House of Frankenstein (1944)

HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN  (1944)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Erle C. Kenton
    Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, 
    J. Carroll Naish, Elena Verdugo, Lionel Atwill,
    Glenn Strange, George Zucco, Sig Rumann
An entertaining late entry in the classic Universal horror cycle, with Karloff as a vengeful scientist, Carradine as Count Dracula, Chaney as the Wolf Man, Strange as the Frankenstein Monster and Naish as the hunchback who does Karloff's bidding. Dracula's disposed of before the Wolf Man and the Monster even appear, and poor Larry Talbot (Chaney) gets impatient waiting for Boris to take time off from the Monster to cure his lycanthropy and settles for a silver bullet from a gypsy dancing girl played by Elena Verdugo. Then the hunchback gets fed up, because he loves the gypsy girl, too, and wants his brain transplanted into Talbot's body, but Boris is in no hurry to do that, either. So the hunchback tries to strangle Boris, but the Monster intervenes and throws the hunchback out the window, and then the Monster drags Boris off into the woods where they're chased by the usual mob of angry villagers armed with torches and pitchforks, and they're heading straight for the quicksand, but you know what? I bet the writers of the next sequel will figure out a way to bring them all back. That'd be my guess, anyway.