Party Monster

Starring:Seth Green, Macaulay Culkin, Diana Scarwid, ChloÃ« Sevigny, Marilyn Manson, Dylan McDermott, Mia Kirshner, Wilmer Valderrama, Natasha Lyonne, Daniel Franzese, Elliot Kriss, Dillon Woolley, Wilson Cruz, Janis Dardaris, Manny Perez (II), Justin Hagan, Brendan O'Malley (II), Phillip Knasiak, John Summerour, John Stamos
Director: Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

Customer Reviews:

The Amazing Grace .......2006-12-10

This is one of those corny, but charming, horror movies from the 1980s. It falls into the same category as Fright Night. But there is one element in this movie that sets it apart and makes it truly worth watching: Grace Jones. She gives a totally erotic performance as a female modern-day vampire. Gedde Watanaber also gave a very funny performance as a rich Asian-American college student named Duncan. Chris Makepeace and Robert Rusler were the stars, however, Gedde Watanabe and Grace Jones basically stole every scene that they were on. It's worth your time to watch this movie.

Pure 80's! You have to adore it!.......2006-11-15

I loved this movie when I saw it as a youngster and hadn't seen it since so I jumped at the chance to own it on dvd. And thanks to those nice people at Anchor Bay we can enjoy it in a beautiful crisp 1:1.85 transfer. Such a pity it didn't get the 5.1 or DTS remaster but even so, it's still a treat. Only films from this era could get away with being so camp. All the characters are likeable especially Duncan played by Gedde Wantanebe. You may be interested to know that director Richard Wenk is the co-writer of the recent movie 16 Blocks.
The extras are awesome including casting sessions and the directors first film. If you love 80's horror, and let's be honest those were the best years for horror, you MUST buy this.

the worst vampire movie ever!!!!!.......2006-06-13

i read all these great reviews for vamp so i thought "hay,give it a try. man am i unhappy,how anyone could rate this stinker a 5 is beyond me,and who said grace jones can act or that she's sexy?????? this is just the worst!!!!!!!!!!!! STAY AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cut above the rest...........2005-12-10

VAMP has much more going for it than most of the 1980's wave of slashy trashy horror films.

This film is imaginative and quirky. First of all it stars Billy Drago as an albino thug. Secondly, it stars Grace Jones who was probably born to play the mute but imposing vampiric dancer.

The film is surprsingly stylish with stylish green and pinkish hues adding to a strange landscape. This film reminds me of Martin Scorcese's AFTER HOURS. Like AFTER HOURS this has a surreal world just around the corner from normality where oddballs lie in wait and strange events lead into other strange events.

The film is not without its faults. The acting can be suspect, though not bad enough to spoil the film, and it can be quite cheesey at times. But, then again, I think this adds to its charm. Buy it!

"JONES" FOR BLOOD.......2005-10-26

CAMPY 80'S VAMP FLICK.. LOVED IT THEN, LOVE IT NOW! TWO COLLEGE GUYS PROMISE TO SUPPLY SOME HOOKERS FOR A FRATERNITY PARTY. THEY DON'T HAVE A CAR SO THEY BEFRIEND A RICH GEEK THAT DOES & DRIVE INTO THE CITY. NIGHT FALLS & THEY GO TO STRIP CLUB TO RECRUIT SOME GIRLS. ONE GUY GOES IN THE BACKROOM FOR A "MEETING" WITH A POSSIBLE GIRL, BUT DOESN'T QUITE RETURN THE SAME MAN HE WAS.. I DON'T WANNA BLOW ANYMORE FOR YOU, SO I'LL STOP THERE..

GRACE JONES AS A VAMPIRE, YOU GOTTA SEE.. HER SEDUCTIVE NAKED DANCE SCENE WITH THE KEITH HERING PAINT JOB ON HER FLESH IS WELL WORTH A WATCH ALONE.. BUT STILL, NOTHING IN THE FILM TOPS THIS SCENE : THE DYING, ALMOST DUST, SKELETAL CORPS THAT UPON IT LAST BREATH, EXTENDS A MIDDLE FINGER TO IT'S KILLER BEFORE IT DIES! THIS FILM IS DEFIANTLY A COMEDY HORROR FLICK YET IT DOES HAVE SOME CREEP FACTOR TO IT.. NOT MUCH, BUT IT STILL EXISTS..

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Bitter Sweet
Rent it first.
Grossly unpleasant
Interesting, disturbed and honest
Pleasantly Surprised

Party Monster
Starring: Seth Green , Macaulay Culkin , Diana Scarwid , Chloë Sevigny , and Marilyn Manson
Director: Fenton Bailey , and Randy Barbato
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B00014K5TQ
Release Date: 2004-02-10

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Party Monster is a curiosity: a fictional version of events already covered in documentary form (see Party Monster: The Shockumentary) by this film's co-directors, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, best known for The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Party Monster, theatrically released in 2003, also signals the return of Macaulay Culkin to films after a long absence. Culkin plays 1980s club kid-turned-killer Michael Alig, a small-town boy who arrives in New York in search of reinvention on the Ecstasy-fueled party scene. Alig ascends from rube to ringmaster, organizing Fabulous happenings and anointing, in Warhol-like fashion, various transvestites and studly naifs the era's new superstars. Seth Green plays Alig's arch but more reticent co-conspirator and roommate, James St. James. Green is more grounded in character than Culkin, though neither actor is convincing as a deluded drag queen. Despite interesting material, the directors never reveal what makes Alig a compelling figure in Manhattan's social history. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Bitter Sweet.......2007-05-15

Okay, I'm going to sound contradicting here, but hear me out... This has to be, by far, the WORST acting I have ever seen in my whole thirty-six years of being, HOWEVER, it contains comedic genius from Marilyn Manson, charm, wit and strange intrigue of Macaulay Culkin, as well as a fantastic soundtrack that is worth putting-up with the bad acting, all in itself. I happen to be a big fan of the "Club Kids", including Michael Alig, James St. James and DJ Keoki, so it helps to know this is based on their whirlwind lives (although I honestly wasn't aware of that until I watched the additional features) (doh!)... Most definitely a cult classic!

