Monsters Crash the Pajama Party
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| Directed by | David L. Hewitt |
| Written by | Story: David L. Hewitt |
| Produced by | David L. Hewitt |
| Starring | Vic McGee James Reason Peter James Noto |
| Cinematography | Austin McKinney |
| Music by | David L. Hewitt |
| Distributed by | David L. Hewitt and Associates |
Release date | 1965 |
Running time | 31 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Monsters Crash the Pajama Party is an American horror film from 1965. It is about a group of teenagers in a haunted house that happens to be the headquarters of a laboratory used by a mad doctor who attempts to transform them all into gorillas. During its original theatrical release, actors would venture out into the seats in costumes as though they were the monsters coming out of the movie screen, similar to The Tingler.
Synopsis
A group of teenage girls spends the night in an old dark mansion as an initiation into a college sorority. The girls all agree to the initiation due to them all not believing in ghosts. Their boyfriends begin to play spooky pranks on them with store-bought masks, which fails to frighten the girls since they had been expecting these pranks. However, unbeknownst to the teenagers, the building is actually the headquarters for a mad scientist and his hunchbacked assistant, who are experimenting with turning humans into gorillas. The mad doctor abducts the girls, who are later rescued by the boys. The boyfriends then fight off the doctor's henchmen, a gorilla, a werewolf, and a creature of some sort. Incensed by his monsters' failure to re-capture any of the girls, he instructs them to blast a hole through the movie screen with a laser gun and venture out into the audience.
It is at this point during the original theatrical run of the film that actors dressed as the monsters from the movie would wander about the theatre seats to scare people, however lightly. The actors often wanted to seem comically spooky rather than actually scary.
Cast
- Vic McGee as Mad Doctor / Lt. Hudson
- James Reason as Professor Williams
- Clara Nadel as Miss Petrie
- Pauline Hillkurt as Draculina
- Charles Hegen as Igor
DVD Release
Monsters Crash the Pajama Party was released on DVD by Something Weird Video in September of 2007. The DVD was positively received due to its visually-interesting cover, extensive menus, and abundance of short horror films and clips. James Rolfe reviewed the film and its DVD in his third Monster Madness marathon. He enjoyed the DVD's features, saying that watching and looking around the different films and menus on the DVD was great and fun to do on Halloween. He did say, however, that the 3-D glasses included were mediocre due to the lack of an ability to actually wear them, and that the 3-D film itself that the glasses were made for doesn't work well at all.
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