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This screencap from an unnamed film has had me, and a bunch of other folks in the Name That Film Flickr Pool, chuckling and cracking "corny" puns all week.
As my sainted mother always says, "They just don't make 'em like that anymore."
[Uploaded by noh_thing, seen here photographing himself in the mirror of the men's room at Forbidden Island]
Last week, I finally got around to watching the restored DVD version of Rankin/Bass' stop-action Halloween classic, Mad Monster Party?, and was it ever great!
I never got a chance to see it when I was a youngster, because I was living in Denmark back in 1969, and believe it or not, the Danish government rated this innocent kiddie film, Forbudt For Børn (Forbidden for Children), so I got screwed out of a quintessential childhood cinematic experience by those prudish Danes. Thanks for nothing, you nation of butter-cookie eating wusses!
Featuring great characters designed by artist Jack Davis (of Mad Magazine fame), classic celebrity voice talent (Phyllis Diller and Boris Karloff), and a really nifty monster-jazz/lounge/garage-rock soundtrack, it's a mystery to me why it tanked on its initial release to theaters. Hopefully, with this DVD release, it will finally take its rightful place alongside other towering classics of the scary kiddie-film oeuvre.
If only there really was a Rat Pfink a Boo-Boo comic book. Of course, if it did exist, it would probably be hermetically sealed in a plastic bag with a $5,000 price tag stuck on it.
After having a look at the character shots from the upcoming Watchmen movie, I am now experiencing a microscopic feeling of hope that this film may actually Fail to SuckTM.
That is all.
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Screencap #1: From the Earth to the Moon
Screencap #2: Heavy Metal
Screencap #3: The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters
Screencap #4: Strange Brew
Screencap #5: My Blue Heaven
Here are a few of the screencaps I've uploaded to the Name That Film Flickr Pool this week. Leave a comment if you can name them, but try not to cheat by peeking at the answers in the pool, m'kay?
DISCLAIMER: NTF pool members, along with employees of Bali Hai Industries and their families are ineligible to play.
UPDATE: hmm, this game doesn't seem to be generating a whole lot of interest, so I'm just going to go ahead and name them. Guess I'll keep my screencaps on Flickr from now on.