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Synopsis

Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller lend their vocal talents to this bizarre stop-motion animated parody of horror films. Dr. Frankenstein makes plans for his retirement and convenes a meeting of all monsters to announce his replacement. As word spreads that the doctor is going to choose his young nephew for the position, the visiting creatures plot a coup d’état that would leave Dr. Frankenstein retired … permanently.

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Jules Bass

Jules Bass (born September 16, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American director, producer, composer, and author.

Educated at New York University, he first worked at an advertising agency in New York until the early 1960s, when he founded the film production company Videocraft International (now called Rankin/Bass) with Arthur Rankin, Jr. He is best known for his collaborations with Arthur Rankin, Jr., co-directing and producing a wide array of stop motion animated features and cartoons. He composed the score for some of these films, collaborating with Maury Laws. Bass also served as lyricist for several songs. He has also solo directed some Rankin/Bass features, such as Mad Monster Party (1969) and The Daydreamer (1966).

Bass stopped directing and producing films in 1987, but most recently he has written a series of children’s books, based around the character of “Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon”. As of 2005, he splits his time between New York City, his home in… read more

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JESCIE

23Jan13

"I had seen other stop-motion animated features, and they were either not engaging or they're just too bizarre. There was one I liked when I was a kid called Mad Monster Party. People thought Nightmare was the first stop-motion animated monster musical, but that was." - Tim Burton, Burton On Burton

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Max the Movie Kid

22Oct12

Just imagine - had this been made today, it would have featured fart jokes, autotuning, pop culture references and piss fetishes by the dozen. Pfft, ha! Like that would ever exist!

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Cbarky99

17Oct12

You've got to respect an animated children's film where the plot revolves around nuclear annihilation as charmingly as it does here

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