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How To Make A Monster [DVD] [1958]

DVD ~ Robert H. Harris
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  • Actors: Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, Malcolm Atterbury
  • Directors: Herbert L. Strock
  • Writers: Herman Cohen, Aben Kandel
  • Producers: Herman Cohen, James H. Nicholson
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: DVD UK
  • DVD Release Date: 26 May 2003
  • Run Time: 73 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000092WA4
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 75,417 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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After 25 years of devoted work Pete the make-up monster creator is to be made redundant from the film studios where he works, as the latest horror cycle is over and the studios are to start producing un-scary musicals. Understandably he is a bit upset by his treatment and he decides to take revenge on the studio bosses. Mixing a special foundation that blocks the actors pores and acts like a frontal lobotomy, he controls the Teenage Werewolf and the Teenage Frankenstein to commit his crimes and to bring the studio down!

Samuel Z. Arkoff started producing movies with his partner James Nicholson in 1954 when they set up American International Pictures and capitalised on the trend of teenagers being the main cinema audience of the time. During the late fifties studios were also becoming aware that audiences were becoming tired of movies that centred around outright monsters, so Kandel wrote How to Make a Monster to mirror this and had the main threat as a psychotic make-up artist. Will the two actors remember what they did? Will Pete be able to add the Werewolf and Frankenstein to his special collection? Will the police make the link between the killer’s monster markings and the make-up artist? Or will they carry on assuming the killer is a real monster? Find out in How to Make a Monster where the final reel is shot in glorious technicolour!

How To Make a Monster is directed by Herbert L. Strock, who crossed over into horror when taking over direction of The Magnetic Monster halfway through production.

Special Features
50 minute audio interview with Samuel Z. Arkoff, recorded in 1991 at the National Film Theatre which is accompanied by pictures taken at the time.
Nine original Theatrical Film Trailers of movies from the Arkoff Film library including: The Spider, Day The World Ended, How To Make a Monster, The She-Creature, The Brain Eaters, Voodoo Woman, The Undead, Blood Of Dracula and Reform School Girl.

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4.0 out of 5 stars And you thought YOUR teenagers were bad, 25 May 2003
By Laughing Gravy (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews
Fans of cheesy American 1950s horror and sci-fi cinema have long awaited the digital remastering and DVD release of their favorites Eisenhower-era ghouls and goblins, and DVD UK, Ltd., comes through with a grand series of spookers from the estate of Samuel Z. Arkoff, co-founder of American-International Pictures.

HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER (1958) features Robert H. Harris as a makeup artist who specializes in creating movie monsters. When the new studio executives decide the "monster craze" is over and unceremoniously fire him, he hypnotizes two young actors, makes them up as movie monsters (the Teenage Werewolf and Teenage Frankenstein), and sends them off on a mission of revenge. This is a fun picture, with lots of in-jokes about American-International. In one scene, a director filming "Werewolf Meets Frankenstein" tells his stars, "This is the big scene of the picture. The audience has been waiting for this... it's a fight to the death, it's a battle of the monsters. And it must be the high spot of the picture. It's got to be the greatest fight we've ever had on the screen. And I've got to get it in one take."

MONSTER features restored color footage for the film's final reel, a gimmick used by AIP from time to time, and the climax is especially impressive. Picture and sound quality are excellent, and each of the discs in the series features nifty animated menus with each film's theme music and snatches of dialog. A special delight are the theatrical trailers for the nine films in the series; the trailers are filled with the kind of hyperbole you just don't hear at the movies any more: "Terror stalks – with the stealthy steps of DEATH!" and "The screen's new high in NAKED SCREAMING TERROR!" As an extra bonus, each DVD includes postcard-sized replicas of the theatrical posters for each of the nine films in the series.

The Arkoff series continues with additional releases throughout the year. These movies are irresistible to monster lovers, and highly recommended.

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4.0 out of 5 stars HOW TO MAKE A MOVIE, 4 Jul 2003
By Laughing Gravy (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews
Fans of cheesy 1950s horror and science-fiction cinema have long awaited the digital remastering and DVD release of their favorites Eisenhower-era ghouls and goblins, and HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER is one of my favorites.

Robert H. Harris is a makeup artist who specializes in creating movie monsters. When the new studio executives decide the "monster craze" is over and unceremoniously fire him, he hypnotizes two young actors, makes them up as movie monsters, and sends them off on a mission of revenge. This is a fun picture, with lots of in-jokes about American-International. In one scene, a director filming WEREWOLF MEETS FRANKENSTEIN tells his stars, "This is the big scene of the picture. The audience has been waiting for this... it's a fight to the death, it's a battle of the monsters. And it must be the high spot of the picture. It's got to be the greatest fight we've ever had on the screen. And I've got to get it in one take."

The color footage in MONSTER, which I'd never seen before, is especially impressive. Picture and sound quality are excellent. And the disc includes no less than nine "coming attraction" trailers for other films in the series. The trailers are a delight, filled with the kind of hyperbole you just don't hear at the movies any more: "Terror stalks – with the stealthy steps of DEATH!" and "The screen's new high in NAKED SCREAMING TERROR!" Highly recommended.

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