Even more amazing is that "Herculoids" and most of those holiday entertainments were hand-me-downs from Boomers. And sometimes not even English-speaking hand-me-downs. For example, Morozko
Both of these would later be mocked on "Mystery Science Theather 3000" along with the perennial 1964 classic Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.
Jack Frost was the subject of one of the lesser--yes, one of the lesser--Rankin-Bass stop-motion animated specials. He's a sympathetic character in that one, but I'm pretty sure he was villainous in one of the other Rankin-Bass abominations.
As bad as the Russian Jack Frost is, it towers over the Michael Keaton movie of the same name. I saw that in a theater, believe it or not. Keaton is an on-the-road musician dad who ends up dying and being given a chance to fix things--as a snowman. Michael Keaton. Star of Batman. Snowman.
The premiere Jack Frost movie is also about a human being reincarnated as a snowman: This Jack Frost
Better even then this movie is its sequel: Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
I love MK, what happened to him? It's like Baatman killed his career.
ReplyDeleteSomebody needs to find him a TV drama vehicle, a la Gary Sinise or Patrick Swayze. Although Keaton could do comedy fantastically well, too.
Yeah, he made a good Batman, even, which no one was expecting at the time. He's just been in a lot of dogs.
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