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(1969, Upgraded 12/30/20, aka DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Paul Naschy, Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Ferdinando Murolo, Gene Reyes. Rennie is an alien mad scientist whose race is out to conquer Earth. From a castle in Transylvania he revives legendary monsters to help him carry out this insane scheme. There are more monsters afoot than you can shake a stick at: Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Mummy all star (plus aliens Rennie and Dor). Kind of a Euro House of Frankenstein, filled with lots of schlocky, fun moments and some pretty cool lab scenes. In spite of the film's aka title, there's no actual battle between Dracula and Frankenstein; however, Paul's wolfman ends up taking on, first the mummy, then Frankenstein. In fact, the Frankenstein-wolfman fight sequence really pays homage to Frankenstein meets the Wolfman (1943) with Paul leaping off of lab equipment and knocking the monster around. The whole bit with Dracula's revival is right out of House of Frankenstein. Dor wasn't too far removed from her success in You Only live Twice. Karin was so damn beautiful. It's too bad that her and Barbara Steele never worked together in a horror film—what a combo that would have been! Beautiful color, widescreen from 35mm.
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