Two questions:
1) Frankenstein survives in Frankie Meets The Wolf Man and House of Frankenstein. Is that Ygor still...? That confuses me.
2) And how does the monster end up at the ruins of Frankenstein (in Frankie meets wolf man) if the last scene ends up in this movie in Vaseria or wherever we are.
Did the script people not care about the subsequent scripts?
To answer your first question, yes that is Ygor's brain still in the creature's body. The original script called for a blind, talking creature in Frankenstein meet the Wolf Man. However, after studio suits view some of the early rushes, they did not think that audiences would like such a creature.
The script was rewritten and the scenes edited to ignore the blindness and Bela's voice removed from the soundtrack. You might notice the creature staggering around ( this "walk" would become part of the Frankenstein legend) and his lips moving but no words coming out.
As two question two. No one cared about details from script to script. Look to the Mummy movies for examples of this.
In Ghost of Frankenstein Ygor and the Monster travel from the village of Frankenstein to Vasaria. The fire at Ludwig Frankenstein's sanitarium in which the Monster perishes is in Vasaria. In Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman the ruined castle where Larry Talbot finds the Monster trapped in ice is supposed to be the same sanitarium (although it's now the remains of a castle instead of the large mansion from GoF). The location is still Vasaria. The Monster and the Wolf Man perish in these ruins when the dam is dynamited and the ruins flooded.
The confusion comes in with the next film, House of Frankenstein, when Dr. Niemann and Daniel investigate these ruins - but the location is now the village of Frankenstein. After discovering the Monster and Talbot, the group travels to Niemann's castle ... in Vasaria! The scriptwriters were simply careless.
Wow, I never really noticed that. That's ridiculous. Somehow I think that detracts from the value of the moves if the script guys weren't even careful enough to note what towns they were supposed to be in. Whatever, Karloff, Lugosi, and Chaney are great.
shareWell, how about this: the village of Frankenstein was just a few miles downstream from Visaria (or however it's supposedly spelled), so when the dam exploded, the flood just happened to wash them over to Frankenstein, where they then froze. Couldn't have been all that far, since Ygor and the monster walked from Frankenstein to Visaria at the beginning of GoF.
Makes as much sense as anything else.
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Then again, the towns had to be far enough apart so that the people in Ludwig's town had never heard of the Frankenstein monster.
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Okay, then: another not-to-be-taken-too-seriously theory.
At the beginning of GoF, one of the town council complains that the village of Frankenstein is "shunned by every traveler," so word about what happened there obviously got around. Then, when Ygor and the monster arrive in Visaria and inquire about a Dr. Frankenstein, the "goose girl's" questioning reply is, "You mean the one who heals those who are sick in mind," as though there were others in town.
The theory, then, is this: the people in Visaria had heard about the monster over in the next village, but "Frankenstein" was such a common name, they never made the connection.
Yeah, I know. But to explain so many inconsistencies, you have to get creative.
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I don't worry too much about the continuity.
MST3K mantra.
Though the continuity errors are most noticeable during marathon viewings.
Can't stop the signal.
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