House of Frankenstein

Considering Dracula dies in the first half hour and the Wolf-man and Frankenstein's monster don't come in until the last half of the movie, you can hardly say this is about monsters. The screen time of the monsters is so minimal, leaving a "mad" but in no way crazy scientist and his hunch back sidekick to pick up the slack, it just leaves me feeling uninterested and more or less "blah".

Karloff is cool, as is Chaney as the Wolfman, but neither can save this script. It feels like such an empty film. There are some fun moments, but they add up to very little, and the first half with Dracula just seems like pointless padding. It's still passably entertaining at times, but feels like a total waste of talent.

Karloff saves the picture in this more episodic effort from Universal. Carradine is an especially sloppy Dracula, but that's more or less the script's fault. Everyone else is given very little to do but the story moves along none the less.

Things really start moving once Dracula's out of the way!

This time three monsters in one movie. Plus mad scientist, a hunchback and a beautiful gipsy girl. But don't start partying too early, because not once they are in one scene together. Once again it proves, that noone else could BE a Dracula, but Lugosi. And that Wolfman is the deepest character of all universal monsters. Interesting love triangle and very good acting of J. Carrol Naish (Hunchback), makes this one better then the most previous efforts to revive monsters.

Naming it after Frankenstein is especially desperate since the monster is barely in it (same for the actual building he was created in!) and he has zero character whatsoever in this. Glen Strange is hired to be a big savage brute and brings nothing else to the character. No sympathy, no pathos, just big lug knocking stuff over.

Surprisingly dull for a movie with so many great monsters.

Those hoping to watch 3 famous monsters clash will be sorely disappointed: they don't even interact! The script is structured in such a way that 1 monster's gone before the next 1 wakes up. While it's no doubt difficult to come up w/ a plot for all 3 to plausibly interact, this very implausible script has no excuse esp w/ a mad scientist who revives monsters with no thought to his own safety. The actors are fine except for Carradine who's miscast as Dracula - good looks entirely devoid of menace

Karloff elevates the production considerably.

It tries to be chilling and spooky but fails. The whole time I kept wondering why Boris Karloff wasn't the Monster, and why not have the vastly superior Bela Lugosi star as Dracula? The whole nonsense is hokey, all of the creatures are way too easily dispatched. But at least they all get their 5 minutes right? Lon Chaney Jr. was always good as the Wolf Man and replaced better actors (Karloff & Lugosi) in their famous roles (The Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, and Dracula).

Fun (though not too scary) oldie monster movie, chock full of stars of the genre.

Possibly the most contrived movie ever made, but boy do I love these Universal horrors

61.000

The best of Universal's latter-day monster programmers benefits from juicy performances by Karloff and Naish, top-notch production design, and a lack of pretension; this is nothing serious or sententious -- just a whole lotta monsters clomping around the old neighborhood, having fun.

A Mansão/Casa de Frankenstein estreva há 75 anos nos EUA. Mais uma sequência caça níqueis mucho loca dos monstros da Universal, aqui é uma mistura de O Corcunda de Notre Dame, com O Lobisomens, Frankenstein e Drácula, tudo espremido em pouco mais de uma hora de filme. Box London Films Ataúde Macabro.

Needed more Boris Karloff.

This is one hell of a goony monster extravaganza. It's a lot of fun, even though it stops making any sense about half way through. Karloff and Naish are great, as is Carradine, but he departs way too soon. Chaney's depressed Wolf man act is starting to become a little much by this point.

Charming. But the director could've focused more on the hunchback's confined passion, and less on the external suspense (a naive wish, but a wish).

I appreciate what a spectacular mess they made of this super villain adventure!