Trashfiend: Disposable Horror Fare of the 1960s & 1970s by Stine Scott

Author:Stine, Scott [Stine, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909394025
Publisher: Headpress
Published: 2012-10-23T07:00:00+00:00

Mexican comic book adaptation of Mad Monster Party? (June 1968) Clássicos del Cine

MOST PEOPLE who grew up in the last thirty odd years are undoubtedly familiar with the works of Rankin and Bass, even if the names of the films’ creators elude them. Many of us waited in anticipation every holiday season for the clockwork broadcasts of Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and Santa Claus is Coming to Town (1970), even if our youthful diets consisted primarily of creature features. (For us monster fans, our fondness for Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster in the former, and Winter Warlock in the latter, was probably greater than that reserved for the films’ heroes, but that doesn’t make these specials any less nostalgic.)

Shown much more infrequently than those yuletide staples were two other Rankin and Bass productions devoted to our favorite screen monsters of yesteryear. The first, Mad Monster Party? (1967) was a theatrical release filmed in the studio’s patented Animagic process. The second, Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters (1972), was a much shorter, straight to television effort filmed utilizing more traditional cell animation. Even though these two films share numerous similarities, the stories are unrelated, and the characters mostly variations on shared archetypes. The superior of the two, Mad Monster Party?, has achieved a richly deserved cult status, whereas the forgotten Mad, Mad, Mad Monsters still languishes in semi obscurity. (At the time of writing, the latter has had only two videocassette releases, and remained out of print for the better part of sixteen years.)

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