GamerTab That was an excellent one.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

richardskranium I cannot claim to know much of anything about the director,actors,or genre. However,I can say that I loved this film.A film is supposed to entertain-and that is exactly what this film does.It truly must be seen,words cannot do it justice.There are so many things about this film that are laugh-out-loud funny I don't know where to begin.This is considered a"B" movie but it's really not badly made. The direction was good,the movie moved along.The acting was decent.The camera-work-cinematography was solid.The lighting was fine for about half the film. The dialog is inane and usually unintentionally funny..It is often way- too- much ! Dracula's appearance and voice was great.Frankenstein is also interesting. This film is a lot of fun to watch,very amusing on so many levels. If you have an honest sense of humor this film cannot miss for you.

Leofwine_draca Al Adamson's cheapo monster-bash is an obvious attempt to emulate the look and feel of the '40s Universal horror films, except with added '70s fashions and bad hairdos. Along with the rest of Adamson's output, it has long been regarded as a diabolically bad movie, but I was pleasantly surprised to find it both fast-paced and enjoyable, although this might be because the UK version under the title of REVENGE OF Dracula has had half an hour's footage excised from it, resulting in a scant sixty-minute running time.Technically, this film is appalling, with rubbishy editing and dodgy camera angles all around. Adamson didn't seem to have much of a clue when it came to style or quality within a film, instead preferring to concentrate on making a quick buck. The nonsensical story involves a ghastly amusement attraction at a pier which is being used as a cover by the mad Dr. Frankenstein. Said mad doctor is played by character actor J. Carrol Naish right at the end of his career, and it's pretty sad to see this prolific actor reduced to a shouty, wheelchair-bound performance. Worse still, however, is Frankenstein's servant, a zombie axe murder played by Lon Chaney Jr., also at the end of his career and making his final performance in a film. I can't describe how sad it is to see Chaney in this film; he looks huge, bloated and awful, with years of alcoholism and illness taking their toll, and his voice gone through cancer. His acting is predictably bad and it's impossible to reconcile the actor from his appearance here with his urbane turns in such films as SON OF Dracula some thirty years previously.Also lurking about is a hilariously awful Dracula, looking much like the one we saw in the grindhouse movie GUESS WHAT HAPPENED TO COUNT Dracula? Complete with pasty make-up job and bad accent, this Dracula is a hoot, although not as funny as Frankenstein's Monster, here a lumpy-faced lumbering maniac who cracks me up every time he's on screen. Adamson cast non-actors in these roles, so all of the performances are pretty diabolical.Also thrown into the mix is a showgirl, played by Adamson's wife and regular lead, Regina Carrol. Complete with massive blonde hair and overdone makeup, Carrol makes for an unlikable heroine, fake and unbelievable, and not very attractive. It comes as no surprise that she's reduced to a series of tight-fitting, low-cut garments as the story progresses. Also on hand are wooden action man Anthony Eisley (LIGHTNING BOLT) as the hero; Greydon Clark, later to become a director in his own right; and a brief appearance from Angelo Rossitto (SCARED TO DEATH), the dwarf actor whose career spanned about seven decades of cinema. For most of the running time, you'll be watching incredulously at how bad this film is, but I have to admit that I really enjoyed the ending scenes. They're as cheesy, overblown and downright hilarious as they come. Adamson throws some brief nudity and severed heads into the mix in a blatant attempt to keep audiences watching, and surprisingly enough, it works. While Dracula VS. FRANKENSTEIN is a bad film, it also happens to be a very enjoyable one at that.

dworldeater Al Adamson's Dracula Vs. Frankenstein is a monster mash that is more horrible than horror. However, this shoddily made piece of sholock is amusing and memorable. Dracula Vs. Frankenstein is a real bad and cheap exploitation film, but it still is fun and delivers the goods for some extremely campy entertainment. J. Carrol Naish and Lon Cheney Jr. are actually good in this as Dr. Frankenstein and his henchman. This is also their final appearances in film. Zandor Vorkov is hilarious as Count Dracula and brings an ultra cheesy and awesomely bad performance that must be seen to believe. He certainly camps it up big time and is hilarious to watch. The rest of the cast is real bad and very funny as well. This cult classic combines (then contemporary) hippie and biker culture and still tries to sell this as a Gothic horror picture. Dracula AD this is not, or a good a cohesive film it isn't either. Al Adamson was a terrible film maker and like the rest of the films of his I have seen, they are of similar quality. However, this garbage does have an appeal. It has a modern remastered DVD and is more memorable and entertaining than a whole lot of stuff.

poe426 Thanks to "Uncle Forry," I was one of those kids who had lined up to see Dracula VS. FRANKENSTEIN when it first saw theatrical release: the co-stars of this one had turned up on the cover of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND (which had featured an article on the movie without advising those of us who cared about such things that it might be something less than entertaining- on any level). Mr. Ackerman acquited himself well enough, all things considered, but his appearance proved all too brief. And now he's gone. There won't be any more cameos; no more FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND. It was Forrest J. Ackerman who helped me get a script I'd written into the hands of filmmaker George A. Romero. (The letter "Uncle Forry" sent me has apparently been lost in the three-decade shuffle since, but it was one of my most prized possessions for years.) I found out that FJA was among the Missing when I happened upon the final minute or so of a year-end Farewell to the Lost on Turner Classic Movies. He Left on December 4th, and I hadn't heard word one about it until I stumbled across that TCM tribute. Ackerman's love of all things Fantastic brought us together (he as editor, myself as reader and fan) and, although I did write back to him and thank him for his help in getting my script to Romero... it just doesn't seem like thanks enough. Not now. (I dedicated THE NIGHT RIDERS, my xlibris book, in part, to FJA.) There weren't a whole lot of things a kid could count on when I was growing up, but there was- and always will be, for as long as life endures- the memories I have of a black and white magazine whose editor shared my love of the Fantastic; an editor who always seemed to me to be a kid at heart. With love, this one's for Forrest J. Ackerman.