How to Make a Monster ** (1958, Robert H Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke, John Ashley) – Classic Movie Review 4998

‘Werewolf, meet Frankenstein. Shake hands and come out snarling.’ Director Herbert L Strock’s amusing, odd and fairly inventive 1958 horror movie stars Robert H Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway as Tony Mantell (Teenage Frankenstein) and Gary Clarke as Larry Drake (Teenage Werewolf).

Harris stars as Pete Dumond, chief make-up artist for 25 years at American International Studios, who is fired after the studio is purchased by NBN Associates and uses his creations to exact revenge on the new bosses.

Produced and written by Herman Cohen, it co-stars Malcolm Atterbury, Morris Ankrum, Walter Reed, Paul Maxwell, Robert Shayne and John Ashley. James H Nicholson co-produces and Aben Kandel co-writes.

It was released by American International Pictures in a double feature with Teenage Caveman (1958).

A follow-up to I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, it is shot in black-and-white with colour for the last reel.

Dumond’s props destroyed in the fire were created by Paul Blaisdell for earlier AIP films The She-Creature (1956), It Conquered the World (1956), Invasion of the Saucer Men (1956) and Attack of the Puppet People (1958).

AIP did not have a studio so the film was shot at Ziv Studios and a sign was put up re-naming it American International Pictures.

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