Lon Chaney Jr, Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles

On a moonlit night, graverobbers unwittingly unearth the tomb of Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man, who then begins a desperate search for a cure for his "condition." The search eventually leads him to a cli...( read more  read more... )mactic confrontation with, of all creatures, Frankenstein's monster. Sequel to both THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE WOLF MAN, followed next by HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 12 min.

Directed by: Roy William Neill

Release Date: March 5, 1943

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  • March 25, 2008
    Fairly mediocre. still, the atmosphere of universal pictures horror classics and two of its greatest monsters face-to-face is what saves it. good to see Lugosi playing the monster he once refused to incarnate.
  • August 12, 2007
    A year after The Wolf Man became a huge success, Lon Chaney Jr played the part of Frankenstein in the latest sequel "Ghost of Frankenstein". He was excellent in the role, and from that you can clearly see where the inspiration came from to combine the two strands and have these c...( read more)haracters meet each other. Incidentally, Chaney also played a vampire later that year in "Son of Dracula", even though he was completely unsuited to the part, but that makes him the only actor to play all three of Universal's main monsters. Oh, and he also played the Mummy in "The Mummy's Tomb".

    Anyway, I digress ... here we have Curt Siodmak, writer of The Wolf Man, returning again as screenwriter. All of the ingredients are there for a great sequel. It opens in Larry Talbot's tomb, with two graverobbers breaking in and disturbing his resting place. The moonlight comes through the window and falls on Larry's corpse, waking him from his slumber as the wolf man. He then gets taken to a hospital where he is deemed insane due to his insistence that he's a werewolf, but promptly escapes in search of the gypsy woman from the original film. She takes him to Frankenstein's town in search of his scientific expertise, and there he encounters Frankenstein's monster encased in ice ... my memory is a little hazy, but wasn't he consumed in fire at the end of the last movie? Ah, well.

    It should really have been called "The Wolf Man Meets Frankenstein", because Frankenstein here is only a fairly minor character in the story. Lon Chaney Jr delivers another great performance, at least as good as that in the first film if not better. Of course, he does only have to have one mood to convey here -- desperation. Bela Lugosi, much as I love him, is a terrible Frankenstein. He's the wrong size and shape, and he clearly has no respect for the role. Thank god he doesn't appear for that long. Although having said that, it does kind of make sense that he plays the monster, as the brain of his Igor character was placed in Frankenstein's head at the end of the previous movie. Not that they have much continuity other than that.

    The script certainly has it's moments, and the atmosphere of the two worlds of the Wolf Man and Frankenstein blend together fairly well, but on the whole this film just doesn't have enough interesting ideas and far too many dull moments. The set pieces are decent enough, but certainly not as striking as those in the earlier Frankenstein movies. Also, there's a fair bit of decidedly wooden acting from certain cast members, but that's to be expected from most of Universal's horror films.

    This sequel is entertaining enough, but it's not half as good as it could have been. It's worth watching if you liked the original.
  • December 12, 2006
    The first (and still one of the best) monster vs. monster film, with good work from Chaney and Lugosi and a good, cheesy story. A fun film for fans of old horror movies.
  • November 12, 2006
    Silly an generally bad, but the atmosphere is great.
  • January 12, 2008
    Fantastic!
  • November 1, 2009
    not into such old movies
  • October 31, 2009
    The scariest thing in this movie is the weird Octoberfest guy singing for no reason half way thru the film, what's with that?, it was like the wolfman had wondered onto the set of a musical. That silliness aside this is a pretty good monster flick, although I would have prefered ...( read more)Karloff as Big Frank(sorry Bela).
  • October 1, 2009
    Who cane ver forget the clmatic battle sequence between teh wolfman and frankenstein as the damn collapses and the flood waters rush in! Pulse pounding excitement!
  • September 4, 2009
    This is a craftily made and humorous movie with a great story line and wonderful execution. The plot is simple the Wolfman comes back to life and so does Frankenstein. The good thing about this film is the anticipation of the meeting between the two monsters, just like the antici...( read more)pation one feels when waiting for two sports teams to play.
  • March 13, 2009
    Another fun movie I used to watch in my youth on the weekends late at night on the old creature features or svengouli shows. Ah memories.

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