Monster That Everybody Created - Part 1

Six years before the Milpitas Monster debuted in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monster that Everybody Created was shown to a large group of amateur film enthusiasts at Fremont High School (Sunnyvale, CA) in 1970. Other high schoolers managed to put poorly dubbed audio tracks with their 8mm films, but we strove for dead-locked lip sync in our mini-productions.

Detective John Earshy, (Mark Pierceall, Sunnyvale High) is under pressure to solve a group of murders which occured at the Sunnyvale (CA) Dump. Ecologists, Dr. Edward Rolland (Doug Brusig, Peterson High), tries to convince Earshy that the culptrit is a smog monster created from waist debree, that our oil companies and factories must be shut down to save the planet.

Other actors included Robin Frank, Sunnyvale High (Captain Neam), Mark Prisbrowsky, Sunnyvale High (police officer) and Linda Soper, Peterson High (Laura).

The story was written by Doug Brusig and directed by Mike Carroll Jr. (Peterson High) Special thanks goes to Peterson High School drama teacher and our film consultant, Ronald C. Graves.

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[AnotherAmateur]

Milpitas Monster was first screened in 1976. This came four years later and may have been a simple high school copy cat film. MM was distributed nationally (and now internationally) as a major production. Wonder how many views you'd get if you dropped mention of MM in your misinformed description?

[Carrollsville]

1976 sounds about right for MM, and the correction has been noted under the description. The Monster That Everybody Created was in the finals with four other films. Over 500 amateur film makers from the Bay Area attended this event and saw Monster, which could have included members from the Milpitas High School film department. How likely would two films be produced in the Bay Area within a six-year period involving a smog monster at the garbage dump?

[RickyRiddy2]

this doesnt exactly exist at the IMDB so its a non theatrical independent film... could you not have milpitas monster in the search thing so i dont see it when i try to find it...

[MattieCooper]

Wow! Totally fascinating!