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...much of the finished script is Vidal's is a matter of clamorous dispute. Vidal apparently saw Caligula as a kind of all-Roman boy gone wrong; the producers made him a monster from the beginning. Vidal says that most of the dialogue is his but complains that "they are playing scenes backward," reversing his meanings...
...House and creates a vicious, accurate parody of one of our more distressing contemporary types. The other is, of course, by that combination of men and machinery that create the Mighty Kong. The expressive range they have provided for him is far wider than that of any previous movie monster. Damned if one doesn't begin to feel for and with him, as his wicked capitalist captors exploit him in order to sell gasoline...
...Little Monsters. For the child who does not get enough blood and ghoul from TV or movies, new Monster Make-Up and Horror Make-Up kits provide the wherewithal for 56 basic variations of Lon Chaney, including leprous or misshapen cheekbones, deformed foreheads, grotesque scars, dagger wounds, drooping, bulging eyeballs, bullet holes-plus a bottle of nontoxic gore. The kits, which sell for less than $20 each, were designed by Veteran Makeup Artist Dick Smith, who turned Linda Blair's head in The Exorcist and aged Marlon Brando in The Godfather. They come with a packet of powdered gelatin...
...human monster in disguise...
...ironic that when a big-talking film mogul comes up with a King Kong remake with 50 times the budget of the original, the only way he can think of to do the monster is as a full-size model clumsily driven by 20-odd motors that keep breaking down. It's only natural then that when that idea flops he resorts to a man in a gorilla suit. At the risk of denigrating the obvious care and hard work that De Laurentiis' technicians have put in, I must say that to have a stunt man cavorting about...