Starring Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett, Phyllis Diller, Ethel Ennis
Directed by Jules Bass
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
To commemorate his latest discovery and announce his retirement, Baron Frankenstein holds a convention of the world's famous monsters on his island and also invites his bumbling nephew.
In this stop-motion animated film from Rankin/Bass, the creators of the famed holiday specials like Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty The Snowman, Karloff voices the Baron, and Diller capitalizes on her image to play the bride of Frankenstein's monster. Their character designs and those of the monsters, which include Dracula, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Wolf Man, and many others, are absolutely wonderful, but the film's less a spoof of the monsters than a comedy about assembling them all together. However, in my opinion, it's just not as fun as it should be, with throwaway songs, and only a few jokes that really amuse, despite MAD Magazine's Harvey Kurtzman collaborating on the screenplay.
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