Rent it first........2007-04-16

It's worth seeing this movie if you like Seth Green. He's just adorable in it. It's an interesting movie that might be stuck in your head for a while after watching. Mostly you might be saying "Why did I watch that?". If you like watching different movies then go for this one. I wouldn't recommend buying it though.

Grossly unpleasant.......2007-03-02

To see Macaulay Culkin in a tight little shirt and short tight shorts is just revolting. This was just not for me. I've like Seth Green in every other role I've seen him in, but this was too much. Seemed like a well done movie overall, but I couldn't watch more than about 1/3 of it.

Interesting, disturbed and honest.......2006-12-19

These were the type of emotions that I had felt watching this movie. I have never was privilaged to view so much drug use in my life, but I was not a club kid. I was facinated to see the life of a club kid protrayed in such an honest way if this is the life it is. I felt very sorry for the people that were involved with each other and thier tattered, addicted lives. I am giving this movie 4 stars for the honesty and the acting of the actors in a way that it was believable.

Pleasantly Surprised.......2006-11-14

If you expect to watch a plot driven movie,this is not for you. This film uses a murder to draw you into the time of the Club Kids, a time when it only mattered if you were seen.

I sat down to watch this out of boredom. I am not a fan of Macaulay Culkin and did not think I would last the entire film. Instead, after writing this review, I will be watching Party Monster again.

This film is almost as much about the time as it is about the people. Michael Alig and James St. James happened to be the people who took us to the late 80s, early 90's pre-Giuliani New York night club scene in this film. My exposure to the Club Kids prior to viewing this film was limited. I had managed to see them on Joan Rivers and thought what they were doing was a cool idea, just living to be seen, in a sense. The young men and women were existing for the next party, the next person to give them attention and the next high (both natural and chemically induced).

This movie transports you to a time and place that most of us will never experience, and it manages to do it quite well. The beginning and end did not fit in with the rest of the film and the attempt to bookend the film did not quite work out well, although the end did tie in reminder that Alig only cares for attention in case we had forgotten what his driving force is. I still found these scenes to be tacked on. They did help me travel from now back to the time period of the film and back again but it still seemed a bit disjointed.

Make no mistake, this film is low budget. This was especially obvious in a couple of scenes that take place outside the club on the street. I could almost see the tape for the roped off area, the lack of natural foot traffic was obvious. The two main actors (Seth Green and Culkin) both had several scenes where it was clear they had not had time to work on practicing their lines, and that rehearsals were needed (the beginning of the first scene in the fast food joint comes to mind).

I was surprised at the performances by Chloë Sevigny (yes, gay men can have friends that are girls), Dylan McDermott (who played an excellent role in Wonderland -- another low budget gem, around the same time) and Marilyn Manson as Christina.

This is a good movie to view if you want to leave the world you are in for a couple hours, but a better budget would have really helped this film.

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Monster Party stands the test of time
BIG BOOBED PUPPET/ SKELETON ROCK BAND/ I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO....
Some Nostalgia Is Best Left In The Past
Great!
very pleased

Mad Monster Party
Starring: Boris Karloff , Allen Swift , Gale Garnett , Phyllis Diller , and Ethel Ennis
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Release Date: 2005-08-23

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Love the classic monsters Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, the Creature, Dracula, the Werewolf, and the Invisible Man? They're all here in this animated, 90-minute video--and so are the vocal talents of Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller. After discovering the secret of destruction, Baron von Frankenstein is retiring as head of the World Wide Organization of Monsters. He's handpicked his mortal nephew Felix to be his successor, and his fellow monsters are less than pleased. Even though Felix politely declines to carry on this family tradition, the monsters band together and double-cross one another in comic attempts to expel Felix from the group.

The "Rankin/Bass Animagic process" of using stop-motion photography with three-dimensional figures makes this video a visual feast for animation buffs, but it is outdated compared to modern animation techniques. Humorous details, like the count looking into a mirror to comb his hair and seeing only his comb reflected, permeate the video and will have viewers chuckling out loud and on alert for potential missed laughs. This video is best for children from about 5 to 12 years old or adults who want to reminisce over a movie viewed in their childhood. --Tami Horiuchi

Customer Reviews:

Monster Party stands the test of time.......2007-05-13

I remember this movie as a favourite from my childhood. Whenever it appeared on tv - I was always ready to watch it. Even though that was a good few years ago, Mad Monster Party stands the test of time. The story is simple -Monsters gather to party, bad verses badder and yet love wins in the end. The humour is quirky, the songs catchy. The characters are the original group of monsters that we all know and were scared of. When you think that this was made in the 60's the animation is brilliant. You can see at times where Tim Burton may have got some of his ideas. The colour seems to have been inhanced - all for the better. I knew this movie was a favourite and having not see it for many years pleased to say it remains one.

BIG BOOBED PUPPET/ SKELETON ROCK BAND/ I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO...........2007-05-11

Corny as hell, but I still like it. I bought this movie used from Amazon a while back, for my kid. I had no idea what I was getting into. This thing has a bizarre plotline, that leads our protagonist (a geeky-Jimmy Stewart-esque kinda guy) onto an island inhabited by his uncle Boris (rightly voiced by Boris Karloff) and an army of monsters that he created.
Uncle Boris wants to hand the island and all of it's secrets over to his nephew, but the monsters are not to thrilled. Mainly Francesca (quite possibly the sexiest puppet I've ever seen). She believes that she should be the rightful heir of the island, so she seduces Dracula into helping her destroy the nephew.
Dracula screws everything up, so Francesca decides to settle things herself (biggest [...] I've ever seen on a puppet by the way).. only her plan is foiled when nephew smacks her in the face, and somehow causes her to instantly fall madly in love with him (they make out like every five minutes from here on..) Once the monsters discover whats going on with the two, they decide to get even with both.
I won't spoil the ending, but this is a cool little movie to watch with the kids on a rainy day. The best is when a rock band of skeletons pop out of nowhere and play a song called Dance The Mummy.. but the campy, sixties take on a slew of classic monsters, portrayed as puppets is all gravy. Rankin/Bass the guys that brought you Rudolph and all of those other X-mas shows from the sixties masterminded this gem.

