House of Frankenstein (1944 film)


House of Frankenstein is an American monster horror film starring Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney, Jr., directed by Erle C. Kenton, written by Curt Siodmak, and produced in 1944 by Universal Studios as a sequel to Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man the previous year. The cast includes a mad scientist Karloff, the Wolf Man Chaney, Jr., Dracula John Carradine, a hunchback J. Carrol Naish, and Frankensteins monster Glenn Strange. This monster rally approach would continue in the following film, House of Dracula, as well as the 1948 comedy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

Niemann and Daniel move on to the flooded ruins of Castle Frankenstein, where they find the bodies of the Frankenstein Creature Glenn Strange and Lawrence Talbot the Wolf Man Lon Chaney, Jr. preserved in the frozen waters. Nieman thaws out the two and promises to find Talbot a cure for the curse. However, he is more interested in reviving the Creature and exacting revenge on two former associates than in keeping his promises. Talbot transforms into a werewolf and kills a man, arousing the villagers.Talbot is also envied by the hunchback Daniel, as both love Ilonka Elena Verdugo, a gypsy girl. She has fallen in love with Talbot. Daniel reveals Talbots curse to Ilonka but she is not deterred and promises to help him fight the curse. ........

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