The Monster Mash has been an authorized graveyard smash since 1962, and now the timeless Halloween hit will probably be tailored into an animated movie by Miramax. CEO Jonathan Glickman, the producer behind the massively common Netflix sequence Wednesday and 2021 movie The Addams Household 2, has optioned the rights to adapt the tune from the property of its co-writer Lenny Capizzi (by way of Deadline).
The Monster Mash was initially carried out by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and finally develop into probably the most common spooky songs of all time, because of its perennial inclusion in Halloween playlists and too many canopy variations to rely. Miramax’s animated film would be the second direct adaptation of the tune, following a 1995 live-action TV film. A number of different movies have borrowed the title with none direct connection to the tune.
The Monster Mash tells the story of a celebration that breaks out in a mad scientist’s laboratory, finally roping in a complete host of common film monsters like Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolfman, and Dracula. Oddly sufficient, the tune tells of a dance often known as the Monster Mash which the monsters all carry out collectively, although it does not talk do the dance itself, so perhaps that is one thing Miramax will work out.
As an animated mission, The Monster Mash will comply with such basic children’ monster motion pictures because the Lodge Transylvania sequence, the marginally extra grownup Monster Squad, and naturally, Rankin-Bass’ 1967 stop-motion basic Mad Monster Social gathering, which has a considerably related premise revolving round a gathering of well-known monsters.
No launch date has but been introduced for the Monster Mash animated film. Whereas we wait, try our picks for the 25 greatest animated motion pictures that are not only for children.
