Trivia / Cinemassacre's Monster Madness

• Corpsing: The House on Haunted Hill (1959) review opens with a botched take of the "It's Cinemassacre's Mooooooooonster Madness!" intro where James loses it during the long O, which isn't used in any other video.
• Troubled Production: Happened to the 2021 series, as the series was actively premiering no less. James Rolfe, no longer running a "real" one-man operation with Monster Madness by this point, had brought in a team of writers and editors unto the project, but this would turn out to cause serious problems down the line. Following the release of the first episode, on 28 Days Later, many viewers noted that there was something rather odd about the episode, as it deviated quite a bit from James' usual style. Some investigation by forum posters would then reveal that large parts of the script for said episode had been lifted more or less directly from film scholar and critic Cecilia Sayad's 2003 review in the Film Comment magazine. The Cinemassacre time shortly thereafter would come out and admit that the accusations of plagiarism were true, but at first they treated it as a harmless and accidental one-time occurrence. However, the second episode, on Bad Taste showed some of the same odd style dissonance issues, and another investigation from various internet sleuths uncovered the fact that the episode had stolen quite a bit of its material from a review of the film on the horror movie review site Screenage Wasteland. The problem now couldn't be written off as an accident, and it triggered an internal investigation, and it would turn to be much more comprehensive than originally thought. The writer for the episode, Newt Wallen, had all of the scripts he had submitted re-examined, and it was found that basically all of them were liberally cribbed from other sources. Wallen was in short order fired, and the rest of the writers was put to the task of hastily rewriting his scripts (a tall order, since Wallen had written 20 of the episodes), a process which was so stressful that it caused at least one member of the production team to quit.

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