Mad Monster Party? (1967)

When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there ... See full summary »

Director:

Jules Bass

Writers:

Len Korobkin (screenplay), Harvey Kurtzman (screenplay)

Stars:

Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Boris Karloff	...	Baron Boris von Frankenstein (voice)
Allen Swift	...	Felix Flankin / Yetch / Dracula / Invisible Man / Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde / Chef Machiavelli / Captain / First Mate / Mr. Kronkite / Mail Man / The Monster (voice)
Gale Garnett	...	Francesca (voice)
Phyllis Diller	...	The Monster's Mate (voice)
Ethel Ennis	...	Title Song Singer (voice)

Storyline

When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor. Everyone is there including Dracula, The Werewolf, The Creature, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. But Frankenstein's title is not all that is at stake. The famous doctor has also discovered the secret of total destruction that must not fall into the wrong hands!

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Plot Keywords:

horror for children | three word title | bat the animal | punctuation in title | raven | 

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Taglines:

Crawl, fly, slither and slink to the underground party of the year!

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 March 1967 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mad Monster Party

Company Credits

Production Co:

Embassy Pictures, Rankin/Bass Productions, Videocraft International

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

As of 2019, actress Gale Garnett (who voiced Francesca) is the only surviving cast member.

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Goofs

When the clock chimes, Dr. Frankenstein says it's 1:00, but the clock actually reads 6:55, plus it chimes six times.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Baron von Frankenstein: Ah... a lifetime of experimentation capped in one small vial. Now to the final step: The infusion of energy.

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Alternate Versions

In recent video releases, a few seconds of footage has been edited. In the scene at the pharmacy when the postman shows Felix a real fancy stamp on his letter, the new edited version edits the shot of Felix looking over the letter for the stamp and the postman pointing to it. So right after the postman calls the stamp "Fancy", it cuts right to a close-up of the Baron von Frankenstein stamp.

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Connections

References House of Frankenstein (1944)

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Soundtracks

Do the Mummy
Music and Lyrics by Maury Laws and Jules Bass Performed by Little Tibia and the Fibias (Dyke and the Blazers)

User Reviews

A glorious reminder of childhood

Every year, Mad Monster Party? would show up on TV around Halloween. Every year I watched it, until suddenly it disappeared from the small screen. (This was about the same time that infomercials came into vogue.) It was ten or more long years before I saw it again one night on TNT, and it had lost none of it's magnificence. And now it's shown up again, this time on AMC...and the AMC print is miles better than the washed out one that TNT showed. It's unbelievably bright, displaying a full palette of colours where once all was green and purple. You owe it to yourself---and your children!---to catch Mad Monster Party? at the next possible occasion. It's a Rankin-Bass production, so you know it's quality!