Frankenstein (1931 film) the deliberately farcical "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948). Though it is unrelated to the Universal series, the later "Frankenstein 1970" has the scientist Frankenstein, here played by Karloff, animate the Monster using a nuclear reactor. Although Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant is often referred to as "Igor" in descriptions of the films, he is not so called in the earliest films. In both "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein", Frankenstein has an assistant who is played both times by Dwight Frye who is crippled. In the original 1931 film the character is named "Fritz" who is hunchbacked and walks with the aid
The House of Frankenstein (film) the monster and Niemann drown in quicksand. "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" (1943) had been the first on-screen pairing of two Universal Studios monsters, but "House of Frankenstein" was the first multi-monster movie. Early drafts of the story reportedly involved more characters from the Universal stable, including the Mummy, the Ape Woman, the Mad Ghoul, and possibly the Invisible Man. Working titles—which included "Chamber of Horrors" (a reference to Lampini's travelling horror show) and "The Devil's Brood"—emphasized the multi-monster nature of the story. The multi-monster approach, which emphasized box office appeal over continuity, was used in "House of Dracula" the