Mad Monster Party?

***Mad Monster Party?*** is a 1967 American stop-motion animated musical comedy film directed by Jules Bass.

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## Cast

* Boris Karloff   as   Baron Boris von Frankenstein
* Alan Swift   as   Felix Flanken
* Swift also provided the voice of primary characters: Count Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster "Fang", the Werewolf, the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and "It", in addition to supporting characters: Yetch, a Skeleton, Chef Mafia Machiavelli, Mr. Kronkite, the Freighter Captain, the First Mate, and the Mailman.

## Staff

* Directed by Jules Bass
* Produced by Arthur Rankin Jr.
* Executive Producer: Joseph E. Levine
* Associate Producer: Larry Roemer
* Screenplay by Len Korobkin, Harvey Kurtzman
* Story by Arthur Rankin Jr.
* Music and Lyrics by Maury Laws, Jules Bass
* Characters Designed by Jack Davis
* Continuity Design: Don Duga
* "Animagic" Technician: Tad Mochinaga
* Assistant Director: Kizo Nagashima
* Choreography by "Killer Joe" Piro
* Music Composed and Scored by Maury Laws
* Sound Engineers: Eric Tomlinson, Peter Page, Stephen Frohock

## Appearances

* Bride of Frankenstein
* Frankenstein's monster

Production
The film was created using Rankin/Bass' "Animagic" stop motion animation process, supervised by Tadahito Mochinaga at MOM Productions in Tokyo, Japan. The process involved photographing figurines a frame at a time, then re-positioning them, exposing another frame, and so forth. Known as stop-motion animation, it was the same approach used in RKO's *King Kong*, Art Clokey's *Gumby* and *Davey and Goliath*, and many other films, commercials and TV specials.
Classic monster films were enjoying a resurgence in popularity in the late 1960s, along with more comedy-centered examples, *The Addams Family* and *The Munsters*. This campy film is a spoof of horror themes, complete with musical numbers and inside jokes.
*Mad Magazine* creator Harvey Kurtzman penned the script (with writer Len Korobkin) and *Mad* artist Jack Davis designed many of the characters. Davis was a natural for the job, being famous both for his humor work and his monster stories in the pages of EC Comics. It has long been rumored that Forrest J. Ackerman had a hand in the script, but while the dialogue is rife with *Famous Monsters of Filmland*-like puns, Ackerman's involvement has never been confirmed and his name never appeared in the on-screen credits or in original promotion for the film at the time of its release. In fact, Rankin/Bass historian Rick Goldschmidt, in liner notes accompanying the Anchor Bay DVD release, denied Ackerman was ever involved, at the same time as the DVD packaging promoted Ackerman's name. Goldschmidt repeated his claims on this in a 2006 blog entry, based on his interviews with Korobkin, who claimed to have written the original screenplay, which then was revised by Kurtzman, but never worked with Ackerman.
In addition to the famous monsters seen in the film, *Mad Monster Party?* also features several celebrity likenesses. Karloff and Diller's characters are both designed to look like the actors portraying them, while Baron Frankenstein's lackey, Yetch, is a physical and vocal caricature of Peter Lorre. Swift also performs impersonations when voicing his characters, such as James Stewart when voicing Felix, Sydney Greenstreet as the Invisible Man and Charles Laughton as the Freighter Captain.
*Mad Monster Party?* was one of several family-friendly projects Karloff lent his voice to in his final years (including the 1966 television adaptation of *How the Grinch Stole Christmas!*). It was his final involvement in a production connected to the Frankenstein mythos that had propelled him to stardom some three decades earlier.

References
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1. ↑ Mad Monster Party (1968). Retrieved on November 7, 2020.

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