Monster Mash (2024)

Monster-Mash-(2024)
Monster Mash (2024)

Monster Mash has The Asylum doing what they by all means do the least. After huge beasts, devastating tempests, and gigantic space rocks, they take a nostalgic turn to the old Universal monsters and the like 1940s flicks such as House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. However, since this is The Asylum, there are high chance that they are unwittingly imitating Abbott and Costello, Meet Frankenstein.

Erik Celso Mann stars as Frankenstein’s monster, Boris, who kidnaps Dracula’s daughter Elisabeta(Emma Reinagel Prepare to Die, Arctic Armageddon) and brings her to his house. Then later in the movie, Boris’s creator, Dr. Frankenstein, played by Michael Madsen, asks Boris to retrieve the heart of The Mummy(Adam Slemon Easter Bloody Easter, Bloodsucking Bastards) from the catacombs, who for some strange reason, is not located in her tomb in Egypt.

Dr. Frankenstein makes an appearance with the help of Count Dracula and a medium, where Michelle Bauer serves as the voice. Together, they intend to stop Frankenstein, who wants to stitch together a living ending out of different creatures. Seems quite regal to be honest.

Frankenstein’s standalone feature film has grown quite famous, where an entertainment fusion can be witnessed with a familiar sensation as Ramses, The Invisible Man, and Wolfman join and aid each other in the fight. The concept fluffed for a deeper bearing truth to Monster Mash which got inherited from a prior feature Dracula Original Living Vampire. This unpredictable amalgamation could not be saved by Michael Ironside himself. Fortunately, Prende in his borrowed realistic style accentuates the film Jose Prendes The Exorcists. This style surprisingly seemed to work.

This is not to imply that Prendes merely copied the characters used in the Universal movies. The Asylum film is in question also, hence he has altered several names and looks. But they are famous and what’s more, they are not made into parodies. There is, of course, a disadvantage here such monsters at least in their classical incarnations are not that scary in the first place, so to speak, and it is not out of bounds to make them heroes or antiheroes for that matter. This brings Monster Mash slightly closer to the plot of Hugh Jackman’s Van Helsing, which is more of an action film with some horror aspects to it. The bonds and songs performed by women only add to it.

I made sure not to compare this with The Monster Squad, but there are some comparisons to be made, I simply chose not to. There is a reason why Monster Mash is not truly a kid’s film, and that is because of its title, the same reason that it’s pretty child-friendly. The violence is all implied, but still, people are chopped up, and flayed, and all of these things are accompanied with lots of taking-screams and blaring sound effects which can turn out to be pretty vivid for children with active imagination.

The results we obtain do differ. Creature effects by Jake Porath(Darkness of Man, Attack of The Meth Gator), and Eric Yoder (Dantes Hotel and Walpurgis Night) are effective but a bit on the low end of realism. The CGI used for the giant bat Dracula and the huge monster Dr. Frankenstein turns into works although is not particularly good.

DOP Mark David (Legend of Fall Creek, Slaughterhouse), and Adam Henson give us some Hammeresque glimpses inside the movie’s castles and dungeons but a couple of the shots are too diffused. I got that same feeling yesterday after the film Night Shoot making me believe that the monitor I purchased a month back was losing its efficiency. Alternatively, the other review of Monster Mash as been mentioned, seems to support the idea.

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