So- two of the cast members of Universal's House of Frankenstein- J. Carrol Naish and Lon Chaney, Jr- plus Forrest J. Ackerman doing a bit part. How can it go wrong?Fairly well, actually.
Dracula vs Frankenstein is pretty bad, but bad in a grindhouse good kind of way.
Naish plays the descendant of Frankenstein, still playing his ancestor's games of life and death in Venice, California, with the assistance of Groton, Chaney in his last role. Dracula has possession of the original Frankenstein's Monster and has need of the Doctor. Groton's out chopping people up for the Doctor's latest project.
Meanwhile, a happening chick who's a headliner in Vegas has come to town to find her sister- one of Groton's victims. She runs afoul of Rico, a gang leader played by Russ Tamblyn.
This subplot seems almost like something out of another movie, but the director/writer Al Adamson handle it well, even though he's someone I think of more for his murder than his movies. He even got a E! True Hollywood Story: Al Adamson- Murder of a B Movie King.
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