1944年のアメリカ映画。1943年の『フランケンシュタインと狼男』『夜の悪魔』の正当な続編でもある。フランケンシュタイン男爵が創り上げた怪物はもちろん、ドラキュラ、狼男ほかおなじみモンスターが揃い踏みの人気シリーズの一作。刑務所から脱走した博士が手下を連れて男爵の城を目指した。旅の途中で彼はドラキュラに出会い、自分を刑務所に送った村長を殺すように仕向けるがドラキュラは陽光に当たって死んでしまう。次に、氷漬けの狼男と怪物を発見し……。
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監督: Erle C. Kenton
脚本: Edward T. Lowe Jr. / Bram Stoker / Curt Siodmak
音楽: Paul Dessau / Charles Previn
制作: Paul Malvern
撮影監督: George Robinson
制作会社: Universal Pictures
Welcome to the house of fun now I've come of age... Let the Universal Monster tag team continue unabated! In truth there's not really a whole movie here, it's more a skew-whiff anthology involving Dracula (John Carradine), the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr) and Frankenstein's Monster (Glenn Strange), with Boris Karloff's mad scientist and J. Carrol Naish's hunchback serving as the linking meat in the monster sandwich. Plot is for the genre at the time the standard Universal fodder, mad scientist and hunchback manage - by an act of god - to escape from prison. Scientist is after revenge, hunchback wants a new body. After a short encounter with Dracula via a travelling chamber of horrors side-show, the pair head off to the Frankenstein castle - with pretty gypsy girl and Larry Talbot/Wolf Man in tow - where hopes and dreams involve a lot of brain swapping. What transpires is a bit of violent jealousy and disappointments, building up to the monster smack down finale just as the villagers once again take unkindly to the presence of monsters in their midst. It's all good fun, the clichés of the franchise crammed into the hour and ten minute run time ensuring it's never boring. But really the Dracula section will leave you wanting more, while Frankenstein's monster - in the film bearing his name - just lounges around for a bit and then it's pretty much the end! Enjoyable if disposable 6/10
