{"id":26330,"date":"2017-10-08T04:58:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T08:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26330"},"modified":"2017-10-08T04:57:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T08:57:12","slug":"halloween-is-grinch-night-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/08\/halloween-is-grinch-night-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween is Grinch Night (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dr. Seuss\u2019s \u201cThe Grinch that Stole Christmas\u201d was about the materialism of Christmas, and how it\u2019s the spirit that counts. \u201cHalloween is Grinch Night\u201d is about how you\u2014uh\u2014shouldn\u2019t let\u2026 Grinches\u2026 ruin Halloween for you. And stuff\u2026? Despite being written by Dr. Seuss, \u201cHalloween is Grinch Night\u201d is a weak prequel that doesn\u2019t quite bind with the \u201cChristmas\u201d exploits of our angry green monster. For one, his dog Max leaves him in the final scene when he fails to hurt Whoville on \u201cGrinch Night,\u201d thus there\u2019s not a lot of explanation when he\u2019s back in the actual short film. Also, the animation compared to the original is so drastic, it\u2019s distracting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHalloween is Grinch Night\u201d looks like it was made in a rush in an attempt to catch the momentum of the Christmas special. But where Chuck Jones\u2019 animation was pronounced, measured, and elegant, this just looks shoddy and hackneyed. Ultimately, \u201cHalloween is Grinch Night\u201d is about facing your fears, and our hero from Whoville Euchariah has to face the Grinch, who does his best to frighten him. In the climax, he even unleashes all of his scares available in his Paraphernilia Wagon. Euchariah is swept in to Mt. Crumpit accidentally due to horrible winds, and he encounters the dreaded Grinch and his dog Max. The Grinch plans to use his Paraphernilia Wagon to hurt Whoville, by unleash terrors, and Euchariah decides to distract him as long as he can and wait out the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cHalloween is Grinch Night\u201d is such a lackluster prequel to \u201cChristmas,\u201d and doesn\u2019t quite amount to a lot of the poetic commentary and subtlety that the Christmas original had. Not to mention the protagonists are shockingly irritating as they not only identify each by name every second, but you can sense Seuss struggling to rhyme Euchariah, Josiah, and Mariah with literally anything. One character actually rhymes \u201churt\u201d with \u201cthurt\u201d (Who speak for \u201cthought,\u201d apparently). Hans Conried does an okay job replacing Boris Karloff as The Grinch, it\u2019s just this prequel is so uninspired and lackluster, that he never quite shines. The movie also brings up the inadvertent scenario that maybe to stop the Grinch once and for all, the Whos in Whoville should stop announcing their holidays and play it low key. That would work wonders, in the long run.<\/p>\n