Some Nostalgia Is Best Left In The Past.......2007-04-02

In theory, MAD MONSTER PARTY has everything required to blast you into your childhood past: the voices of Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller; characters that are riffs on Universal horror classics; and animated by Rankin-Bass, which created such memorable holiday television specials as Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. But at ninety minutes, MAD MONSTER PARTY is much, much too long for the very slight story it has to tell.

The story, as such: Dr. Frankenstein, who earlier discovered the secret of life, has now discovered the secret of destruction. He invites all the monsters under his control to his remote island, there to announce his discovery--and his retirement and plans to pass his secrets onto his klutzy and inept nephew. The monsters are not pleased and decide to off said nephew and use the new discovery to suit themselves.

The premise is okay, but the actual result is remarkably tedious. The script is dull, the occasional song atrocious. The pace is very, very slow. The character designs are uninspired. As for the famed Rankin-Bass animation... let us be generous here and say that in this instance it has not dated very well. This is essentially stop-motion animation, the same process so memorably used by Ray Harryhouser in such memorable films as THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD and Tim Burton in THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS--but without the same budgets.

If you are considering a purchase for "family film purposes," you can do a lot better than this. If you yourself recall the movie fondly from your childhood, do yourself a favor and don't return to it, for you will almost certainly be disappointed; some nostalgia really is better left in the past. The only people likely to find the film of interest are hardcore collectors of stop-motion animation--and even then the interest is more likely to be technical than anything else. Such fans excepted, not recommended.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Great!.......2007-03-10

This movie is a KICK IN THE PANTS! Just watching all the old time actors portrayed in claymation is a laugh a minute! If you love all the old claymation movies, you'll love this one too!

very pleased.......2007-03-08

the movie was sent out quickly. The movie was of great quality. I have only good things to say about the service from this company.

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It's that bad
LOL
I'm the most generous...
Wow!
somehow...

House of the Dead
Starring: Jonathan Cherry , Tyron Leitso , Clint Howard , Ona Grauer , and Ellie Cornell
Director: Uwe Boll
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ASIN: B0000YEE6C
Release Date: 2004-01-27

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The usual slasher-movie teens charter a boat to attend a rave in Washington's San Juan islands, find zombies there, and splatter their guts all over the place. House of the Dead shows early promise when the boat captain is the dude from Das Boot (Jürgen Prochnow) and the mate is the inimitably weird Clint Howard. Alas, things devolve from there. The movie includes frequent flashes from its video game inspiration, not that we need much reminding of the obvious source. Amongst the rotten dialogue, bad acting, and gratuitous topless scenes, there's one looooong shootout sequence in the middle of the picture that should be the main attraction for fans of this kind of thing. Otherwise, it's at the level of every other slasher movie, video game or no video game, in which stupid people do stupid things to keep themselves in harm's way. --Robert Horton

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It's that bad.......2007-05-22

Can't anyone make a good zombie movie outside of the 'Dead' movies? Even some of them are pretty lame. Aside from over endulgence in gore let's talk acting here. Now I know that in these types of movie acting shouldn't matter, but here it is plain bad. Stilted actors and lame dialog.

I usually like a Dead movie, been a fan ever since as a boy it took me 7 tries before I finally made it all the way through the origianl 'Night of the LIving Dead' (which in my opinion is the best of any). But this one was bad.

No sense of logic, the heroes extracate themselves from a 'hopeless' situation near the end oh so easily, and don't get me started on the ending fight sequence. I did like the way she popped the leader's head like a pimple however. Thought that was fun.

Just another in a long line of poorly done movies that should be reserved for Sat afternoon on the SciFi Channel.

LOL.......2007-04-17

I think they should implement a new rating system on amazon for movies. In this system it would implement two scores. one score: viewing while sober, and the other viewing while drunk.

now the one star rating i gave this movie as you see above, is obviously the not drunk rating. what you get here is one of the most nonsensical shoddy sloppy ridiculous movies of all time. uwe boll sucks at directing, i dont care how mad he gets or how many people he challenges to a boxing match (notice he weeds out the challengers so he only faces unexperienced fighters). i cant stand these quick cut fast moving hey we are in a music video like sequences that holywood is putting in movies nowadays. and this movie is choke full of those. not to mention horrid acting, horrid dialogue, and a story line that just plain says suck!!!!

now, if you watch this movie drunk (i do not condone the abuse of alcohol in any way) (unfortunatly i think watching this movie sober might actually be more dangerous to your health that alcohol is) then i shall give this movie 5 stars. seriously. gather a bunch of your friends, grab a 6 pack of beer or what ever you drink, and watch away. seriously, i believe this movie would be the greatest episode of mystery science theater 3000 EVER... absolutly wild and zany fun is to be had of this...

ps: this trick only works with this movie. all other uwe boll movies have been made to suck in all ways, drunk or sober....alone in the dark....cries...

I'm the most generous..........2006-12-06

I'll start by saying that I do agree with most of the reviewers here, the movie was really bad. One of the stars I gave is for the good looking cast, unfortunately they can't act at all. Only at the beginning of the movie there are a few moments that makes you jump reason why I gave another star (2 in total), but after that, the movie gets ridiculous, no action, no good video effects (they ran out of $$ I bet) bad acting gets even more stupid, the fighting is horrendous, and the scenes of the game included in the movie don't help at all, instead they make it worst. At the end I was laughing so much, not because it's a good funny movie, but because I could not believe I was watching such an idiotic movie that I spent $8.00 to own. That been said, the only reason to watch it, is to laugh while you discover all the fails and lacks in directing, acting, editing, etc

Wow!.......2006-11-27

Zombie film - lots of slow-moving dead people. Annoying heroes. Only semi-annoying (because very good-looking and under-dressed) heroines.
Zombies, kill zombies! Wow!

somehow..........2006-11-25

you must understand, there is no good reason to like this film other than mindless entertainment value. There are so many plot holes and just all around weak points that it's not even worth mentioning.

Then, in the action scenes they insist on putting a "matrix spin" with the camera around anyone who fires a shot... after every shot! I'd say that if it wasn't for that it would have been helluva lot more entertaining, that just made it a lot worse and in my opinion, the images and action were the only reason anyone would ever watch this.

if you are looking for something to pass the time with some friends, somehting to make a fwe drinking games out of, then go for it. it's fun, nothing more.

