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Posted 12 October 2019 - 07:32 AM

House of Frankenstein
1944 Black and White

The movie starts out in the depth of a prison where a mad doctor was being housed for stealing a corpse. Having served 15 years already with a hunchback companion, the doctor was thinking about putting a mans brain into a dog (hope he was not considering a poodle or bull-dog). When a storm ravages the prison they escape and happen upon a traveling horror show. After killing the wagons driver and showman, they set out upon the road.
During their first stop they free Dracula who kills the first rival of the mad doctor and tries to make off with another mans wife. The mad doctor and hunchback then ditch Dracula' coffin during a chase, and Dracula ended up needing Sunscreen SPF 20,000 (sorry dude- the store was sold out).
Coming upon a group of Gypsies, a dancing girl joins the group as they make their way to Frankensteins castle where they discover the wolf man and the monster trapped in ice. They free the pair. The hunchback becomes jealous of the dancers affection for the wolf man and blames Frank (the monster) and begins whipping him while he is strapped to a table (was not expecting an early monster version of Bondage and S&M). The dancer ends up shooting the wolf man and the two die in each others arms. Frank breaks loose as the hunchback tries to kill the doctor, with Frank tossing Hunch out a window for 5d6 points of "splat" (I guess that Frank was not to happy over his first S&M lesson). Frank grabs the doctor and is driven into the swamp by a mob and takes a non-helpful swimming lesson in quicksand.

This movie holds a fast moving plot as a monster tragedy. As an early film it does not rely upon computer graphics for it's special effects. Fairly straight forward for and old film, just right as Halloween approaches.





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