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Ski Instructor | Monster
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Roger Corman and Gene Corman partly chose their filming location in the Black Hills because they were encouraged to come by the Chamber of Commerce in South Dakota. The Chamber of Commerce offered financial incentives in order to ensure that this, and future Corman films, would be shot in their state.
Immediately following production of this film, Ski Troop Attack (1960) was filmed on the same location in the South Dakota Black Hills. Both films featured much of the same cast and crew.
Some scenes required the actors to fire guns inside the eponymous cave (which was actually an abandoned mine). The reverberations from the gunshots made part of the mine's ceiling collapse. None of the cast or crew were injured, but they were greatly unnerved by the situation.
The cave in the film was actually an abandoned mine in Deadwood, South Dakota.
According to Chris Robinson, the actor who portrayed the monster, he added aluminum stripping to a plywood base, then covered the frame with chicken wire before wrapping it in sheets and muslin in order to create the monster's skeletal base. He then soaked the frame in vinyl paint in order to waterproof the design, since it had to be used in the snow. The creature's head was fashioned out of quarter-inch aluminum wire, which was then encased in steel wire and wrapped in muslin. The creature's fangs and teeth were also constructed with aluminum wire. Robinson then placed putty and patches of crepe hair onto the design before adding spun glass in order to give it a cobwebby appearance.
"Marty Jones: I saw pieces of an egg in the mine, where it got Natalie. Now that could have been buried there for millions of years until the men working on the mine found it. Alexander Ward: I don't care what it is. I don't care if it chews up the whole state. I care if it came from Mars or happened by spontaneous combustion. We're going to Canada with a load of gold, so forget it!"
"Barman: Have you seen Natalie? Alexander Ward: Who? Barman: The dark-haired girl that serves drinks here. Alexander Ward: No. Gypsy Boulet: I used to be a dark-haired girl. But I'm still serving."
