Baby Head?

He looks like one of the Appalachian applehead dolls from the 1800's. Doll heads would be carved out of apples, when they would dry up, the skin would get all wrinkly and puffy looking just like the Monster.

And I loved how the new actor playing the monster at the end had a mullet!


http://www.dryit.com/applehead.html

APPLE HEAD DOLLS


from January 1986 "Drying Times"
Here is an old fashioned craft that you can share with your children. Applehead dolls have long been a part of our American heritage. It is believed that the Seneca Indians were the first to make dolls from apples. The craft was later adopted by the mountain folk of Appalachia. Today, applehead dolls remain a popular folk art of the Appalachian region and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. These dolls are often sold for as much as $25-$30.

However they did it, it was an improvement from Jack Pierce in the 1930s and 40s with Karloff and Glenn Strange