Mod, Mod Monsters
Happy Halloween — as good a time as any to give props to the cult Rankin-Bass stop motion feature Mad Monster Party, doncha think? For all its spooky mystique, however, this movie is actually kind of dull (Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller give their all in the voice department). Perhaps the best part of the movie is the opening credits — did you know Mad magazine’s Jack Davis designed the creatures? The lovely title song sung by jazz singer Ethel Ennis sounds like a lost James Bond theme, only … Halloweeny. Listen to Ethel without competing sound effects here.
