Mad Monster Party?

MOVIE #1,267 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 12.06.23 This Rankin/Bass stop-motion theatrical feature is lesser known than their holiday TV specials, but it’s extremely fun. Their last collaboration with animation supervisor Tadahito Mochinaga, it’s jam-packed with amazing puppet work, visual gags, and puns galore (“he was a crushing bore… he just couldn’t stop killing wild boars,” “I’ll be your Don Juan… I don juan to look at you,” etc.). It also features characters with voice work who are clearly attempting to mimic famous actors (Jimmy Steward and Peter Loore, among others). 95 minutes is a bit overlong for this kind of production and I don’t think the songs are very good/memorable, but it’s nevertheless an enjoyable watch with all your famous monster characters who are actually billed in the opening credits instead of the performers. You simply can’t argue with this…

(I'm forever a sucker for the randomly inserted Italian chef stereotype.)

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Mad Monster Party? is a 1967 stop-motion animated musical comedy film produced by Rankin/Bass Productions for Embassy Pictures. The film stars the voices of Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett, and Phyllis Diller. It tells the story of a mad scientist who achieves the secret of total destruction as he summons all the monsters to his island home to show it off while planning to retire as the head of the "Worldwide Organization of Monsters". Although less well known than Rankin/Bass's holiday specials, it has become a cult film. It was released on March 8, 1967.