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Weird and wild
Well made documentary of a world of mistakes
A Waste of Money
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Party Monster - The Shockumentary
Starring: Michael Alig , James St. James , Gitsie , Keoki , and Eric Bernat
Director: Fenton Bailey , and Randy Barbato
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Party Monster
Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture
Party Monster
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ASIN: B0000C23GA
Release Date: 2003-10-28

Description

The original documentary about NY club impresario Michael Alig that inspired the upcoming motion picture of the same name starring Macauley Culkin and Seth Green.

Customer Reviews:

Weird and wild.......2007-06-09

If you are interested in 1990s New York club life, the "club kids", or sordid tales of drugs and murder, this is the DVD to check out.

Well made documentary of a world of mistakes.......2007-05-21

There is a Monty Python skit where a young felon is being arrested by the police. Someone remarks, "Society is to blame." "Well, we'll be arresting him, too." I kept thinking of that skit while watching this movie. Why, I wondered, was it possible for any of the people in this documentary to become famous? Ultimately Michael Alig had to take responsibility for murdering fellow Club Kid and drug dealer Angel Melendez, but for some unfathomable reason Alig was a celebrity murderer. My bafflement wasn't merely because neither he nor any of the other people in this film deserved in any way to be famous. They had not, after all, achieved anything, done anything of importance, made the world a better or more wondrous place, or shown themselves to be in any real way to be interesting people. Their only apparent talent was for engaging in more and more extreme behavior. But my concern is not just that none of them deserved any kind of fame; my concern is why our society enabled them to become famous in the first place.

Perhaps there are ideas in Debord's THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE that would explain this. Perhaps he and his colleagues could explain why people could become famous and notorious simply for being over the top. It is a baffling form of fame. There are parallels with Dandyism in the 19th century, but I doubt of these people have heard of Huysmans let alone À REBOURS. The documentary was fascinating if only for presenting an endless string of inconceivably unimpressive bores addicted to surpassing limits. The idea that kept passing through my brain was how dull they all must be, how empty they all must have felt, to be possessed with the need to surpass all boundaries just to make themselves feel special. To do these things to make some sort of personal statement seemed tantamount to shouting, "I have no other statement to make than this!" Their activities seemed acts of nihilism.

In short, this is an interesting movie about some dramatically dull and uninteresting people, who were willing to go to almost any extreme to make themselves envied by people who didn't know any better. The filmmakers tell the story well and you get a real sense of what transpired. To their credit they do not make the Party Kids seem interesting or enviable. I can't imagine anyone watching this movie and saying, "Dang, I wish I'd been a part of that!" And nothing makes Michael Alig an especially likable person.

A Waste of Money.......2006-07-02

Since this story has been told a hundred times before, I expected something more from the documentary. Perhaps a more perceptive analysis, or something that would explain the mind of the sociopath that is Michael Alig. It is worthy only for the ability to see a group of shallow individuals devoid of empathy. These are a group of "jumped up nothings" as the British would say, and it appears that the ones who aren't dead haven't learned much. The most frightening parts of the DVD are the current interviews of a delusional Alig who still envisions himself as somewhat of a star. He laughs, while hystrionically recounting horrific events in his life, and gloats over how many drugs he could consume. Yet brushes aside the murder of Angel with the pitiful confession that he has "bad dreams." Listening to his Baby Jane-esque mother who also wallowed in the club kid scene, might help explain why the bad seed, knew no boundaries. I would have liked to have learned what exactly happened besides the drugs to make Alig devoid of humaness. But at the end of the documentary all you wonder is why Alig wasn't given the death penalty. Even clean and sober, there seems to be nothing salvageable about this man. With his degree of narcissism, I have no doubt that he could kill again. Watch the story on Biography and save your money.

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Vey Cool.......2005-11-13

This is a great documentary. After you've seen it the first time, be sure to watch it again with James St. James's super-catty comentary. For example, when Angel's brother Johnny starts to weep for Angel, James comments,"Johnny, what is that HAIR?!". Mee-OOOOOOOW!!!!

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A Battle Of Epic Proportions
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During a solo space mission to Mars, NASA astronaut Col. Frank Saunders (Robert Reilly) - who happens to be an experimental android-- is shot down by an alien warship. Frank survives the attack, crash-landing on Puerto Rico. The space aliens—led by Princess Marcuzan (Marilyn Hanold) and her putty-eared lieutenant, Dr. Nadir (Lou Cutell) -- decide he must die, so they give chase, but manage to only disfigure him before commencing with their ultimate endeavor: steal bikini-clad young women to re-populate their nuclear-ravaged planet! Meanwhile, scientists Adam Steele (James Karen) and Karen Grant (Nancy Marshall) leisurely tour the scenery on a Vespa motor scooter in search of their creation, Frank, who's busy terrorizing the coastal populace. The marauding aliens crash a swingin' pool party and steal the girls, who are brought aboard their ship to be separated by their lusty attributes and then further frightened by a hairy, skull-faced space monster… In the overcrowded pantheon of bad but deliriously fun movies, few surpass this science fiction drive-in staple.

Customer Reviews:

A Battle Of Epic Proportions.......2007-03-20

Martians invade sunny and scenic Puerto Rico to-what else?-find earth women to mate with. They shoot down a space shuttle that they mistake for a nuclear missile(using MAXIMUM ENERGY!). Little do they know that the rocket was piloted by an android designed for space travel. The android, frazzled by the crash, decides to go on a homicidal rampage until he's found and calmed down by his creator(James Karen no less!). Since you've already got a malfunctioning, bloodthirsty robot on your hands, why not turn him loose on the martians? Well, that's what happens. Our robot hero battles stock footage and an army of Billy Corgans and finally frees the slave chicks, but not before his final confrontation with the Space Monster. The Space Monster looks alot like Oderus from Gwar. So, what does Frankenstein have to do with this mess? Absolutely nada. The name Frankenstein must be box office gold or something, coz it's used here for no reason at all. The "Frankenstein" here is the hero android. His name is Frank though, so I guess that sorta qualifies. He looks a bit like the Terminator when half of his face is gone, exposing the metal skeleton underneath. You certainly don't need a review to let you know if you want to see a film like this, the title and cover art speak for themselves. Fans of this kind of stuff will know what they're getting into. But in regards to movies of this type, this one is actually rather fun. Odds are we won't see this one remade, so that's a plus.

Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster.......2006-10-29

Here's a fun one. Comical aliens from beyond are disrupting our space program while abducting bikini girls for breeding purposes. Simultaneously, a NASA cyborg has malfunctioned and is running murderously amok ! Known in some circles as ' Mars Invades Puerto Rico.'

"We've proven again that science and the military can accomplish the impossible!".......2006-09-27

Pop quiz hotshot...your home planet, devastated by atomic war, is now inhabited by a handful of men and almost no women...what do you do? Answer...you hop in your spacecraft and scour the universe for hot babes in the hopes of abducting them and returning home to repopulate your world of course, and that's pretty much the main gist behind the film Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965), directed by Robert Gaffney, who would later go on to direct photography for part of Stanley Kubrik's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Starring in the film is James Karen (Poltergeist, The Return of the Living Dead), former playmate (June '59) Marilyn Hanold (The Brain That Wouldn't Die), and Lou Cutell (Little Big Man). Also appearing is Nancy Marshall (Asylum of Satan), David Kerman (Murder, Inc.), Robert Reilly (To Save a Child), and Bruce Glover (Diamonds Are Forever, Chinatown) in a dual role as a Martian patrolman and also the space monster named Mull.

As the movie begins we see some Martians, led by the comely Princess Marcuzan (Hanold), along with her bald-headed, smirking, often effeminate brainiac sidekick/scientist named Doctor Nadir (Cutell), cruising about in outer space, headed towards Earth. Once in orbit they perceive various rocket launches by NASA to be missile attacks and proceed to use a force field to destroy them. NASA, unaware of the Martians, decide on a new approach by sending a rocket into space piloted by a human looking robot (one that can feel pain, for some reason), created by Dr. Adam Steele (Karen) and his assistant Karen Grant (Marshall), to eliminate the possibility of human error, I guess. As launch time approaches we get a load of stock footage, and, again, the Martians force the ship down, but the robot manages to eject his capsule, landing somewhere in Puerto Rico. Princess Marcuzan, now realizing the rockets were not missile attacks but manned space missions, orders her crew to land and destroy the pilot for fear he might relate to Earth authorities of their presence, which results in the robot getting blasted and subsequently damaged, turning it into a sort of Frankenstein monster who wanders the area killing at random. From here the Martians decide to enact phase two of their plan, which involves collecting nubile, young female specimens for the purpose of returning them to Mars, because Mars needs women...er, wait, that's a different film. Anyway, a bunch of stuff happens including tons more stock footage (most of it of the military type), some go-go dancing, the procurement of more bikini clad breeding stock, Nadir continuing to act fruity, Adam cruising the streets of San Juan on a Vespa, a couple people get disintegrated, we meet Mull, the mutant Martian monster brought along for the ride, Karen gets abducted, all culminating in a real clash of the titans (sort of) as the discombobulated Frankenstein robot battles the Martian mutant.

While this film was the pits (but in a fun way), I did learn quite a bit including the following...

1. Stock footage and lengthy driving montages are a great way to pad out a film's running time without having to spend a lot of extra dough
2. Dressing a few guys up in phony looking spacesuits hardly instills the belief they're actually Martians.
3. Martian men are bald and sport Vulcan ears.
4. The makers of this film should have gotten their money back from whoever supplied them with those baldheaded wigs and pointy ears for the Martian characters as they look ridiculously phony.
5. Martian princesses, while certainly attractive, are harsh mistresses, especially when it comes to punishment doled out to those who fail in performing their duties.
6. A machete works just as good splitting skulls as it does coconuts.
7. A mutant Martian with excessive body hair and obviously rubber claws doesn't seem all that threatening.
8. When trying to communicate with a Spanish speaking bartender your need to use his telephone by using the word `telephone', he'll most likely give you a beer, but if you use the phrase `el telephono', he'll understand you perfectly.
9. Dr. Nadir seems to enjoy the more heinous aspects of his job just a bit too much.
10. When the military issues a `Code 24' alert, prepare yourself for massive amounts of stock footage.
11. Earthmen are unusually passive when dudes in spacesuits show up and steal their women (in all fairness the spacesuit guys were sporting ray guns, but still, forty unarmed Earthmen against three armed spacemen seems like favorable odds).
12. Conventional weaponry (artillery, rockets, etc.) is useless against a geodesic dome-like spaceship with a metal skirt and spindly landing gear, all seemingly made of aluminum.
13. When obtaining the rights to songs for a film, maximize the expenditure by playing the songs more than once.
14. Unused montage footage can be utilized to provide viewers with something to watch during the closing credits (waste not want not).

As I alluded to earlier, the film's a real dud, but goofy enough to be entertaining. One really funny aspect that sticks in my mind is near the beginning when Adam, Karen, a General, and a pilot are traveling in a Lincoln Continental, all four in the backseat. Now the backseat of a Continental is large, it's obviously not large enough to accommodate the foursome, resulting in the appearance of the General actually sitting on Karen's lap. Another entertaining aspect of the film was the character of Dr. Nadir, played by Lou Cutell. He's made up in a way that makes him look like a bald, evil gremlin, enhanced by his slyly suggestive, effeminate smirks. The performances are generally rotten, as was the dialog, which is steeped with harebrained exposition. The special effects are bargain basement (I thought the creature Mull actually looked halfway decent). I dug inclusion of the song `That's The Way It's Got To Be' by The Poets, even if it had no relevance what so ever to the film. There's probably about a good twenty minutes of stock footage (the film only runs 77 minutes) but what's used seems to have been chosen with some thought, so that was appreciated. All in all the movie is a real dog, but entertaining in an Ed Wood/Plan Nine from Outer Space sort of way, certainly worth a few laughs.

