And so he came up with a farcical Trog-like monster of his own: The Banana Killer, AKA Schlock, a creature that looks surprisingly like a man in a monkey suit. Specifically, he saw the super-cheesy monster film Trog and realized that he could certainly do better than that. Growing up reading Famous Monsters of Filmland and devouring everything that came to theaters, sometimes going into triple features without knowing anything about the movies, he decided on making a satire of the super-low-budget monster movies that he loved so much. (It’s certainly nothing to sneeze at nearly forty years later.) Still, Landis did the best with the money and the tools that he had at his disposal. The film cost $60,000, which was very low budget even in the 70’s. It’s kind of hard not to admire that kind of gumption.
So he decided to just go out and do it himself. He had a lot of knowledge and experience, but no one was giving him a chance to direct a movie. When he went into production on Schlock in 1971, John Landis had already been in the movie industry for years, having dropped out of high school to pursue his dream.
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