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Summary: One of those 1960s cartoons you watched on UHF as a kid!
Review: I recommend watching this on a triple-bill along with 'Gay-Purree' and 'The Man Called Flinstone'. Then -- if necessary -- pop in 'Munster Go Home'.
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Summary: Floods your head with memories of your childhood!
Review: This is a great spoof on ALL the classic movie monsters. Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, The Invisible-man and even King Kong. Done in stop motion animation. In the tradition of the 60's classic holiday shows such as: "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" & "Santa Claus is coming to town".A must for any Halloween addict like myself. Or anyone between their late twenties or early forties, who might remember watching this some Saturday afternoon when they were in fourth grade! I would guess it to have somewhat of a cult following by now! So check it out! Thank-you for your time & enjoy!
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Summary: Rankin & Bass Stop-Motion Monster Fun ! ! !
Review: A must for any classic animation or Rankin & Bass fan I'm amazed, I look for this film for countless years & finally find it on amazon.com for sooo cheap! Then it shows up 3 days after I ordered it ..sweet! Now I see that it's no longer available ...looks like I got the last copy. Phew!! Close one. heheh Thanks guys..I love it. Brings back many fond memories of halloween tv shows I watched as a kid.
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Summary: Childhood Nostalgia
Review: After searching for this movie for years to relive some childhood memories and watch it, I finally found it thanks to Amazon.com and the internet. Rankin/Bass have a lost treasure here. It's for Children (that love the old movie monsters) or adults that want to remember how they felt when they first saw it. I felt good just watching it. Franchesca stole my heart once again! [From a technical standpoint the video was obviously transfered from older 16mm film, and it had a slight black bar at the top of the screen for some of the movie. Colors were noticably faded. Made in 1967, what do you expect?]
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Summary: Relive Your Childhodd!!!
Review: Now you can enjoy this Rankin/Bass classic in the comfort of your own home. Thanks to the private collection of Nick Shaffran, a clean 16mm print was acquired for the making of this Delxuco/Balck Bear Press release. The print was restored and color corrected, leading to a perfect transfer. Not many original prints of this quality exist, which is unfortunate because the original negative suffered water damage due to lack of interest, making preservation impossible. It's been rumored that this near extinction drove a loyal fan in stealing the only working print from the TNT Vaults after being broadcast on "TNT's Monster Vision" a few years back. Sound good, then get from Amizon.com!
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Summary: Halloween Classic Collection!
Review: If you enjoyed "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" then this one should be addition to your Halloween collection. ***notice: no subtitle or close-caption for the hearing impaired but great visual effects!
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Summary: One Groovy Ghoulie Get-Together!
Review: Finally back on video after years of cult status, this is the great, lost Rankin & Bass "Halloween Special". Actually, it's a full 90 min movie that unfortunately bombed in the 60's but found its audience on TV. Especially KTLA Los Angeles, where it was a regular feature on the Sunday Matinee and a favorite of a young Tim Burton. The story and acting may be as choppy as the animation in the movie, but it's easy to see the obvious influence this cult classic had on much more famous kiddie staples like "Scooby Doo" "The Groovie Ghoulies" and most obviously, Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas" (as well as his signature campy-noir style). It was c0-written by Harv Kurtzmann the editor of Mad Magazine; it's about a gathering of the world's most famous monsters as their leader (Boris Karloff himself) prepares to announce his greatest achievement and name his successor. I'll admit to you right now, as a kid I was hooked the minute I saw Francesca, the diabolical (and sexy!)assistant to Dr. Frankenstein that conspires w/Dracula to get rid of the nerdy successor, Felix Flanken (voiced by Cartoon legend Alan Swift!) If that ain't cool enough for ya, did I mention Phyllis Diller as the Bride of Frankenstein? And a surf rock band of skeletons, "Tibia and the Phibians"? Just remember it's a kids movie and the jokes are really bad
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Summary: OH GOD!!!! IT'S GrrrRRRREEAAAAT!!
Review: Mad Balls rock! Need I say more? This movie is SOOOOOO bad that It's GOOD!IT's SOOOOO good that you have to rent it today! OR buy it here! BECAUSE I SAY SO!
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Summary: Nostalgic weirdness
Review: From the makers of Rudolph and Frosty comes an animation classic from 1966. The songs are absolutely HORRIBLE, but the movie itself is interesting from a animation-fan point of view. Baron Frankenstien is retiring and wants to put his nephew Felix in charge of all the monsters. They try to kill him many ways because he is a normal human. He is helped by Frankenstiens buxom assistant Francesca to escape. Slow in parts but answers the question, "why was there never a Halloween special from Rankin/Bass?"
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Summary: The Original "Monsters Inc."
Review: If you grew up on "The Munsters", "The Addams Family", old MAD magazines, and "Monster Mash", don't miss "Mad Monster Party", a great and goofy animated monster spoof from the late '60s. I never heard of it until recently, but this is good stuff and quite sophisticated for its day. Rankin/Bass, known for their many holiday-season shows ("Rudolph", "Frosty The Snowman"), pulled out the stops here with their animatronic horror-movie characters. MAD regulars Jack Davis (artist) and Harvey Kurtzman (writer) were involved. So were Boris Karloff as Dr. Frankenstein, and Phyllis Diller as- well- Phyllis Diller in a Bride-of-Frankenstein cape! Trust me, it works. This is "Monsters Inc." three decades early, complete with cool Henry Mancini-ish monster-movie jazz and classic movie-monster caricatures. The unsung hero is Allen Swift, one of the best voice-over guys of the '60s and a fantastic Hollywood-legends impressionist. Allen does all the male voices except Karloff: Jimmy Stewart (for Felix, "Uncle Boris"' nephew), Bela Lugosi (for Dracula), Alec Guinness (for Dr. Jekyll), and an absolutely fantastic Peter Lorre (as "Yetch", Frankenstein's leering butler). All this and King Kong too! I think this might have gone right over the heads of kiddie-show audiences in the '60s, making it a cult item now. But I read that this was Tim Burton's favorite movie before he did "Batman" and other neo-monster hits.
Me? I'm not sure whether I want to follow up with the original
"Bride of Frankenstein", "Young Frankenstein", or go find "The Maltese Falcon" to see the real Peter Lorre! Anyway, if an animated movie from the '60s wakes up all kinds of memories for a big kid of 47, it's worth a look. "Mad Monster Party": it's the real "Monster Mash"!
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