Tag: Mad Monster Party

Let’s get this monster party started

Yes, there is end of the week film news tonight/this morning I could talk about — a possible break in the long-running saga of MGM; a surprise presidential departure at Sony; and the disappointing news that the premier of “The Circus” was probably not visited by an aged, possibly cross-dressing time-traveler.  Nah. How could I possibly follow an interview with the director “Monster A-Go-Go” with anything remotely sensical? Time for a fairly random movie monster mash to get the Halloween weekend going.

And now Vincent Price, with a little help from John Carradine, gives a disturbing speech (what’s a “hume”?) and brings a disco spin to the actual “Monster Mash” from the movie…actually, I have no idea what movie this is from. Is this from a movie? Did I dream this?

And, remember, “only the weird zombies remain.”

The lost art of opening credits: “Mad Monster Party”

I love traditional opening credit sequences, something that has literally been slowly going out of style since at least the early sixties and “West Side Story. ” Aside from occasionally providing a bit of final cushion for latecomers, just as I like to know the author of a book I’m reading before I read it, I’d like to know who’s made the movie I’m watching before I see it, not after. Mainly, I just love the way they give us a minute to kind of enter the world of the film in some sort of interesting way.

That’s all well and good, you say, but why lead off with the opening of an obscurity from my childhood like this?

Because I can?

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