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Miramax is turning the 1962 Halloween anthem Monster Mash into an animated movie. The project is being developed under the ...

The iconic song was first released in August 1962 and spent two weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart that October.

“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire. In the early 1960s two cultural ...

Miramax is turning the 1962 hit song “Monster Mash” into an animated movie. Bobby “Boris” Pickett performed the original ...

Deadline reports an animated film based on Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s 1962 song, “The Monster Mash”, is now in development at ...

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The "Monster Mash" was more than just a graveyard smash — it was also banned in the U.K. for many years! Learn about the Halloween track's unexpected origins Every October, a hopelessly kitschy ...