The original adverts used claymation special effects, similar in style to those made famous in the movies of Ray Harryhausen.
Despite its low production values, the film has achieved a certain cult status for the appearance of Price and other AIP Beach Party film alumni, its in-jokes and over-the-top sexism, the claymation title sequence designed by Art Clokey, and a title song performed by The Supremes.
I suppose I should have known that any band named after the claymation villain in the dated The Year Without a Santa Claus would have a sense of humor.
The music video for "I Stay Away" was released in 1994 and was directed by Nick Donkin, famous for his claymation film The Junky's Christmas.
He was the picture editor and sound designer on Will Vinton's The Adventures of Mark Twain, Meet the Raisins, and four Claymation Specials for CBS.
The 2009 claymation film Mary and Max is about the pen pal relationship between an American man and an Australian girl.
Kalil has interests in the film industry, having made claymation films as a child and worked with fellow USC-alumnus Will Ferrell on a football training spoof for the NFL Network.
His early work in animation included the popular British claymation television series The Trap Door for Bristol-based animation studio CMTB Animation.