Senseless and Only Fun for the Pure Goofiness...

I usually avoid most of Jess Franco's films but this one seemed like it might be interesting. It has a plot, if one can call it that, reminiscent of the Universal monster mash films. Dracula (Howard Vernon in a highly unrewarding role with no dialog and bad makeup) gets unspectacularly staked in a castle we will see a lot more of... Then Rainer Frankenstein arrives to revive him to further some plan for world domination - and wakes up his greenish Monster (with red lines and dots to show surgery and bolts in the neck, because...) as well. There is plenty of rubber bat action (and at least one badly tormented real bat) a couple of vampire women and some bored looking "gypsies". As you watch, look forward to the (singularly sad looking) wolfman appearing in the final ten minutes, allegedly to set everything right.

Aside from a number of frequent stock shots, odd bits of editing and scenes that last too long or go nowhere, this film has a bit of trouble deciding what century it is set in, what with horse drawn carriages and motorcars at various points. Of course, it's all so detached from reality that the odd settings of the classic Universal films seems downright mundane by comparison.