The picture quality on this Dark Sky Films DVD release, presented in anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1), looks better than it should (there are some obvious signs of age, but, overall it's quite clean and clear) and the Dolby Digital 2.0 mono audio comes through exceptionally well. There are some good extras, including a 14-page insert booklet, an original theatrical trailer for the film, a still gallery, and English subtitles. All in all a great release of a rotten, albeit fun, film. Two stars for the film plus an extra star for the DVD release.

Cookieman108

By the way, if you're interested in getting a copy of the infinitely groovy tune `That's The Way It's Got To Be', by The Poets, featured in this film, you can find it on disc two of a four CD box set released by Rhino Records entitled Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond. The set itself is pricey, but it's worth it especially if you dig on rare British rock from the mid to late 1960s.

Space Monster Attack!.......2006-07-07

Personally I loved this film.The story was the most wacked out concept ever.The Space monster mull(I think) was pretty awesome and the ray guns were cool.The music was innapropriate at some parts such as in a capturing scene where they play up beat 60s music.Highly Recomended for any cheesy sci-fi fan.

Pitch Perfect B-Movie Madness.......2006-06-20

I had a great time with this one. This film does everything wrong--exactly right. If anything, this served as a primer for later parodies of the genre, since so many of the great cliches are here: Bad editing, bad acting, bad special effects, bad plot. Oddly enough, some of sequences border on avante garde in the way they layer image and sound. An interesting, enjoyable (but not good) film.

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Beware: Not an official release, please avoid!
Don't be fooled - Hervé is NOT the star!

Seizure!
Starring: Hervé Villechaize , and Jonathan Frid
Director: Oliver Stone
Manufacturer: Telavista
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Cult Camp Classics 1 - Sci-Fi Thrillers (Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman 1958 / Giant Behemoth / Queen of Outer Space)
Straight Time
Thieves Like Us
Cult Camp Classics 3 - Terrorized Travelers (Hot Rods to Hell / Skyjacked / Zero Hour!)
Author! Author!

ASIN: B000PKG8XS
Release Date: 2007-06-05

Description

Oliver Stone's first feature film! A prominent fantasy writer invites several guests to his isolated home for the weekend. But the gathering is crashed by three devilish figures from the author's dreams. When he awakes, it is only to discover that this is one nightmare he cannot escape. SEIZURE is a Faustian tale of a man haunted at first in his dreams, then in reality by the creations of his own mind. Do you believe that it is possible to be literally frightened to death?

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Beware: Not an official release, please avoid!.......2007-06-13

Beware, this DVD release by Telavista is a bootleg taken from a full-screen, pan & scan VHS transfer. I was excited to think someone was finally putting out Oliver Stone's classic first feature on DVD, but alas... it was not so. Apparently, even he can't get the rights to his own film... some Canadian tax write-off has buried it.

Do not buy this horrible rip-off version.

Don't be fooled - Hervé is NOT the star!.......2007-05-23

I will not dispute that Hervé did a great job, his villainous Spider is unbelievably cold, but this movie belongs to its star, Jonathan Frid. He finally gets to step out of the (dark) shadow of Barnabas Collins in this film, and shows his acting chops in a "mainstream" role. Christina Pickles plays his wife, a harried woman who turns out to be rather strong in the end, even as Frid's character weakens. I'll warn you, though, the editing in particular is rough unless some of it was recut for this DVD release. I'm thrilled that it's finally going to be available.

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I found Centipede to be a fun little monster flick
It's ok.
Lots of legs. No plot. Dude.
Ive seen worse.
Centipede! The Musical!

Centipede
Starring: Larry Casey
Manufacturer: Maverick
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Caved In: Prehistoric Terror
Arachnia
Komodo vs. Cobra
Creepies

ASIN: B0009GX1UQ
Release Date: 2005-07-05

Customer Reviews:

I found Centipede to be a fun little monster flick.......2006-10-29

I'm one of those people who like Grade B horror and sci-fi movies (even Grade Z sometimes) with non-CGI monsters. I think Centipede is actually a pretty good little movie that mixes the old style monster genre with the young-good-looking-twentysomethings in peril plot. I also liked the fact that Centipede was actually shot and is set in a non-typical locale -- the country of India. To me, it was a lot more fun to watch than the recent spate of cartoony CGI monster movies or indie sadist killer horror movies. If you enjoy the old style monster movies from the 50s and 60s like me, you might enjoy watching Centipede. I did.

It's ok........2006-02-16

A group of friends go check out a cave in India before one of them gets married. Unfortunatly, they get trapped inside with a giant killer centipede. The bad writing, acting, and special effects might put you off, but there's still a little bit of fun to be had with this one. Rent it if you really want to see it.

Lots of legs. No plot. Dude........2006-01-09

I know what you're thinking. "Wow! They made a movie version of the hit arcade game!" Well...OK maybe you're NOT thinking that, but believe me that's a far cooler idea than what we got here.

A bunch of young adults go spelunking in India - don't ask how a group of young people could afford the trip, and don't ask why India looks like southern California - and proceed to drink beer, listen to loud music, and pee on the walls before a giant centipede comes and attacks them. I have to side with the centipede here: imagine you're sitting at home watching TV when some guy walks in, unzips his pants, and proceeds to pee on the wall. How would you feel? If you had mandibles of doom you'd kill him too right?

Lot's of people die. To be honest I really didn't care, because I could've cared less about these characters. They might as well have been called "Generic Teenager #1," "Generic Teenager #2," and so on. Plus they're to blame for emoting the terrible lines from the script. By the way, you know that story about how Hugh Jackman started adding "Bub" to his "X-Men" dialogue? Something similar must've been done here because the characters throw the word "dude" around so much it deserves it's own drinking game.

"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York, dude."

Don't watch. If you decide to any way, enjoy Las Vegas, India as well a cheap centipede mannequin that gets dragged around the set by gaffers. Dude.

Ive seen worse........2005-12-30

Im a sucker for monster movies...and this one is not too bad.
The only reason it gets a 3 star its because of the caving scencery.
Caves are great for monster movies...too bad you have a bunch of
silly humans bringing down the movie...but its not that bad, most
acting is pretty fair to good, and the monster is not too bad either. A bigger budget would have improve the situation..but its
certainly worth a viewing....

