House of Dracula

#25 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. The appeal of House of Frankenstein was one part casting and another part happy accident. Boris Karloff simply made the film, and the subplot about the hunchback Daniels' unrequited love was solid. House of Dracula has neither of those things. Oh, it still has a…

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House of Frankenstein

#16 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. What if Igor was the main character and he was sympathetic? That's almost what Erle C. Kenton's House of Frankenstein tries to do, and if that had ended up the focus, even with all of the monster resurrections happening around him, I think something really…

The Ghost of Frankenstein

#27 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. It seems as though it is the Frankenstein franchise that has run out of steam first (The Mummy never got going, to be honest). Very little of this movie makes any sense. Characters don't seem to have any real motive to do anything they do.…