House of Frankenstein (1944)
Country: US
Technical: bw 71m
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jnr, George Zucco
Synopsis:
A gypsy travelling showman named Lampini (!) journeys to Visaria, site of the castle destroyed at the end of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, where another mad doctor is putting yet another brain inside the skull of Frankenstein's monster.
Review:
At this point of the Universal cycle the films start to become unintentionally droll: Dracula is despatched within the first two reels, there is a hunchback who plays sentimental slavonic airs on his violin, and lines and routines from earlier films are churned out with a note of camp confirmed by Zucco's turn as Lampini. Despite token attempts to top and tail the films so that they appear to follow one another, there are astonishing lapses in continuity, namely a monster that can see again and some confusion over the location of Visaria: a local is able to gesture at the ruins of a castle on a hill 152km away. The monster make-up is by now poor indeed, and the actor under it does not rate a credit.
Country: US
Technical: bw 71m
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jnr, George Zucco
Synopsis:
A gypsy travelling showman named Lampini (!) journeys to Visaria, site of the castle destroyed at the end of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, where another mad doctor is putting yet another brain inside the skull of Frankenstein's monster.
Review:
At this point of the Universal cycle the films start to become unintentionally droll: Dracula is despatched within the first two reels, there is a hunchback who plays sentimental slavonic airs on his violin, and lines and routines from earlier films are churned out with a note of camp confirmed by Zucco's turn as Lampini. Despite token attempts to top and tail the films so that they appear to follow one another, there are astonishing lapses in continuity, namely a monster that can see again and some confusion over the location of Visaria: a local is able to gesture at the ruins of a castle on a hill 152km away. The monster make-up is by now poor indeed, and the actor under it does not rate a credit.
Country: US
Technical: bw 71m
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jnr, George Zucco
Synopsis:
A gypsy travelling showman named Lampini (!) journeys to Visaria, site of the castle destroyed at the end of Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, where another mad doctor is putting yet another brain inside the skull of Frankenstein's monster.
Review:
At this point of the Universal cycle the films start to become unintentionally droll: Dracula is despatched within the first two reels, there is a hunchback who plays sentimental slavonic airs on his violin, and lines and routines from earlier films are churned out with a note of camp confirmed by Zucco's turn as Lampini. Despite token attempts to top and tail the films so that they appear to follow one another, there are astonishing lapses in continuity, namely a monster that can see again and some confusion over the location of Visaria: a local is able to gesture at the ruins of a castle on a hill 152km away. The monster make-up is by now poor indeed, and the actor under it does not rate a credit.