This is readily apparent from the Terry Gilliam-esque animations that accompany the opening credits. Here a fat nerdy caretaker drinks a toxic liquid and transforms into a homicidal maniac. In case you're wondering, his potential victims inhabit a nudist colony. I'm not saying this is a classic, but if Beast is exactly what you'd expect from a film of this type, Monster proves quite a bit more. Here, luckily, it's more the opposite.
Beast is absolutely gorgeous, with the color photography looking razor-sharp and quite splendid.
The problem is that the soundtrack is conspicuously damaged, with loud levels of hiss and static fairly omnipresent. Meanwhile, Monster , if anything, looks even better, while lacking the severe audio problems attending the first film. As mentioned earlier, there are enormous helpings of extras here. Produced anywhere from the 1920s-60s, these run between roughly three and fifteen minutes in length. At least two of the shorts, in conjunction with Beast , feature men in really bad gorilla suits.