{"id":30115,"date":"2022-07-03T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30115"},"modified":"2022-07-03T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T18:40:53","slug":"how-to-make-a-monster-1958-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30115","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How to Make a Monster&#8221; (1958) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z070322zview_howtomakeamonster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"760\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How to Make a Monster <\/strong><\/em>(1958)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Herbert L. Strock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Herman Cohen. Aben Kandel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <em>Robert H. Harris<\/em><strong>, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway <\/strong>and <strong>Gary Clarke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em>\u00a0 See the ghastly ghouls&#8230; IN FLAMING COLOR!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pete Dumond (Harris) has been a monster movie make-up man for American International Pictures for decades.\u00a0 When the studio is sold, the new owners decide that monster movies are on the way out.\u00a0 They fire Dumond and his long-time assistant, Rivero (Brinegar).\u00a0 Dumond uses mind control to get the actors playing the teenage werewolf (Clarke) and teenage Frankenstein (Conway) to kill the new owners one-by-one.\u00a0 When the clues begin to point towards Dumond all bets are off on who will be the next to die!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>How to Make a Monster<\/em> is more clever than good.\u00a0 It&#8217;s clever because&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It brings back monsters (Teenage Frankenstein and Teenage Werewolf) from their past movies for a team-up.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It uses American International Pictures (the real movie studio that released the film) as the studio in the movie.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It takes us behind the scenes on the studio of American International Pictures when in reality AIP didn&#8217;t own a studio!\u00a0 They rented space from other studios.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The monster head props and movie posters that appear in the background of scenes are from past AIP monster movies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ads say that you will see the monsters (Teenage Frankenstein and Wolfman) in color for the first time, but only the last scenes were shot in color to save money!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>How to Make a Monster<\/em> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z070322zview_howtomakeamonster2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Make a Monster (1958) Director: Herbert L. Strock Screenplay by: \u00a0Herman Cohen. Aben Kandel Starring:\u00a0 Robert H. 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