Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Ten rules for making a movie monster

Never make your monster wear a diving helmet


From denofgeek, If the remarkably inept 1953 sci-fi classic Robot Monster has taught us anything, it's that you need more than a diving helmet and a bear suit to create a scary cinematic creature. Shot for $16,000 dollars, the film ranks alongside Plan 9From Outer Space as one of the most unintentionally funny films ever made.

See the full list here

2 comments:

AC said...

added it to the queue!

Octopunk said...

50PageMcGee had a hilarious quote from that movie as his voicemail greeting for, like, ever.

The problems with that list are:

1. There's only nine things on it

2. Some are do's and some are don'ts. While the individual points are good, I disliked the structure.

'Cause, you know, there I am, making a scary monster, and suddenly I'm all "wait, is sexy good or bad? Dammit."

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