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Director
  
Yvonne Mackay

Written by
  
Burton Silver

Writer
  
Burton Silver

Language
  
English

6.8/10
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Genre
  
Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Duration
  

Country
  
New Zealand

The Monsters Christmas movie poster
Release date
  
25 December 1981 (NL)

Cast
  
Paul Jenden, Paul Farrell, Lucy McGrath, Paul Ferrell

Genres
  
Fantasy, Adventure Film, Family film

Similar movies
  
The Silent One (1985), The Haunting of Barney Palmer (1987), Nearly No Christmas (1983)

The Monsters Christmas is a TV Christmas film made in New Zealand in 1981.

The movie tells the tale of a young girl who is approached by a monster from one of her storybooks to help him and other monsters regain their voices that have been stolen by a wicked witch. It was directed by Yvonne Mackay and starred Lucy McGrath, Jane Waddell and Bernard Kearns. According to Gibson Group, the movies distributor it was "deliberately written and planned as a location film, it incorporates many of New Zealand’s beautiful scenic spots". A region 1 DVD was released in 2004.

In her bed on Christmas Eve, a little girl reads an illustrated storybook entitled "The Monster's Christmas" to her teddy bear, as something sneaks around in the trees outside her window. She hears a noise in the other room, and thinking that it's Father Christmas, she goes to investigate. Instead she finds one of the monsters from her book, who has come to find someone to help defeat an evil witch that has stolen the voices of all monsters; because they sang better at Christmas carols than she did. The little girl agrees to help, and armed with the contents of her Christmas stocking sets out on a surreal, imaginative, electronically sounded, novelly avant-garde, one-of-a-kind, brain-tickling, foam-monster populated outdoor fantasy adventure through smoky fields, magical forests, boiling, bubbling mud pools, volcanic landscapes and secret witch mountain cave lairs.

References

The Monsters Christmas Wikipedia
The Monsters Christmas IMDb The Monsters Christmas themoviedb.org


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