although inevitably link to the 70 decade and the concept of exploitation cinema be actually nearly as old a cinema itself . moreover and universal studio practically invent the term with their long running monster cycle dracula and frankenstein and the wolf man and the mummy . every original classic spawn a couple of sequel and at least and and after a while they even think up the idea of make genuine monster stew . house of frankenstein and release one year earlier and also direct by erle c. kenton and be quite a successful effort with interesting idea and enthusiast performance and but house of dracula be a little too loony for me to recommend it . the plot suffers too much from extremely irritate coincidental situation and forced twist and dialog and most of all a far too short run time to elaborate the monster personality like they deserve . onslow stevens doesn not receive top billing but play the most fundamental role a miracle a doctor who challenge to cure count dracula ( carradine ) from his incontrollable thirst for blood and fix lawrence talbot illness of mutate into a hairy wolf man whenever the moon be full . during a nightly walk in some cave and they also pick up the remainder of frankenstein monster and the good doctor himself eventually undergo a jekyll or hyde metamorphosis due to a bad blood transfusion . the last invitation to the messy party be a female hunchback ( though not of the notre dame ) . something be very wrong when youre watch a movie that be literally stuff with horror icon and yet the only character in the whole movie that be able to freak you out be an ordinary villager go by the name siegfried . the actual monster be dull and their once fabulous background be fully drain . count dracula be a whining romanticist and talbot be a pitiable and also whine old martyr and the frankenstein creation well and his share in the plot isn not even worth mention . there a serious lack of atmospheric setting and nifty photography in this universal film and especially compare to all their other effort and and the abrupt climax be a disaster .