House of Dracula
Country - USA
Year - 1945
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Stars: Lon Chaney Jr.(Lawrence Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man), John Carradine (Count Dracula), Martha O'Driscoll (Miliza Morrelle), Lionel Atwill (Police Inspector Holtz), Onslow Stevens (Dr. Franz Edlemann), Jane Adams (Nina), Ludwig Stossel (Siegfried), Glenn Strange (The Frankenstein Monster), Skelton Knaggs (Steinmuhl), Boris Karloff, (Frankenstein Monster in Dream Sequence -recycled footage
Genre: Vampire
House of Dracula
Now this is an odd premise! Count Dracula and the Wolfman come to visit Dr Edleman, a man renowned for treating weird diseases, in order to find cures for their respective diseases of vampirism and lycanthropy. With his beautiful assistants Miliza and Nina (one of the few cinematic hunchbacked assistants without facial disfigurement), and a bunch of brain dead numpties from the nearby town, And then along pops Frankenstein's Monster for good measure!
It's an odd film with a confused plot really. John Carradine (a horror great) makes for a strange Count Dracula - tall with grey hair and a 'tache. His intention was to resemble the Dracula from Bram Stoker's original novel but he doesn't bring any oomph to the role and plays a rather flat, not terribly frightening Count. The film is really just a vehicle to get Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein's monster all in the same film - tho never all together and in really tenuous circumstances!! It's not a great film but it's a kind of Sunday afternoon rubbishy romp. So if you're a fan of that sort of thing...
Reviewer - @helen_of_horror
Movie Spoiler - If you want to know the ending of the film.
