Last night, Roy and I attempted to shed a little light on “Dracula” – the 1979 Frank Langella version. I had a few bones to pick, so be forewarned if you never drink… whine. Our conversation is in the vault. Grab a crucifix and a stake and meet us here:
Then I hope you’ll join us next Friday for a mad monster party, when SciFi Distilled’s Mike and Marybeth join us for… “Mad Monster Party” (1967)!
You undoubtedly recognize Rankin-Bass from their classic Christmas specials, including “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Well, what if they had been enlisted to make a kind of feature-length “League of Extraordinary Monsters?” All your favorites are here: Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolfman, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Quasimodo the Hunchback, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon, among others.
Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller lend their voices. Mad Magazine’s Harvey Kurtzman wrote the script. The film sports plenty of other in-jokes for classic monster lovers and Golden Age movie buffs.
Costumes will be donned! We’ll be all duded up in our undead apparel for “Mad Monster Party” on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner. Leave your tricks or treats in the comments section, as we livestream on Facebook, next Friday evening at 7:00 EDT!