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Post by godzillamaster66 on Mar 18, 2006 12:08:18 GMT -8
I saw this on AMC this morning and I thought it was pretty neat. I liked the end when the wolfman and Frankenstein's monster fight (the same music was used in the trailer for "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra," a spoof of B-Movies {sort of like scary movie}) The special effects were very good for the time, and the ending was especially good. I plan on buying it on DVD or tape sometime soon.
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Post by amphiboid on Mar 18, 2006 18:39:11 GMT -8
Yes, this movie also had a very slick, stylish, action film-type opening that I think influenced basically all action horror films that followed. Great opening.
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Post by RedKing on Mar 20, 2006 11:53:56 GMT -8
This is actually one of my favorite Universal films and I think a very underappreciated film that gets an undeserved bad rap. The art direction, music and everything else about the film is top notch as always at universal. Chaney Jr is always great as Larry Talbot and the WolfMan and Lugosi was not bad as the Monster at all. It's not his fault that his performance was sabotaged by the studio when they cut out all of his dialog.
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Post by Torgaman on Mar 20, 2006 12:24:16 GMT -8
I'm still waiting for MR CLEAN MEETS SPIC AND SPAN.
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Post by godzillamaster66 on Mar 20, 2006 16:16:55 GMT -8
Hopefully, if they make it, it will be better than Mr. Clean vs. Oxi-Clean.
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Post by Gwangi on Mar 20, 2006 16:20:08 GMT -8
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this was probably Universal last great film from their 1930-40s horror / monster cycle. (Excluding A&C Meet Frankenstein).
The transformation of Lon Chaney is even better here than in "The Wolf Man" with Chaney himself giving quite an enduring performance. And Lugosi does get a bad rap, but like it was said, it wasn't his fault that several scenes were cut, plus, I believe the monster was also suppose to be blind (I am not too sure about this myself), thus the reason why he walks so stiffly (which actually has been imitated so many times when people do Frankenstein). And Ilona Massey, with her Eastern European accent, gives her part a little more credibility when playing a Frankenstein family member.
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Post by Lunkhead on Apr 15, 2006 19:10:04 GMT -8
One of my favorite Universals too. It has so much going for it and surely is one of the most fun. This film will live eternally! Faro-La Faro-Li... "STOP IT! STOP THAT SINGING!! I don't want to live eternally!!!Why did you say that to me?!?!?" |
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Post by Giganfan on Apr 16, 2006 15:06:27 GMT -8
I think it's ironic that even though the role of the Frankenstein monster put a curse on the rest of Lugosi's career, ultimately he got the last laugh. His stiff-legged, hulking thing with arms out-stretched has been the image that everyone associates as the monster for a long time.
Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man is my personal favorite out of all of the Universal monster films, along with Dracula and Creature From The Black Lagoon. It's also the first Universal horror film that I ever saw (though I may be wrong about this, it's hard to remember), so it has enormous sentimental appeal to me. Seeing two great monsters battle it out at the end after such a great movie was all I needed back then. The thing that really got me into these movies, I think, was the Ian Thorn books. Anyone remember those? I used to check them out of my public library all the time.
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