Review – How to Make a Monster

For your video rental dollar you get not only the lesson promised by the title but also an extra bonus: an hour and a half worth of “How to Make a Really Crappy Movie.” Honestly, I know Stan Winston is trying to remake the whole string of Arkoff camp horror classics, but some movies are just better off dead. Or if they really had to resurrect this particular opus, they ought really to have at least tried to come up with something that’s been done a bit less frequently than the evil video game that comes to life. The script is lame. The effects are lame. The gore is really lame. Even the lame nudity is lamer than usual. Video game geeks appear to be the only target audience in mind here, and I have to admit that I’m not precisely the best person to judge its effectiveness on that count. However, just about everyone else can safely steer clear. Wish I’d skipped it