Dracula vs Frankenstein (review) by JDThe fear will fully energize the molecular structure of your blood!- -Count Dracula. You would have expected that Universal would have released a movie called Dracula vs Frankenstein, since they paired the famous monsters on more than one occasion. As though to establish some cosmic balance for the oversight, the early 1. They suck more than a trio of undead Transylvanian brides. The definitive Dracula vs Frankenstein is Al Adamson's drive- in shlockfest, which manages to be the last horror film for aging veterans J. Carroll Naish and Lon Chaney, Jr., and features a cameo by Famous Monsters of Filmland publisher Forrest J. Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) - Al Adamson on AllMovie - A slapdash epic of bad filmmaking geared. Released to video under the title The Revenge of Dracula, this horror spoof finds the infamous Count Dracula joining up with Dr. Frankenstein in order to find a way. The latest critic and user reviews, photos and cast info for Dracula vs. Somehow, in this insanely plotted story, Dracula teams up with Dr. The infamous Monster returns from the grave and beautiful hippie girls get murdered. At Oakmoor Cemetery, the vampire Dracula exhumes the remains of the Frankenstein Monster. A caretaker stumbles upon them and Dracula bites him upon the. Ackerman. It's a truly terrible movie, one tier above the Ed Woodoeuvre, and yet, peculiarly enjoyable. Adamson originally hired aging veterans Chaney and Naish for a very different exploitation flick, one dealing with hippies and bikers. Dracula vs Frankenstein: Books to Gothically Horrify. This is Dracula vs Frankenstein books. Indeed, of the two, Dr. Frankenstein himself is arguably more.Most of the filming was complete before they realized it wasn't working, and so they revised the script to include Dracula and Frankenstein, and took a lot of new footage, much of it more than a year after the initial shoot. The resulting movie plays about as coherently as one might expect. Like Frankenstein's Monster, the film is choppily stitched- together and poorly lit. A mad scientist. Frankenstein- - and his deranged, puppy- loving assistant, Groton, run sinister experiments out of the House of Horrors on an old- time California amusement pier. A Vegas singer comes in search of her missing sister, one of the hippies abducted for experimentation purposes. She teams up with some her sister's friends, one of whom is on the run from Nazi- apparel- wearing bikers leftover from the original movie premise. The bikers sporadically appear and disappear, no longer connected meaningfully to the plot. Meanwhile, Count Dracula turns up because he has located the body of Frankenstein's Monster and he requires Dr. The titular monsters finally have two brief confrontations at the end, reshot with different (and more effective) make- up for the Count and a different actor as the Monster. This footage comes from a third shoot, prompted by the filmmakers' realization that a movie entitled Dracula vs Frankenstein should feature, at some point, an actual fight between Dracula and Frankenstein. It's almost impossible to find one . From a historic/fannish standpoint, it's the utter waste of Lon Chaney in his last role. He also plays with a puppy, recalling rather inappropriately his first screen triumph in Of Mice and Men. Given Chaney's outspoken criticism, at the end of his life, of current trends in cheap, exploitative horror, his appearance here is quite sad. On a less depressing note, Dracula's make- up, when seen in the light of day before his dissolution at sunrise, makes him look like a reject member of Kiss, while his actual dissolution features the closest thing to decent effects and make- up in the entire film. Otherwise, the effects are old- time serial bad. The monsters have been made up to recall Universal's versions, though not nearly so much as the poster suggests. Frankenstein's creation looks like a cross between Boris Karloff and a slab of raw meat. Dracula recalls the second runner- up in the costume competition at last year's Halloween party. His voice is dubbed with reverb, so he sounds as ridiculous as he looks. What would you consider the better written book: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or Bram Stoker's Dracula? Dracula vs Frankenstein er en amerikansk film fra 1971 som blant annet springer ut. Frankenstein» og Zandor. His Dracula ring shoots cartoon lightning, a gimmick stolen from Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. The plot best recalls something a demented child would have acted out with the contemporaneous Aurora Monster Scenes models. You could even pull of Frankenstein's snap- together arms, just as Dracula does in the film. Acting is all over the place, and mostly bad. Others embarrass themselves, in that way that has audiences asking, . Chaney's character is mute and Naish's is in a wheelchair, almost certainly due to the veteran actors' failing health. While any early- 7. Richard O'Brien, a huge fan of b- movie horror, who was writing The Rocky Horror Show while this made the rounds, wasn't directly influenced. Scott, in particular, recalls Dure/Frankenstein. Dracula vs Frankenstein received mad play at the drive- ins and, for the next decade, on late- night television. Shoddy script, poor production values, and dubious acting notwithstanding, it's a piece of horror history. The dialogue, meanwhile, provides many laughs. It's one of those films that is bad enough to be- - sporadically- - entertaining. Director: Al Adamson. Writers: William Pugsley, Samuel M. Sherman, Al Adamson. J. Frankenstein. Lon Chaney, Jr. Beaumont. 2Its European- made counterpart doesn't fare so well. In this Spanish/German/Italian film, a detective's investigation turns up a plot by aliens to revive and duplicate earth's most famous monsters in order to conquer the planet. As in Adamson's film, the villains work out of an entertainment venue: a circus sideshow, in this case. Originally released as Los Monstruos del Terror and under various titles in translation, it eventually came to be another Dracula vs Frankenstein, perhaps in order to cash in on the cult success of Adamson's movie. Alas, the vampire in this film isn't Count Dracula, and he doesn't fight Frankenstein's Monster, who does, however, duke it out with star werewolf, Waldemar Daninsky. Instead of Naish and Chaney, this one features Michael Rennie. Forget The Day the Earth Stood Still, however. This, surely, is the film that made the actor ill. The plot recalls both Plan 9 From Outer Space and Monster Zero. It's better made than the former, less well- made than the latter, and not nearly as much fun as either. In addition to the familiar horror movie monsters, the film mentions the golem and implies the presence of flying saucers, but budget limitations mean that neither appears in the film. Dracula's make- up is fairly restrained, and his early attack on a victim has been well- framed. The werewolf make- up is pretty good; the same actor played the same character in a handful of European films. The Mummy, predictably, looks like an accident victim. Most of the acting is about on par with the local horror hosts who once peddled films like this one on late- night TV. Los Monstruos del Terror won the 1. Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Atrocious Editing, or would have, if such an award had existed. Its real failing, however, is that it's just not very entertaining. Director: Tulio Demicheli, Hugo Fregonese, and Eberhard Meichsner. Writer: Paul Naschy. Michael Rennie as Dr. Odo Warnoff. Craig Hill as Inspector Tobermann. Karin Dor as Maleva Kerstein. Patty Shepard as Ilsa. Paul Naschy as Waldemar Daninsky the Wolfman. Manuel de Blas as Count Janos de Mialhoff, who might be Dracula. Ferdinando Murolo as El monstruo de Farancksalan / The Frankenstein Monster. Gene Reyes as Tao- Tet the Mummy. The third (as of this writing) Dracula vs Frankenstein fell to Spain, and cult/exploitation director Jes. I have been unable to find this movie, but the scenes I have seen suggest it boasts higher production values than the other Drac/Franks, and a premise closer to Stoker and Shelley. The clips also suggest it isn't significantly better, but perhaps I'll update one day, with a more studied response.
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