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(Reviewed by Preppy) - Over the top and fun! When
I was in high school (the late 1970s) a local TV station showed this on
Saturday afternoons constantly with "Dracula vs. Frankenstein". As
a teenager I LOVED this! My memories on the plot are kind of vague, but it
went something like this: A a man cursed with becoming a werewolf. He
already has and killed a few people. He hears of a count who can (perhaps)
cure him. The count and his wife come--but they're both VAMPIRES!!!
BTW--Frankenstein has nothing to do with this movie. The American
distributor had promised a Frankenstein film but got this werewolf - vampire
one. Didn't stop them from calling it after Franky!
Sounds ridiculous but it's played so serious it actually is a lot of fun to
watch. The effects (for the 1970s) were good and, surprisingly, this got a
PG rating despite some pretty gory parts. Also this played uncut on TV. The
acting was actually pretty good and I distinctly remember being terrified by
the vampires.
I heard the original Spanish one runs 10 minutes longer and was in 3-D and
stereo sound! We'll never see that here probably and this version seems to
have disappeared completely. Too bad. It was a fun, silly horror film. I
give it an 8. Maybe Anchor Bay will find a version of this to release soon.
(aka Hell's Creatures, The Mark of the Wolfman, The Vampire of Dr. Dracula,
The Werewolf's Mark, The Wolfman of Count Dracula) 8/10 |
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