Review – Mad Monster Party

This production brings me mindful of something that must dwell in the mind of movie critics everywhere: no matter how terrible a movie happens to be, someone out there absolutely loves it. From my perspective, this was absolutely dreadful. It’s like an extended Rankin Bass animated holiday special only about a thousand times more annoying. For every plus (Boris Karloff, cool miniature set work) there’s a painfully offsetting minus (particularly the excruciating musical numbers). Overall this story of a mad scientist holding a party to announce his successor is simply too stupid for words. However, while doing a little background research to figure out where this picture fit chronologically in relation to “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” (a couple of years later, just for the record) I discovered a whole web site devoted to it. De gustibus non est disputandum. Wish I’d skipped it