Double Dragon (1994)
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Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader has the other...
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
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One year after Kevin was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he...
Knights of Stone: Lachlan (Highland Gargoyles #2)
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As the new alpha of his gargoyle clan, Lachlan takes on a leadership role at the historic peace...
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Dog Rose Dirt
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When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother's baffling suicide,...
Little Treasure He Hides (Little Paws Haven #1)
JP Sayle and Lisa Oliver
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Asher has learned to hide who he is. Can his fated mate heal the layers of pain and mistrust to...
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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated House of Dracula (1945) in Movies
Jun 18, 2020
The plot: This monster movie focuses on the iconic vampire, Count Dracula (John Carradine), and Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney), better known as the Wolf Man. Both beings of the night are tired of their supernatural afflictions, so they seek out Dr. Franz Edelmann (Onslow Stevens) for cures for their respective curses. While trying to aid the imposing creatures, Edelmann himself develops a transformative condition, adding to the many ghouls lurking around the foreboding landscape.
The working titles for the film were Dracula vs. the Wolf Man or The Wolf Man vs. Dracula.
Although Glenn Strange appears as the Monster in most of the film, footage of Chaney as the Monster from The Ghost of Frankenstein and Boris Karloff from Bride of Frankenstein was recycled; Karloff appears in a dream sequence, while Chaney, as well as his double Eddie Parker, are seen in footage in a fire scene.
Strange recounts that a scene with the Monster stuck in quicksand was particularly arduous for him. On top of three hours of getting into makeup, Strange spent the rest of the day buried in cold sand, including during the lunch break, and was so cold by midafternoon that he could barely feel his legs. Lon Chaney Jr. attempted to help Strange keep warm by passing him a bottle of scotch, with the result that Strange was so drunk that after getting out of costume and makeup, he had difficulty dressing himself in his street clothes. Chaney's drinking contributed to his reputation as being difficult to work with, and probably was the reason Universal let him go after the film was completed.
The film, which was the seventh Universal film to feature Frankenstein's monster, as well as the fourth with Count Dracula and the Wolf Man, was a commercial success, but was one of the last Universal movies featuring Frankenstein's monster, vampires, and werewolves, with the exception of the comedy Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), in which all three appear.
Its a fun entertaing horror film starring the universal monsters.
Until Forever Comes (Mates #2)
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Ethan Abbatt is a wolf shifter who can't shift. Plagued by pain and weakness all his life, he hopes...
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