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Roy William NeillDrehbuch:
Curt SiodmakKamera:
George RobinsonMusik:
Hans J. SalterBesetzung:
Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Dennis Hoey, Lon Chaney Jr., Dwight Frye, Jeff Corey, Lance Fuller (mehr)Inhalte(1)
On a moonlit night, graverobbers unwittingly unearth the tomb of Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man, who then begins a desperate search for a cure for his "condition." The search eventually leads him to a climactic confrontation with, of all creatures, Frankenstein's monster. (Verleiher-Text)
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Fast 70 Jahre alter Crossover zweier berühmter Monster des Universal Studios. Der Wolfman in der Interpretation von Lon Chaney Jr. kehrt unter den Lebenden zurück, um festzustellen, dass das Morden zufälliger Passanten in den nächtlichen Straßen ihn nicht mehr interessiert und er beschließt, seinen Fluch für immer loszuwerden. Die atmosphärische Einführung auf dem Friedhof ist leider das Beste, was wir hier finden können. Das versprochene Duell zwischen dem Werwolf und dem Frankenstein-Monster in Lugosis hölzerner Darbietung findet natürlich erst in den letzten drei Minuten statt. Zumindest fehlen nicht die gelungenen Interieurs des Schlosses und seine Miniaturmodelle mit der umgebenden Natur.
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The opening scene in the graveyard is vital for the rest of the movie. Atmospheric, excellently filmed and ending for some reason when everything is going so well. And that is the story of the entire picture. An unbelievably bad Lugosi in the role of Frankenstein’s Monster is enough to make you cry. It is malevolently pleasing that he doesn’t make much of an appearance. Lucky that he didn’t get the role of the monster in the original, 1931 version of Frankenstein. That would immediately have robbed the world of cinema of one of its all-time classics. And I had better not even mention Ilona Massey’s stiff acting. So we are left just with Chaney Jr. who again is absolutely convincing and gets lots of room to perform. Primarily, it is thanks to him that these two classic silver-screen monsters appearing together works. Too bad that the initial part in Cardiff is so isolated in its perfection. All qualities that it has are quickly forgotten with the journey to Vasaria and the B-movie action that follows. So, at the beginning it has all the ingredients to make it the best continuation of the series which might have been admired even from non-horror movie fans, but as I wrote at the beginning - it starts well, but runs out of fuel, remaining just at the departure point for a perfect movie. But it doesn’t arrive at its destination. Unfortunately.
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