Doctor Dracula

Starring:John Carradine, Don 'Red' Barry, Larry Hankin, Geoffrey Land, Susan McIver, Regina Carrol, Jane Brunel-Cohen, Norman Pierce, Paul Thomas, Tweed Morris, Emily Smith, Vic Kirk, Robert W. Carr, Michael Renner, Noel Welch, Susan Catherine, Kathy Spencer, Laurie Gross, Nike Zachmanoglou, Zandor Vorkov
Director: Al Adamson, Paul Aratow
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Description

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. Dr. Durray (J. Carrol Naish) is really the last of the Frankensteins and is now running a house of horrors by the beach and performing experiments on Groton'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.

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BOTTOM OF THE BARREL JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-04-02

I had a friend(who is no longer on my christmas card list) who told me that this was just great and very funny. WRONG!!!!!!!!!! This is the pits and very sad to see many old time actors (Lon Chaney Jr, and J.Carol Nash, both in their last roles) trash themselves in this trash that isn't even as good or as funny as "Billy The Kid Vs Dracula"!!!!!! The worst and not worth getting if it were free.

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Insanity and psychedellia!!!!
UNRELENTING HORROR (and that ain't a compliment)
As lousy as this movie is-
It seems they have it confused with another movie...
A wonderful timecapsule, but only for a specific audience.

Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Starring: Forrest J Ackerman , John Bloom (III) , William Bonner , Regina Carrol , and Lon Chaney Jr.
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ASIN: B000056HPI
Release Date: 2001-02-27

Description

Cult director Al Adamson brings The kings of horror together in one film - they meet in a fight of fright! Judith Fontaine (Regina Carrol) is looking for her sister Joanie, who has apparently disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. As it turns out, Joanie has become the victim of Groton (Lon Chaney Jr.), an axe-wielding homicidal maniac. Dr. Durray (J. Carrol Naish), the last of the Frankensteins' bloodline, is now running a house of horrors by the beach and has been performing experiments on Groton's victims. One night, Count Dracula (Zandor Vorkov) visits the doctor, showing him the original Frankenstein creation that was buried in a nearby graveyard. With Dracula's help, the doctor painstakingly revives Frankenstein, and uses it to take revenge on his professional rivals. This entry in Troma Team Video's Al Adamson collection comes with a commentary track by producer Sam Sherman and a featurette "Producing Schlock."

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Insanity and psychedellia!!!!.......2007-02-05

I too remember seeing this on television around 1979 or 80. I was just a kid and to me a title like "Dracula vs.
Frankenstein" conjured images of Glenn Strange battleing John Carradine in glorious Black and White.
Boy was I shocked!!! This is closer to a hippie drug festival than any of Universals monster classics.
It completely shattered my image of what a Frankenstein/Dracula movie could be. My mind was blown but good.
I HATED IT!!! Guess what? 30 years later I love it. I realize now that director Al Adamson had a good excuse
for the state of this film. He made it for no money. Unlike Ed Wood, Adamson had the ability to make inteligent choices in his direction, His only limitations were budget and the culture of the time. The Hippie Dippy 70s were not exactly the best era to be making gothic horror. At least Sam Sherman (producer) and Adamson tried.
And, considering the odds were not just against them, but stabbing them in the gut, they succeded.
Is Al Adamson a better director than Wood? Of course he is. Al had much more adversity to conquer than Ed Wood. Adamson was tryingto make a contemporary hollywood competitor with a time limit and meeting the demands of his distributers. Ed Wood was trying to make 1930's hollywood quality films on his own unending
schedule (sometimes taking years to complete).
Consider this: Ed Wood decided to make an alien invasion film based around footage of Bela Lugosi walking around dressed as Dracula. Thats just completely moronic! He had fotage of Lugosi as Dracula and decided not to make a gothic monster movie but a space age sci fi epic with flying saucers. A tragic waste. He could have made a Dracula movie and had a genuine classic on his hands. Think of it: Lugosi's last film and hes playing Dracula, his greatest role. Sorry folks, Al Adamson was John Huston compared to Wood.

UNRELENTING HORROR (and that ain't a compliment).......2006-05-08

It was always a secret ambition of mine to be a movie trailer announcer during the heyday of drive-in cinema. I loved those bombastic voices carrying on about the cheesy movies as though it were the end of time. So I thought I would couch my review of this '71 "classic" in just those terms:

A FILM TO CURE INSOMNIA!

A NEW DEFINITION 0F HORROR

A FILM OF SUCH QUALITY AS TO MAKE ED D. WOOD APPEAR COMPETENT!

It's....DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN!

WATCH THE HORROR OF B MOVIE ACTORS NEAR DEATH AS THEY TRY TO BREATHE ONE LAST DESPERATE BREATH INTO THEIR ALREADY FORGOTTEN CAREERS!

LISTEN TO J. CARROLL NAISH'S DENTURES CLICK!

WATCH LON CHENEY WITH A BAD HAIRCUT KISS A PUPPY!

SEE FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND EDITOR FORRY ACKERMAN
HUGGED TO DEATH BY AN ACTOR WITH A GOAT-CHEESE OMLET ON
HIS FACE!

BEHOLD AL ADAMSON CONFUSE DAY FOR NIGHT! A TRICK POSSIBLE
ONLY BY THE GREATEST AUTUERS SUCH AS WOOD, HAAS, AND
HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS!

