House of Dracula and Franky meets the Wolfman better

My old friend Donald C. Willis' opinion of this was, "repulsive mixture of horror and sentimentality" and I have to agree with him. J. Carroll Naish is one of my favorite character actors, but there is really nothing he can do to give this bathetic part his usual fine idiosyncratic spin. The revenge plot is put in as a "Karloffian" device to best serve Boris' sardonic line readings and remind us of his earlier films in that "getting even" mode, such as "The Invisible Ray" and "The Walking Dead." (though in the latter he's not intentionally evil, if I remember correctly) John Carradine is terribly boring as Dracula and his exchanges with Anne Gwynne are the usual "my world, your world", etc. (please see my post on Message Board for "House of Dracula" on this point) I kept thinking that Elena Verdugo would have made an interesting Veda in "Mildred Pierce"; I know, I know, Ann Blyth was excellent in that, but watch some of Elena's scenes with Daniel as she's being flirtatious and mildly duplicitous and then tell me if I'm all wet. Makes Sense Department: Karloff, finding the Monster and Talbot encased in ice, says to Daniel, "I'll revive them and they'll help us get Dr. Frankenstein's notes!" Yep, that's going right to the source. And of course Verdugo must be killed because her Ilonka is sexually assertive and a... GYPSY! And according to the script. gypsies are all thiefs and morally corrupt.