Made on location in New Zealand, this is a magical story of a little girl who bravely faces a dangerous journey in order to help a group of friendly monsters whose have been stolen by a wicked witch
Girl - Lucy McGrath
Mountain Monster - Paul Farrell
Insect Monster - Paul Jenden
Mud Monster - Ingrid Prosser & Roger Page
Festindook - Leone Hatherly
Nasty - Michael Wilson
TV Witch - Jane Waddell
Writer Burton Silver
Producer Dave Gibson
Director Yvonne Mackay
Gibson Films
The film won a bronze medal at the 1981 New York Film and Television Festival, and was deliberately written as a "location film" and features many of New Zealand's stunning scenic spots. The action takes place round boiling mudpools and geysers, next to dangerous waterfalls, on high mountains and in deep caves full of stalagmites and stalactites. A highlight of the film, which stars nine-year-old Lucy McGrath, is the monsters' descent into a vast volcanic crater down a 200-metre shingle slide on their way to the wicked witch's cave.
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