Monster of the Day #3356

Updated on March 9, 2022 By Ken Begg 15 Comments

Great B-Fest line-up (all the youngsters stayed away because of, presumably, the ‘Rona, so no huge percentage of recent films, as they were picked by the old far contingent of the traditional audience). Brain that Wouldn’t Die was followed by Master of the Flying Guillotine (great choice), Firewalker, the perennial Plan 9 from Outer Space, the horribly dull Euro shocker Night of a 1,000 Cats, the animated disaster Foodfight!, Marihuana the Weed with Roots in Hell, and Hercules in New York. Finally, at a scheduled 7:30 AM (I wasn’t there, so I have no idea how close to the schedule they stayed) was none other than Humphrey Bogart as a scientific vampire in The Return of Dr. X. Take that, Morbius.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Wow, the infamous Foodfight.

  • I wonder how Foodfight was received by the audience. How can a movie with sub-cut scene levels of animation get such a great voice cast?

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I read somewhere that it cost around $50 million to make, so they had some money.

  • Now I need to see it…..

  • The Rev.

    I would say you wouldn’t, but I seem to be in the minority so YMMV. My colleagues who’ve also seen it apparently enjoyed it more than I did. Maybe I was in a bad frame of mind (having just seen Night of a Thousand Cats) but I found it an unfunny, turgid slog, and the ridiculously bad animation was only fitfully amusing to me.

  • Maybe B-Fest should show more of these infamous animation disasters, like DELGO and RAPSITTIE STREET KIDS: BELIEVE IN SANTA.

  • Not a bad little flick. Not earthshakingly original, but not that bad.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Poor kitties. It may not have been a thousand but the number they did have did not look happy.

  • I’d never heard of Foodfight, so I went and checked out the trailer on YouTube. And I was never heard from again.

  • Except for that last post. And this post. Obviously.

  • And I’ll probably be posting again at another time.

    Hope none of this destroys the effect of the initial post.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Probably the most entertaining thing to come out of Foodfight were the various YouTube reviewers’ reviews. “I Hate Everything” was particularly notable.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’ve been told by people who actually saw Foodfight that it’s in the running for the worst animated film of all time.

    I do wonder what other titles would be on that list.

  • The Rev.

    I agree, this was quite enjoyable. It also made me wish we’d seen Bogart in more villainous roles; his twitchy weirdo here was highly entertaining.

  • The Rev.

    I have a feeling that Titanic cartoon with the rapping dog might be on there, even though I haven’t seen it.