Review of How to Make a Monster

Monster makeup artist Pete Dumond (Robert H. Harris) will soon be out of a job when the new heads of the movie studio he works for tell him his services are no longer required as they tell him they plan to stop making horror films to concentrate on musicals. Since the studio depicted in this picture is actually American International Pictures, this seems to partly parallel this particular company's transition from horror movies like this one and subsequent ones starring Vincent Price to the singing "beach party" ones starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Anyway, this was quite an entertaining thriller whenever the makeup artist attempts to exact his revenge by having his latest actor subjects get hypnotized when putting his unique facial paint on them in order to get them to do his bidding. That's especially true when the scenes transition from black-and-white to color! So on that note, I highly recommend How to Make a Monster.