Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Aug 5, 2000Famous Monster Bash/Stop-Motion Animation
Absolutely delightful stop-motion animated homage to the Universal Famous Monsters, which places tongue perfectly in cheek
Phyllis Diller
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987)
Jun 29, 2008Animation/Alice in Wonderland Film
Obscure animated children's movie adaptation of Alice in Wonderland that commits the sin of modernising and Americanizing Alice
Dr Hackenstein (1988)
Oct 16, 2001Mad Scientist
An excruciatingly bad mad scientist film about a scientist tying to find a body to reattach his wife's head. This treads only where Re-Animator went before. Much of this feels like it should have been played as a comedy
The Boneyard (1991)
May 4, 2016Zombie Children Overrun a Mortuary
Part of the 80s/90s fad for makeup effects driven popcorn horror – in this case, actually directed by an effects artist. The film moves slow as molasses but the giant zombie poodle and zombie Phyllis Diller do compensate
A Bug’s Life (1998)
Jun 19, 1999Pixar Animation/Talking Insects
The second film from Pixar. One of their slighter and usually overlooked works, this is nevertheless an enjoyably eccentric reworking of The Seven Samurai set amidst a circus troupe of talking insects