{"id":18760,"date":"2025-12-09T23:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=18760"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:03:47","slug":"old-movie-adventures-the-monster-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/09\/old-movie-adventures-the-monster-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Movie Adventures: The Monster Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ralph Morgan in The Monster Maker.\" class=\"wp-image-18764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-2.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-2-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:163,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/boxd.it\\\/5dMJ&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/actor\\\/terry-frost-1\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-1.jpg\" alt=\"J. Carrol Naish in The Monster Maker.\" class=\"wp-image-18763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-1-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-1-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My friend&#8217;s grandfather, Terry Frost, was a character actor who appeared in hundreds of movies from the forties to the sixties. <a href=\"https:\/\/boxd.it\/5dMJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letterboxd only lists 89<\/a>, but I&#8217;m guessing many of his parts were uncredited. I&#8217;d never seen any of his movies. Most of his movies were westerns, but this sci-fi horror flick had the largest part of his that I could find to watch, so I went with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;d expect from a 40s science fiction b-movie. Low budget, short, full of nonsense science, wild coincidences, and a laboratory with a gorilla for no reason other than mad scientist&#8217;s labs are supposed to have gorillas. A perfectly acceptable excuse to sit in the dark and eat popcorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s fake poster is the third one I&#8217;ve done based on a movie from the seventies&#8217; &#8220;classy porn&#8221; period. The others are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/09\/walk-of-fame-adventures-the-death-kiss-and-adrienne-ames\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/15\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-the-blue-gardenia-and-ann-sothern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. I picked it mainly because there are very few decent quality images available from this movie. But I did learn how to load alternate characters from a font into Photoshop. I was afraid I&#8217;d have to draw them in manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for The Monster Maker mimicking the poster for The Devil in Miss Jones.\" class=\"wp-image-18762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-monster-maker.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend&#8217;s grandfather, Terry Frost, was a character actor who appeared in hundreds of movies from the forties to the sixties. Letterboxd only lists 89, but I&#8217;m guessing many of his parts were uncredited. I&#8217;d never seen any of his movies. Most of his movies were westerns, but this sci-fi horror flick had the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20],"tags":[350,78,10],"class_list":["post-18760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","tag-fake-posters","tag-movies","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18775,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18760\/revisions\/18775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}