Pumpkin.
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Predating Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s Nightmare Before Christmas by over a quarter-century, the sinister duo’s stop-motion musical comedy celebration of classic Universal horror, which was released as a theatrical feature before becoming a semi-regular October TV standby, never quite cornered the Halloween specials market as planned. Three years after producing 1964’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer but before going on to make other warm-hearted and sincere animated holiday standards like Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town, The Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman and the questionable Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass took a hard left turn into the dark, delightfully strange, and intensely geeky with Mad Monster Party.
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