LISTEN AS COUNT DRACULA SPEAKS IN CONSTANT WALL OF SOUND
REVERB THAT WOULD TURN PHIL SPECTOR GREEN WITH ENVY!

WATCH THE PHONY MONSTER FIGHT AS DRAC SHREDS FRANK LIKE
A NANDINA BUSH!

It's...DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN!

Coming soon to a DVD bargain bin near you.

As lousy as this movie is-.......2006-03-03

-it scared the crap outta me as a kid when Dr. Shock aired it in the 70s (WPHL - Philadelphia). I miss that show. :(

It seems they have it confused with another movie..........2006-01-29

This version of Dracula VS Frankenstein is not to be confused with the 1971 J. Carroll Nash version with Lon Chaney. The other reviews on this page have it wrong! This version, starring Michael (the day the earth stood still) Rennie and The european wolfman Paul Naschey has space aliens trying to take over the world by resurrecting the planets most horrifying monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man and the mummy. Once alive the plan is to break earthman's will and conquer the planet. The acting is certainly very poor (except for the great Paul Naschey a.k.a Valdimar Daninsky a.k.a the Wolf Man) and the make-up on frankenstein looks like a child did it. It does have that campy , cheesy feel about it and those who are fans of B horror will get their fill. As for the title though, i don't think that Dracula ever does fight Frankenstin!

A wonderful timecapsule, but only for a specific audience........2005-09-20

Dracula Vs. Frankenstein was a movie from Independent International Pictures, with Sam Sherman acting as Producer, and long time friend and companion Al Adamson working as Director. The movie actually went through numerous changes before finally becoming Dracula Vs. Frankenstein. The original script didn't even have Dracula or Frankenstein in it!

Dracula (Zandor Vorkov, who's real name is Roger Engle) find's the body of the Frankenstein Monster in a cemetary (in California ?!). He brings the body to the wheelchair-bound Dr. Frankenstein (J. Carrol Nash, once famous character actor) who owns a spookhouse at a carnival. Dracula hopes that the Dr.'s "blood serum" will render him invulnerable, and in exchange give's him the Monster so that He may get revenge on the Dr. who crippled him (that Dr. is played by Forry Ackerman). Dr. Frankenstein also has a lab assistant, Groton (Lon Chaney Jr. in his final role), who when injected with the blood serum becomes a viscious axe murderer, killing love-makers near a beach! He's also aided by a midget called Grasbo, played by Angelo Rossito! One of his victims is the sister of busty blonde night club performer Judith Fontaine (Regina Carrol, Al Adamson's wife),who decides to take matters into her own hands and look for her sis, when the cops prove useless. However, she gets entangled in a horrifying web of monsters, hippies, and Russ Tamblyn, who looks like he's just waiting for his weed. Finally they stumble upon Dr.F and all is revealed. Groton is killed by the chief of police (Jim Davis), Grasbo falls on an axe, and Dr. Frankenstein's head is chopped off! Judith is kidnapped by Dracula and the Monster, and her love interest is melted by the fierce power of Dracula's ring (a very cheesy, but cool, effect). The Monsters carry her to an old church, and bind her, and her boobs, too a chair. Dracula lights some candles and prepares to have her "join him in the world of the undead", but he wasn't counting on the Monster's love for cleavage, and the viscious brute strikes Dracula with a chair (very funny, because it looks like it hurt, and there were obviously no stunt men)! Frankie knocks his ring off and chases Dracula into the woods. They then battle in day for night photography that is too dark. Finally Drac tears the Monster apart piece by piece, ripping his arms and his head off. Drac rushes back to his coffin, but the sun comes up and Dracula is fried, turning his face into a $0.75 halloween mask! Judith breaks free of the ropes, and after a nice close-up of her cleavage, she leaves and the movie ends! Wow.

Yes, there are two Dracula Vs. Frankensteins, but this is the "real" one. The other DvF is actually Assignment Terror, a Paul Naschy Hombre Lobo vehicle, where all the horror heavyweights battle it out, when they are ressurected by an alien played by Michael Rennie. It was retitled DvF for the American market in 1969....or '70, I think. Naschy is one of my all time faves, but this is about I.I.P.'s Dracula Vs. Frankenstein!

Lon Chaney Jr., and J. Carrol Nash worked together many times before, but most notably in House of Frankenstein!

There are many references to Son of Frankenstein in Dracula Vs. Frankenstein. Names and dialouge. Forrest J. Ackerman plays Dr. Bomont, which was the name of the crooked doctor in Son of Frankenstein. Also, the idea of having Dracula tear Frankenstein apart "piece by piece just as Frankenstein created him" is also mentioned in Son of Frankenstein.

Unfortunatly, Al Adamson was murdered a couple years ago by a man hired to work on his house. His body was discovered inside the cement pool foundation! And this was only a short time after Regina Carrol died of cancer. Al spent all his time and money fighting her inevitable passing, a fight no one could have one.The world has lost two wonderful entertainers...

Thankfully, all of Al's movies are now widely available on DVD for all fans of B-cinema to enjoy. But be warned these movies are dated, and a younger or more modern, or simply ignorant audience, will NOT appreciette them. Their loss, cause these are some very fun movies, and Dracula Vs. Frankenstein is easily one of the best of them!

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