MAD MONSTER PARTY?!
There oughta be a law that states if the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials (Rudolph, Year Without a Santa Claus, etc.) are perennials, that MAD MONSTER PARTY? should be shown every Halloween season. It’s the perfect Halloween movie: great stop-motion animation from the Rankin-Bass team, colorful and imaginative character design by the great Jack Davis (MAD, EC Comics, millions of poster and album cover art designs), uncredited script doctoring from FAMOUS MONSTERS’ Forrest J. Ackerman, great songs, a skeleton garage band, and delightful voice-acting performances by Boris Karloff, Phyllis Diller, Allen Swift and Gale Garnett. It’s a gas!