Dracula vs. Frankenstein

19711971
GPGP
1h 31min

Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.

3.5/10

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Directors
- Al Adamson
- Samuel M. Sherman(Dracula's Death Scene)
Writers
- William Pugsley(story)
- Samuel M. Sherman(story)
Stars

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Bruce Kimball in Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Maria Lease and Regina Carrol in Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

John Bloom in Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Regina Carrol in Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Zandor Vorkov in Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Lon Chaney Jr. in Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Directors
- Al Adamson
- Samuel M. Sherman(Dracula's Death Scene) (uncredited)
Writers
- William Pugsley(story) (screenplay)
- Samuel M. Sherman(story) (screenplay)
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Judith Fontaine (Regina Carrol) is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out Joanie has become the victim of Groton (Lon Chaney Jr.), an axe-wielding homicidal maniac working for Dr. Durray (J. Carrol Naish), who is really the last of the Frankensteins and is now running a house of horrors by the beach and is performing experiments on Gorton's victims. One night Count Dracula (Zandor Vorkov) visits the doctor, showing him the original Frankenstein creation that was buried in a nearby graveyard. The doctor revives it and uses it to take revenge on his professional rivals. —Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>

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Taglines
- New! Different! Shocking!
Genres
- Horror
- Sci-Fi
Certificate
- GP
Parents guide

Trivia
At this point in his career, J. Carrol Naish was very ill and frail and could no longer remember dialogue, so he read it off cue cards. However, he had only one real eye, so in his dialogue close-ups you can see one eye moving back and forth, reading the lines, while the other eye remains fixed in position.

Goofs
J. Carrol Naish's character first refers to Lon Chaney Jr.'s character as "Grodin," although his name is actually "Groton." Thereafter, Naish gets it right.

Quotes
[Referring to some hippies on the beach]
Martin: It seems that living near the water brings out the best and worst in us.

Crazy credits
For his bit part, Forrest J. Ackerman's first name is listed in the credits as "Forest."

Alternate versions
According to Sam Sherman, the TV version removed the brief topless nudity of the girl on the operating table. It also removed a sign saying "Society Sucks".

Connections
Edited into FrightMare Theater: Dracula vs Frankenstein (2018)

Soundtracks
Here and Now
Words and Music by J.D. Lobue
ASCAP
Recorded by Communication Plus

Top review

Al Adamson's magnum opus

Each artist has his defining moment. With Picasso, it was "Guernica". Orson Welles had "Citizen Kane".And Al Adamson's is surely "Dracula vs Frankenstein". It is the quintessential example of his style,the ultimate Adamson flick. Sure,"Satan's Sadists" was great and "Horror of the Blood Monsters" had its moments, but nothing combined so many aspects of the master's approach. Cheesy monsters, sleazy bikers, awful music, Regina Carrol, Lon Chaney, Jr.,a cameo by Forrest J. Ackerman, the original lab equipment from 1931's "Frankenstein",a wigged-out LSD trip and even a breezy Las Vegas musical number...in what other film do such iconic elements combine? Truly, "Dracula vs. Frankenstein" is a towering achievement of drive-in cinema.

Al's works are starting to be appreciated much as Ed Wood's are. And why not? Entertainment is the name of the game and Al throws everything into this ghouish goulash with maximum gusto. Put your brain beneath the chair, enter the surreal world of "Dracula vs. Frankenstein" and prepare to be blown away!

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