Halloween season
simply isn’t Halloween season without a regular dose of classic Universal horror (1923-1963). Every day this October, I’ll be giving you a steady IV drip of it by counting down Psychobabble’s 31 Favorite Universal
Horrors!
#25. House of Dracula
(1945- dir. Erle C. Kenton)
Not nearly as much fun as Erle C. Kenton’s previous monster-rally
house, House of Dracula does improve on its Frankensteinian predecessor in some
ways. The film’s three monster’s are better integrated (though there still
seems to be an unwillingness to find much for the Frankenstein Monster to do)
since Dracula is not dispatched before the other creeps even appear this time.
John Carradine continues to make an interesting and elegant vampire, and the
mad scientist plot to cure vampirism is pretty original. Plus, you just can’t
go wrong any time Universal’s three main monsters share the screen.
