How to Make a Monster (1958), directed by Herbert L. Strock. This film is something of a sequel to I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, and like the latter it has one reel in colour. The colour reel is the final reel and here the action takes place inside the make-up artist Pete Dumond’s ((Robert H. Harris) gallery of horrors. The plot has American International Studios changing management, and the new people cut the monster films because the bigwigs think such films are no longer popular. The studio’s make-up artist, Dumond, does not take kindly to receiving a pink slip, and so he sets out to exact revenge upon those who would decry his artistry and deprive him of a paycheck. He concocts a make-up base that allows him to control two young actors who are playing the Frankenstein monster and a werewolf in the studio’s final monster flick. He has them carry out a couple of murders. Then he makes himself up and commits another murder. Later he murders his assistant, the whining Rivero (Paul Brinegar), and threatens to murder the two young actors. Meanwhile the police investigate the murders. All’s well that ends well. The self-referential stuff in the film has its interest.