Next up in our Universal Monster torture, I mean movies, was this film. We didn't have high hopes going into it.
Dracula just wanders into this doctor's house hoping to find a cure for being a vampire. The doctor doesn't believe in superstitious nonsense, but he knows all the lore somehow. While waiting for his cure, Dracula decides it will be a good idea to hypnotize one of the live-in nurses of the castle. I guess you can't blame him too much, they do dress up nice for no reason. Except for the hunchback one.
For some reason, Wolfman shows up, also wanting a cure. I'm not sure why he's there, he's supposed to be dead. Last I saw, he was murdered by true love's bullet. And we can't say the movies aren't connected, because they find Frankenstein's monster underneath this castle. Apparently, the swamp mud carried the corpse of the monster and his doctor friend wherever we are in this movie.
So we use some mold spores to make a plaster to soften Wolfman's skull and heal him (or something), and then Dracula (who is also supposed to be dead - a few times now) reverses his transfusion and infects the doctor. I was kidding at one point when I said the Invisible Man was going to show up, but then the doctor was disappearing. It was just from the mirror, and it was the vampire stuff, but it was still pretty funny.
Big shout out to my guy Lionel Atwill. This was one of his very last movies, since he died soon after. I've enjoyed him in these films, and I'm sad he won't be around anymore.
This movie was ridiculous. The hunch on the woman's back changed shape all the time, and everything Dracula did made no sense. The very first thing he did was land as a bat on a balcony and walk down the steps. Just land on the back porch! Geez. Okay, so we should be done with Wolfman. He's been cured by mold. I think our next one is another House of...something. Oh my.
RIP Lionel!
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