How to Make a Monster (1958 film)

How to Make a Monster is a 1958 American horror film released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Teenage Cave Man. The film is a followup to both I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Like Teenage Frankenstein, a blackandwhite film that switched to color for the final moments, How to Make a Monster was filmed in blackandwhite, with the entire last reel filmed in color.

Through hypnosis, Pete urges Larry, in werewolf makeup, 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 selfstyled detective, stops in at the Makeup Room on his rounds one evening. He shows Pete and Rivero, Petes 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, Petemade up as a terrifying primitive monster, one of his own creationskills Monahan in the studio commissary at a later point on his beat.Richards, the older guard, sees and hears nothing, until he uncovers Monahans body. Police investigators uncover two clues a maid, Millie, describes Frankensteins Monster Tony, in makeup, who struck her down as he fled from Claytons murder and the Police Laboratory Technician discovers a peculiar ingredient in the makeup left on Claytons fingers from his death struggle with Tony. The formula matches bits found in Petes old Makeup Room. The police head for Petes house. Pete has taken Rivero, Tony and Larry for a grim farewell party to his home, which is a museum of all the monsters that he has created in theyears at the studio. As Pete lights the candles for the party, the movie switches from blackandwhite to color. Pete has stabbed Rivero to death secretly in the kitchen and hidden his body. Finding Tony and Larry trying to escape the locked living room, he attacks them with a knife. Larry inadvertently knocks over a candelabra, setting the living room on fire, and Pete is burned to death, trying in vain to save the lifelike heads of his monster children mounted on the wall. The police break through the door before the flames reach the boys. ........

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