In revisiting the project, the filmmakers added scenes from old monster films to make a new version for release on DVD. According to Newsom, he "hauled out the old scripts, took gags and lines, and did a 25-page script, which condensed things to manageable size. That version of the project was designed as a half-hour short which could be shot in about four weekends (plus the time for effects). On that basis, I asked Wayne Berwick to direct ""Attack of the B-Movie Monster"", since I was 'producing' and had drawn the storyboards for both the live action and effects shots." The film was shot on Super 8 film during 18 days of shooting in the summer of 1984, although for some days they would only shoot for two hours then quit. Over the following months, the animation effects were added and the version was finished by the end of the year. The film was first screened at the now defunct EZTV in West Hollywood.