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Horroctober 2012

Could Frankenstein have made me like other men?
-Daniel

A crazy little film that continues where Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man left off. Lon Chaney Jr. returns as The Wolf Man while Glenn Strange is the Frankenstein Monster for the first time. They are not alone however, joining them are Dracula (John Carradine), a hunchback (J. Carrol Naish) and tying them all together is a mad scientist played by none other then Boris Karloff.

It almost has the same plot as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, just with added characters. While it's played more for camp fun, there's no denying just how entertaining and ludicrous it all is. Having Karloff as the main character certainly helps hold everything together.

seen on the big screen as a double feature w/ The Mummy, this film was so much fun. it is over-the-top, and ridiculous, but that's the fun. a must-see for classic horror fans!

More fun with Frankenstein's monster, Count Dracula and the Wolf Man, in a story that doesn't quite hang together with all its sub-plots, but is still enjoyable and only lasts just over an hour.

Bit of an odd one this, as Frankenstein (or rather, the creature) is hardly in it, with the focus being more on Karloff's mad scientist, Chaney's Wolf Man and, for some bizarre reason in the first part of the film, Carradine's Dracula. Still, it is a fun romp having all three major Universal monsters in one film and Glenn Strange does a better job of being the creature than Bela Lugosi of Lonj Chaney, Jnr. in the previous films, not looking so comical.

Part of...
Horroctober 2012

Could Frankenstein have made me like other men?
-Daniel

A crazy little film that continues where Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man left off. Lon Chaney Jr. returns as The Wolf Man while Glenn Strange is the Frankenstein Monster for the first time. They are not alone however, joining them are Dracula (John Carradine), a hunchback (J. Carrol Naish) and tying them all together is a mad scientist played by none other then Boris Karloff.

It almost has the same plot as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, just with added characters. While it's played more for camp fun, there's no denying just how entertaining and ludicrous it all is. Having Karloff as the main character certainly helps hold everything together.

seen on the big screen as a double feature w/ The Mummy, this film was so much fun. it is over-the-top, and ridiculous, but that's the fun. a must-see for classic horror fans!

More fun with Frankenstein's monster, Count Dracula and the Wolf Man, in a story that doesn't quite hang together with all its sub-plots, but is still enjoyable and only lasts just over an hour.

Karloff walks away with this film as an escaped convict out for revenge with the monsters essentially shoehorned into the proceedings. The plot is a mess, but at well under 90 minutes it is brisk fun and features two climaxes (one around the half-way mark). Only could have been more bonkers if the Invisible Man and The Mummy appeared.

It's hard to give a disappointing rating to a film featuring Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man, a Hunchback, and a Mad Doctor but... what the hell was this? A Monster Rally with no reason to exist save for shoving every available licensed character into a single dopey movie. At least there were enough cool scenes, killer visuals, old-school menace and Boris Karloff's inimitable screen awesomeness to keep it from being a total washout.

Nice as it is to see the classic monsters united in one film, it's all a bit pointless when you give them so little to do. The plot is haphazardly cobbled together from the various series that lead into this, giving us a veritable string of best bits reenacted. Dracula's resurrection is just ridiculous, and he hardly sticks around at all, the revival of the Wolf Man and the Monster is little better. Karloff does a fine mad scientist and Chaney is again admirable as the tortured werewolf (even if he is really quite emo at this stage), but there's nothing new here from either of them. The Monster's role is a further bastardisation of a fantastic character. It's an enjoyably mad mingling of the Universal stable, but certainly nothing compared to the original films.