# Episode 107 - Making Monsters with Howard Berger and Marshall Julius

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Podcast: [Discover the Horror Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/discover-the-horror-podcast-6975900)
Published: 2025-10-16T00:32:00+00:00
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## Resource

No matter what kind of horror fan you are, there's a good chance that you love the monsters. Whether it's from the Universal Classics, Hammer's colorful reinterpretations, the amazing creatures from Ray Harryhausen, to the no-classic aliens in Star Wars, monsters are a backbone of cinema, and arguably, are the backbone of horror. It's one of the things that we horror fans rally around, and love to discuss: from our favorites, to how some are designed, how they move, and everything in between. Oscar winning special makeup effects artist Howard Berger and author Marshall Julius have a new book out entitled Making Monsters: Inside Stories from the Creators of Hollywood's Most Iconic Creatures , so we asked them to be on our show to talk all about monsters, and those special memories that we all have from the films we love. Films mentioned in this episode: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The 7 th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Abyss (1989), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), The Fly (1986), Frankenstein (1931), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), Gremlins (1984), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Jurassic Park (1993), King Kong (1933), King Kong (1976), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Nosferatu (1922), Phantom of the Opera (1925), Planet of the Apes (1968), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Say Anything (1989), Star Wars (1977), The Thing (1982), The Valley of the Gwangi (1969)

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