All Hail the Hypno-Criswell!
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March 20, 2008
March 17, 2008
Mad Monster Party?
[Link: Little Tibia and the Fibias perform The Mummy]
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.
March 15, 2008
Saucers in the Sky
[Link: Saucers in the Sky][via Fudgeland]
March 2, 2008
The Skinny on Tubby
Those of you who were permanently scarred after viewing this image in my post on Bad Album Covers from June of last year, and sought expensive therapy to try and have his flabby image erased from your cerebral folds, should avoid reading this fascinating WMFU biography of the Comedy King of Man-Teats at all costs.
[Link: Who Was Tubby Boots?]