Lugosi was never ideal for the Universal style Monster.

I agree that Lugosi never had the right look for the monster, but not because he needed to be bulkier. Karloff was rail thin and it gave his monster a nice gaunt appearance. The "bulk" was lots of padding. Lugosi's face was too "jowly" (some might say the same about Chaney).

I've always wished Glenn Strange had started playing the monster in FMTWM.

i guess you can say all these fellas were originally cast properly and the sequels are kind of messy, but according to the bonus material i saw on the wolf man double dvd, they wanted these "exotic europeans" as they describe it in their movies, it was common man lon chaney jr who had a problem getting work. as long as they're gonna make a goofy combined monster movie, why not throw in more of the monsters, i think the mummy and frankenstein's bride never appeared in one of these gatherings, of course the creature from the black lagoon hadn't even made appearance of his first movie by this time. i really wish bela lugosi had a speaking part, as it is now you just think right behind the monster is bela lugosi. notice how some shots look like something out of a western movie, and it's so obviously miniature buildings by the end you know what will happen. i think in all these "monster meet monster" movies they just repeat the plot of the original monster flick and have a monster fight at the end, not even the titles make sense, this should clearly have put more emphasis on the wolf man.



🐺 🌗 🤖⚡️🏰




grown accustomed as you say goodbye,
urging for your lovin charms to stay around,
where i can escape the hostile,
as your magic vanish,
im back out in middle of nowhere,
driftin through the cold rain,
revealin the invisible man,
whispers echo in old town not welcomed at.

I thought Lugosi played an excellent monster. To me though, the best Frankenstein Monster was played by Sam McMurray in The Munsters Christmas movie