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The Monster's Christmas

Television (Full Length) – 1981

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No ordinary Christmas tale, The Monster’s Christmas throws viewers into a world of friendly creatures, talking hot pools and witches with gym equipment in their cave lairs. Child find Lucy McGrath revels in the role of a plucky girl who encounters a one-eyed monster with smoke billowing from his head. The monsters need her help to steal their voices back from an evil witch. The stylings of the live action creatures were influenced by the volcanic North Island locations, and designed by Janet Williamson and cartoonist Burton Silver. Yvonne Mackay (Kaitangata Twitch) directs.

... if one can be brave as a child and master the monsters, then it’s giving children credit for having self-determination. They like the challenge ... Monsters are the biggest, scariest things for a child, and they relate to being able to be in control of something bigger than their pet.
– Director Yvonne Mackay on why children respond to the idea of monsters, in an interview with website Spectacular Optical