Centipede! The Musical!.......2005-12-24

When the title came up on the screen, it actually had an exclamation point after it... CENTIPEDE! Like a musical. Come to think of it, this movie might have been better if it had a couple of snappy musical numbers in it. It makes you wonder if they were going for that self-referencing Sci-Fi PG-13 funny/scary movie thing that Blue Devil, Monster Island and Bite Me! have captured so effectively. A bunch of spelunkers go to India to explore a creepy cave before one of them goes off to get married. Like a bachelor party in a cave or something like that. They are attacked by giant latex centipede puppets. The end.

Not much to recommend here, boils and ghouls, except for one truly bizarre moment. So, this Indian guide leads our heroes down into the cave, and they all decide to have a party while their in the bowels of the earth. We find out through some really unsubtle exposition that the soon-to-be-married guy used to have a thing with one of the other girls on the trip. There's supposed sexual tension between them as they try to ignore each other. I guess this girl was supposed to be sultry and sexy and mysterious. I thought she was kinda Plain Jane, but maybe the director was dating her or something. We'll call her CC (Casting Couch) for short, because I can't remember her character's name.

While they're all partying down in the caves, someone turns on a radio and some of them start dancing. Really awkward, watching all these actors trying to pretend like they are having fun. It's a cringe-fest. But then they all start looking at CC and chanting, "Do the dance. Do the dance." She coyly shakes her head. I was watching it thinking that this must be why they cast her, maybe she can do some freakish thing like wrap her legs around her head and dance like that. So this big build-up around the DANCE, and when she finally gets up and does it... it's like this White Girl Cabbage Patch thing that, quite literally, gave me a stabbing pain in my stomach. It was a NAPOLEON DYNAMITE moment. I watched her do the DANCE like five times in a row. It was crazy. I wanted to vomit. That's why I say maybe they should have kept the exclamation point at the end of the title and made this movie into some weird kind of horror/musical.

Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (Spook Show Spectacular)

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Dimestore Monsters Run Amok! BRILLIANT!!!
Monsters Crash the Editing
A lot of fun for virtually all-ages....
"Take The Mad Doctor And His Talking Toilet Home!"
Great For Buffs Of Movie Exhibition History!

Monsters Crash the Pajama Party (Spook Show Spectacular)
Starring: Joseph Armand (II) , Don Brandon , Judith Carol , Peter De Noto , and Mary Dwyer
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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ASIN: B00005NG04
Release Date: 2001-09-11

Description

Grab the kids, lower the lights, and turn every night into Halloween with the Monsters Crash the Pajama Party Spook Show Spectacular! It's a Spookaroo Whoop-de-doo with this Terrorific 3-hour-plus Spooktacular containing everything you need for your very own Spook Party! First, join some terrified teens who spend a night in a haunted house and get spooked by a mad doctor and his ghoulish gang when the Monsters Crash the Pajama Party, a hilarious 1965 theatrical featurette complete with werewolf, gorilla in a fur coat, and goofy gimmick! Then, feel your eyes pop out of their sockets when you check into The Asylum of the Insane, a startling short subject with monsters in 3-D Spookarama (3-D glasses included)! But that's not all! This scary, screwy, chill-arious fright show includes bonus shorts, Spook Show previews, audio commentaries, How to Put on Your Own Spook Show, music by The Dead Elvi, and much more--plus the bonus feature-length chiller-diller Tormented!

Free 3-D glasses; 2 Audio Commentaries by ghostmasters Philip "Dr. Evil" Morris and Harry "Dr. Jekyl" Wise; Short subjects Don't Be Afraid, Spook House Ride, Drive-In Werewolf and Chased by Monsters; Horror Home Productions from the 1920s, '40s and '60s, including London After Midnight, The Mummy, Mr. Hyde and more, with musical accompaniment by the Chiller Theatre house band, The Dead Elvi; Spooky Musical Soundies; Spooks-a-Poppin' Trailer Show, containing over 45 minutes of rare Spook Show previews including The Great London Ghost Show, Dr. Evil and His Terrors of the Unknown, Dr. Jekyl and his 'Real Gone' Weird Show, and many more; Gallery of 300 Spook Show Stills and Exploitation Art; Radio-Spot Rarities; Illustrated essay How to Put on Your Own Spook Show; Secrets of the Spook Show booklet by ghostmaster Jim The Mad Doctor Ridenour; Bonus feature: Musician Richard Carlson is haunted by a ghostly girlfriend in director Bert I. Gordon's chiller-diller Tormented (1960, 72 min.); plus a special introduction in Hypnoscope will give you the courage to face the terror!

Customer Reviews:

Dimestore Monsters Run Amok! BRILLIANT!!!.......2005-02-25

This DVD is a mishmash. A low-rent theatrical short here, a trip through a carnival haunted house there, some still shots of old spookshow posters in between. In fact, "Monsters Crash the Pajama Party" is nearly impossible to describe. It's not a feature film, though there is a feature ("Tormented") included somewhere on the disc. Nor is it primarily about the title segment, a short monster/comedy flick starring a bunch of college kids and a mad scientist. Instead, it's almost as if the entire DVD is made up of extras. But what a great collection of extras it is! For one low price, you get monsters, happenin' 60s co-eds, horrible narration, REALLY bad acting, a bit of 3-D, a guy in a bargain-basement gorilla outfit and a whole lot more! Watching this disc feels like channel surfing in a world in which the Cramps run all the TV stations. It's like watching snippets of movies made by people who...well...wish they could make better movies. The result? It's absolutely, over-the-top brilliant; a patchwork of lowbrow cinema that will leave you wondering, "Where the heck did this stuff ever play??"

My only complaint about this disc (and I'm docking it a whole star for this) is that it's REALLY hard to navigate! The viewer is pretty much left to just stumble onto various scenes by trial and error. It's an amazing collection of clips and snippets overall, but this thing should have come with a map.

