How to Make a Monster (1958 film)
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| Directed by | Herbert L. Strock |
| Produced by |
Herman Cohen James H. Nicholson |
| Written by |
Herman Cohen Aben Kandel |
| Starring |
Robert H. Harris Gary Conway Gary Clarke Morris Ankrum |
| Music by | Paul Dunlap |
| Cinematography | Maury Gertsman |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
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73 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
How to Make a Monster is a 1958 American horror film released in 1958 by American International Pictures (as a double feature with Teenage Cave Man). It was produced and written by Herman Cohen, and starred Gary Conway, Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar of "Rawhide", Morris Ankrum, Robert Shayne and John Ashley. It was directed by Herbert L. Strock.
The film is a follow-up to both I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Like Teenage Frankenstein, a black-and-white film that switched to color for the final moments, How to Make a Monster was filmed in black-and-white, with only the last reel filmed in color.
Pete Dumond, Chief Make-up Artist for 25 years at American International Studios, is fired after the studio is purchased by NBN Associates. The new management from the East, Jeffrey Clayton and John Nixon, plan to make musicals and comedies instead of the horror pictures for which Pete has created his remarkable monster make-ups and made the studio famous. In retaliaton, Pete vows to use the very monsters these men have rejected to destroy them. By mixing a numbing ingredient into his foundation cream and persuading the young actors that their careers are through unless they place themselves in his power, he hypnotizes both Larry Drake and Tony Mantell (who are playing the characters Teenage Werewolf and Teenage Frankenstein, respectively, in the picture Werewolf Meets Frankenstein,currently shooting on the lot).
Through hypnosis, Pete urges Larry, in werewolf make-up, to kill Nixon in the studio projection room. Later, he wills the unknowing Tony to wait for Clayton in his garage at night and brutally choke him to death. Studio guard Monahan, a self-styled detective, stops in at the Make-up Room on his rounds one evening. He shows Pete and Rivero, Pete's reluctant assistant and accomplice, his little black book in which he has jotted down many facts, such as the late time Pete and Rivero checked out the night of the first murder. By this show of initiative he plans to get a promotion. Apprehensive, Pete—made up as a terrifying primitive monster, one of his own creations—kills Monahan in the studio commissary at a later point on his beat.
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