Oriental Trading Monster Mash-Up

Okay, file this under just cute.

Oriental Trading, the company that sells party supplies, arts and crafts, toys and novelties , has a site where you can put your family and friends into a mini Monster Mash Video. Click HERE to view.

What you do is pick one of three scenes, upload photos of your friends and family(or you can use Facebook to snag their faces) to turn into the heads for the monster characters and your done. After you preview your movie you can email to anyone or post it on Facebook.

It's in the same vein (I know, very punny) as the Jib Jab videos and it's only for the Halloween season (they don't let you download it due to licencing issues). Hurry up and go get yours made today.

Until Next Time, Stay Insane!

Vincent Price's Monster Mash...in a way

After posting the Mannheim Steamroller clip of Monster Mash yesterday I wanted to find another cool version of the song. Searching Youtube I found this one by great Vincent Price.

Warning, the song doesn't start right away, the person who posted the clip edited in the closing scene from Monster Club before the song which kinda-sorta matches. The song was recorded by Price in 1977 and has a disco vibe to it, which given the era it was done can be forgiven.

Oh, did you noticed those dancers edited in too? They were called Pan's People from Britain's Top of The Pops. In the days before videos, when a performer was unable to appear to sing the song on the shop, this group would dance to the song. Reminds me a little of Alice Cooper's dancers from his Welcome To My Nightmare tour.

Until Next Time, Stay Insane!

Monster Mash by Mannheim Steamroller

I'm not a big Mannheim Steamroller fan except around Christmas, so I was surprised to find this video of them covering the great Bobby (Boris) Pickett's Monster Mash. It's pretty cool, they don't try to sound exactly like the original, which some people make the mistake of doing, and switch it up a bit for fun. I'll post more covers of Monster Mash as I find them.