Monsters Crash the Editing.......2004-12-05

This DVD is so hard to navigate, it's nearly unwatchable, and extremely frustrating. The viewer is promted through a series of arcade-type mazes and must click on pictures within each scene to view chapters. Chapters aren't named, so even getting to "Monsters Crash the PJ Party" feature is major undertaking. In two chapters, "Monsters Crash..." shows while an old radio show plays over the feature. In two others, the viewer is shown still clips of instructions that are meant to pull off a gag stunt on a city-wide basis - - "How to Bury Someone Alive," and something else. Neither stunt would fly in todays modern scene. Instructions could probably be found on the net in 2 minutes, while getting to them via the DVD would take more like 50 minutes.

I used to think Director Ed Wood's "Plan 9 Form Outer Space" was the worst movie ever made, but "Monsters Crash the Pajama Party" has given me pause for thought.

A lot of fun for virtually all-ages...........2004-06-25

...especially those who love horror films or Halloween. Sure the material is cheesy;it's supposed to be. This DVD is the most fun I've had where searching for contents is concerned as virtually all items are in the form of horror easter eggs. The only quibble I have is that some of the actual hidden easter eggs should have been unseen material, as opposed to quick clips of material already on the disc. The kind of DVD I would probably view and have fun with a few times a year. Worth it alone for all the classic horror artwork featured in most of the material...

"Take The Mad Doctor And His Talking Toilet Home!".......2004-05-25

I chose the title of the review based on one thing only: it was the most entertaining line from the entire DVD. I am a big Something Weird fan, and almost always love their work, but this time I have to make an exception. This DVD is really pretty boring, except for the drama of 'Tormented' and the lowbrow comedy of 'Monsters Crash The Pajama Party'. Since 'Monsters Crash The Pajama Party' was selected as the title for the DVD, let's begin there. The story is basically this: five sorority pledges stay in a haunted house and fall victim to the resident mad doctor (we know this because "Mad Doctor" is emblazoned on his lab coat.) There is much wackiness foisted on the audience over the next 30 minutes, including men in gorilla suits, women in chains, a werewolf in polka dotted boxer shorts, a laser cannon that seemingly has no point, and police detectives summoned to investigate it all because of a noise complaint. The film ends in absolute mid-action when a monkey bangs a gong, and it's suddenly over; no climax, no denouement, nothing. The best part of the film are some fairly entertaining credits done with guys in gorilla suits at the opening. It is campy fun that is timed just right at 30 minutes; any more would be pushing the limits. Besides 'Tormented' this is easily the best thing on the DVD.

Seemingly out of place to me on the disc is 'Tormented' a feature length psychological drama of love torn asunder in a lighthouse by Bert I. Gordon, who for once uses characters of normal size. 'Tormented' is well made and fairly creepy, and therefore not really in keeping with the rest of the DVD, which is thematically tied to spook shows of the 1920s to 1960s. I like 'Tormented,' and that (plus some funny camp value points from 'Monsters Crash The Pajama Party') is what brought this DVD up to three stars for me.

Now that I have discussed the good, let's turn to the bad. In any discussion of the bad features of this DVD, the logical place to start is the index. This DVD has the worst designed, most irritating and utterly pointless index system I have ever seen. Some people seem to like the 'hidden Easter egg' charm of this index, but most people will hate it. Let me explain. The index has no words, merely symbols like a bat or a headstone to select the features. This means that there is absolutely no way to find what you are looking for other than by random chance. To further aggravate the viewer, there are multiple sub-menus of index functions, meaning that the search is even more aggravating than it even sounds. I will never watch this DVD again for that reason alone.

There is a short feature, wholly inappropriately titled 'The Asylum of the Insane'. It is in 3-D, and (very cheap) glasses are provided, but it doesn't really matter, as the 3-D does not work on a television, but gave me a big time headache (or perhaps it's the content that did it...) This movie is not terribly horrifying inasmuch as it consists of ten minutes of some kids throwing a football around, an old guy doing yo-yo tricks, and a some teenagers in Halloween masks poking baseball bats and hatchets at the camera. To exacerbate the 'horror', there is the bonus of no sound, so it's really a silent movie of a Saturday afternoon with some adolescent boys. It is the most utterly pointless piece of celluloid ever exposed to the light of day.

There are scads of other, unrelated things, like some bad horror shorts from the 1920s to 1960s set to the tune of "Little Jack-o-lantern" sung by 'The Dead Elvi'. There are some amazingly boring audio tracks superimposed over random other things like stills and spook show art (this gets tedious...there are 300 stills in this section), there is a ride through a fun house, something called 'Chased By Monsters', that I never grasped it's reason for existing, and it's all introduced by the amazing 'Hypnoscope,' an effect used much more effectively by Ray Dennis Steckler in 'The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies.' There is also a documentary named 'Don't Be Afraid', about fearing darkness, but honestly after looking over and over through that stupid menu, I could never find it, so I really can't tell you anything about it.

This DVD was supposed to be fun. Instead, all I felt was 'Tormented'.

Great For Buffs Of Movie Exhibition History!.......2003-12-04

This was great fun, and if you are a theater historian, look no further-the booklet, trailers, and ads alone are worth the price of the package. Its hard to believe how big spook shows were from the 20's-60's, but forgotten now-the booklet was a great read! But the menus are a nightmare when trying to find a favorite section-you'll probably have to make notes and tuck them in the case, like I did. The logos are a pain as well, but I've seen this material pirated, so SW has their reasons. Enjoy!

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Monster Party stands the test of time
BIG BOOBED PUPPET/ SKELETON ROCK BAND/ I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO....
Some Nostalgia Is Best Left In The Past
Great!
very pleased

Mad Monster Party
Starring: Boris Karloff , Allen Swift , Gale Garnett , Phyllis Diller , and Ethel Ennis
Director: Jules Bass
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Release Date: 2003-08-19

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Customer Reviews:

Monster Party stands the test of time.......2007-05-13

BIG BOOBED PUPPET/ SKELETON ROCK BAND/ I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO...........2007-05-11

Some Nostalgia Is Best Left In The Past.......2007-04-02

Great!.......2007-03-10

This movie is a KICK IN THE PANTS! Just watching all the old time actors portrayed in claymation is a laugh a minute! If you love all the old claymation movies, you'll love this one too!

very pleased.......2007-03-08

the movie was sent out quickly. The movie was of great quality. I have only good things to say about the service from this company.

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