Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and Kong. The 2009 film "House of the Wolf Man" is a tribute to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" and Universal's other "monster mash" films and also features a climactic clash between Frankenstein's Monster and a werewolf. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is a 1943 American horror film produced by Universal Studios starring Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This was the first of a series of "ensemble" monster films combining characters from several film series. This film, therefore, is both the fifth in the series of films
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Wolf Man" and "The Ghost of Frankenstein". Immediately following his success in "Dracula", Bela Lugosi had been the first choice to play the Monster in Universal's original "Frankenstein" film, but Lugosi famously turned down the nonspeaking, heavily made-up role: as conceived by the original director Robert Florey, the Monster was nothing more than a mindless killing machine and not suitable for Lugosi's rising stardom and career as a leading actor. After the change of directors to James Whale, along with a major script and conceptual revision, the virtually unknown Boris Karloff was then cast in his star-making role. (Florey later