qmtv The story starts OK, we meet the crazy mad doctor and his assistant, and the young woman the doctor is infatuated with, her famous piano playing father (the monster), and her boyfriend. All decent actors. I especially liked some of the crazy acting by the doctor's assistant. The problem here is the story and the dialogue. It's just boring and seriously implausible. The doctor is annoying the young woman by sending her flowers, because she resembles his late wife. Her father goes to the doctor to put an end to it. The doctor knocks out the father and injects him with a serum that turns him into the elephant man. Now the doctor is blackmailing the father, by exchanging a cure for the disease for his daughters hand in marriage. Side not, also, I believe the doctor tells his assistant that he killed his wife because she was having an affair with someone else. And also, the doctor is not a doctor, he actually killed the real doctor and took his place. But he's still doing research on some rare disease that he's the only one that can cure. There's also a man in a gorilla suite. And a gorilla in a man's suite (the doctor's butler).This thing is a freaking mess. There's a scene where the fake doctor explains to his assistant that he killed his wife, and killed the real doctor and took his place. The assistant freaks out and tells him she's going to the police. He tells her to shut up and get back to work. She calms down and goes back to work. Later when she goes to bed, the fake doctor lets out the gorilla from the cage to attack the assistant. We see the gorilla open the assistant's door, she screams. Let's not forget the dog. The lab dog comes to the rescue of the assistant. Next scene the assistant is in the lab with the doctor like nothing happened. This is some full on garbage. I don't care what time period this was made in.OK, the butler gets knocked out while trying to kill or tie down the assistant. The elephant guy is wrestling with the doctor who is holding a gun. The gun goes off. The doctor is dead. The assistant unelephants the piano player. Next scene the piano player is playing a concert, the young woman and her boyfriend, and the assistant are happily watching the show. The Freaking End.I give this movie a D, or 3 stars. Mainly for the acting and the music. The story is garbage. The dialogue goes along with the story, crap. This could have been a decent little film. The film makers had no idea what they were doing. They had a story and ran with it. Nobody said, wait maybe we can find another story or find some other angles.I recommend instead to watch Bela Lugosi's best film "White Zombie", or "Messiah of Evil", "Footprints on the Moon", "Last Man on Earth". Better to watch these films a hundred times than watch The Monster Maker. The only way to watch the Monster Maker and enjoy it is if you approach it as a comedy where the filmmakers are involved in the joke. Thank you, good night.

morrison-dylan-fan Taking a look at a box set that a very kind fellow IMDber has given me,I spotted a movie which sounded like a fun "creature feature",which led to me getting ready to seeing the monsters being made.The plot:Attending a performance by composer Anthony Lawrence, Dr. Igor Markoff notices a woman in the audience who looks just like his dead wife. Spotting Markoff's glances,the woman turns away from Markoff's view.Meeting Anthony backstage,Markoff discovers that the mysterious woman is Anthony's daughter Patricia.Since his wife's suicide,Markoff has been working on formula's which give and cure people of illnesses.Setting his sights on Patricia,Markoff decides to compose a special score for her dad.View on the film:Despite having a creature feature-style title,the film actually turns out to be a mad scientist flick,which includes the genres man in a gorilla suit trademark.Whilst the movie does not break away from the genre,the screenplay by Larry Williams/Pierre Gendron & Martin Mooney keep the 62 minutes speeding by,thanks to the writers allowing Markoff to take his time in getting a tight grip on the Lawrence's.Covered in stylish Film Noir lighting from director Sam Newfield, J. Carrol Naish gives a terrific performance as Markoff,with Naish keeping Markoff away from being a simple boo-hiss villain,by showing him to have (some ) determination in actually finding a cure,as Markoff starts to turn Anthony into a monster.

Rainey Dawn This is a fairly good entertaining film concerning a conceited mad scientist named Dr. Igor Markoff.Dr. Igor falls for a woman named Patricia who resembles his dead wife. Patricia rejects the doctor's advances and enlists her father (Anthony) to help stop the doctor from coming on so strong to her. Dr. Igor insists that Patricia marries him and will stop at nothing for her to become his new bride. Surprisingly, the doctor is actually well respected in the medical community and hides his wicked ways well from others. Dr. Igor hides the fact he will inject his enemies with Acromegaly to get what he wants.The movie is fun, a bit corny and has some fairly good horror moments in it. This is a good afternoon film - it's not the really good creepy horror film that is good for a late night viewing but it's fun to watch.5/10

Prichards12345 The Monster Maker is a PRC movie that is certainly better than most of their other efforts in the horror genre. For once it doesn't look too cheap, has a convincing "monster" make-up job and decent performances to boot.The plot concerns the barking mad Igor Markoff (J. Carrol Naish), a research scientist who falls for the daughter of famous concert pianist Anthony Lawrence(Ralph Morgan) Seeing a strong resemblance to his late wife in her, he begins to shower her with unwanted attentions. A specialist in Acromegaly, he later injects Lawerence with the disease to force her to his will.The film is slightly over-talky but never boring; heavily criticised upon it's original release for excessive nastiness (Morgan's disfigured appearance is certainly effective even today) time has been quite kind to it. There's a largely redundant sub-plot involving a gorilla (why does every mad scientist have one?)and much of the story appears derived from The Raven and Mad Love. Naish is suitably seedy in the title role and there's a good performance from Tala Birell as his assistant Maxine. The movie lacks atmosphere but the director keeps things ticking over nicely.The Monster Maker is certainly worth a look.