Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 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 based upon Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", directly after "The Ghost of Frankenstein", and a sequel to "The Wolf Man". Some four years after the events of "The Wolf Man" and "The Ghost of Frankenstein", two men break into
The Wolf Man (1941 film) film. The film was not a huge box office success, probably because audiences of the day thought it too similar in many ways to "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", for which Fredric March had won an Oscar three years before. Some latter-day critics prefer Henry Hull's earlier werewolf to Chaney's, which was described in Carlos Clarens's book "An Illustrated History of the Horror FIlm" as "... looking like a hirsute Cossack." The Wolf Man is one of three top-tier Universal Studios monsters without a direct literary source. The others are The Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. In