Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Once again they ignore the back story and the previous movie. I assume that's going to happen a lot, so I better get use to it. For some reason they decided to have Bela Lugosi play the monster and Lon Cheney play the Wolf Man even though Cheney played the monster in the previous movie. I just found out that this is also a sequel to The Wolf Man, which is silly. How can one movie be a sequel to two movies? I know they did it again later with I Was A Teenage Werewolf and I Was A Teenage Frankenstein being followed by How To Make A Monster. Unfortunately I haven't seen either of the Wolf Man movies but I don't really think that affected my enjoyment of either movie. Anyway, once again Europe is full of people with American accents and I always find that odd. So the Wolf Man comes back to life and kills two people and those murders are never mentioned. The police call the town he is from and they say he died but never mention he was a werewolf. Seeing The Wolf Man may have helped me there. The Wolf Man escapes and travels all of Europe until he finds some old gypsy woman. It literally takes thirty seconds of movie time. They go to where Frankenstein was from(I still have no idea where that is.) and he easily finds the monster. Then even though he has been dead for four years and just traveled across Europe on foot, he shows up to meet the Baroness in a brand new suit. This movie is a bit of a mess but I've seen worse. Three stars.

I personally found this to be an exciting film - from start to finish. It's all a matter of personal preference as to whether or not you will like this film (just like all films).This one I really enjoyed Lon Chaney's performance. Very intense and outstanding performance by Chaney. As usual Larry Talbot is wanting a cure or to simply die because of his unwanted infliction - he does not want to harm anyone.Bela Lugosi's Monster is good too - very terrifying. We all know it's hard to fill the shoes of Boris Karloff in the role as the Monster and I think that Lugosi was great - he did his best as always. AND it gives us an idea of what it would have been like if Bela Lugosi had not turned down the role for The Monster in 1931 (Frankenstein).The movie starts out good (maybe a bit slow for some) and builds up to an exciting ending where The Monster and The Wolf Man battle it out.A film worth watching if you enjoy Universal Classic Monsters.9.5/10

This is a sequel to The ghost of Frankenstein. It is also a sequel to The wolf man. This has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. It is very intense. It is one of the scariest movies ever. House of Frankenstein is better but only by a little bite. See this movie. It is great. It is very scary. House of Dracula which is the seventh universal Frankenstein movie and also the fourth universal wolf man movie is also better. This is the fifth universal Frankenstein movie. It also the second universal wolf man movie. It is a must see. The wolf man is looking for Doctor Frankenstein to find out secrets of life and death. A g.i.p.s.y woman form the first movie is helping. They find out the monster is not dead. Just in active. And he walks up. Now the wolf man must stop the Frankenstein monster for good.

To be honest, I enjoyed it more than any of the solo "Frankenstein" sequels, though that is mainly because that I thought that the Larry Talbot part of the film was very good. Bela Lugosi makes a rather weak Frankenstein's Monster in comparison to Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney, Jr. and is nowhere near as effective as he had been as either Count Dracula or Ygor. It's not the only problem with his performance but it isn't helped by the fact that he was a much slighter man than either of his predecessors, making him far less intimidating physically. His screen time is far too limited for the Monster to be as interesting as he had been in some of the previous films. On the other hand, Chaney is again very good as the Wolf Man, though he isn't as effective when playing his alter ego Larry Talbot. Originally, the plan was for him to play both the Wolf Man and the Monster but that was abandoned as it would have been a logistical nightmare, which is a shame. The rest of the cast is very strong, including the enchanting Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill (playing his third character in as many "Frankenstein" films) and Maria Ouspenskaya. The editing, however, is rather poor. In many scenes (including the Monster's first appearance!), it is a little too obvious that it is a stunt double rather than Lugosi.