House of Frankenstein
1944  NR  HORROR  1h 11min
CAST— Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish
MUSIC— Hans J. Salter, Paul Dessau  DIRECTOR— Erle C. Kenton

     And they get even sillier… Boris Karloff stars in this barely there mix-up of Universal Monsters. This time Karloff isn’t the misunderstood monster, he’s the mad doctor, inspired by the Doctors Frankenstein but convinced that he can succeed where they had failed. He and a murderous hunchback escape from prison, resurrect a skinny Dracula, save a gypsy girl, defrost the Wolf Man and Frankenstein’s monster and attempt to switch brains with various monsters. All within 71 minutes, one might add. Never convincing for a moment. Or interesting, for that matter. It can still be a hoot, if only for those “so bad they’re good” moments. Contains an ending so abrupt it’s as if they ran out of film. Pointless.
OUR RATING— * ½
PRECEDED BY— Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Wolf Man (1941), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
FOLLOWED BY— House of Dracula (1945)