Review of House of Dracula (1945) by Leonard D — 09 Nov 2014

House of Frankenstein was two movies smashed together...a random pointless Dracula story, followed by a bad sequel to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man"...this time it at least has only one plot line, concerning all these monsters ending up at a Mad Doctor's castle for his help.

Well Dracula and the Wolf Man come...the Monster just happens to be buried underneath for some odd reason. Despite the more consistent plot and a bit more Dracula...it still pretty much sucks. You want Lugosi, and Caradine, while not really terrible.

..is just no Lugosi. The pretty lady hunchback is about the only interesting twist this film has. Mostly it is more of the same from the previous Universal Monster Mish Mash. It was sort of the closure of the original run of the Universal Monsters.

Many would return in the Abbott & Costello comedies, but this was their last true horror film.