How old were you?
ME:
Late junior high school. 1976. WPIX Chiller theater on NY TV station.
Liked it but understood it's "badness".
As an adult - it's one of my favorite "bad-but-fascinating" movies!!
"In every dimension , there's another YOU!"
I was a kid in the mid-1970s. Saw this on television and recall the terrible lighting-many shadows and of course, Dracula ripping Frankenstein limb by limb.
shareLast night; DVR'ed it, watched on the couch; thought it goes in the "so bad it's really bad" category. The low for me was Regina Carrol's ridiculous Vegas number about having the phone in her suitcase, etc. For a minute or two there I thought I wasn't gonna make it.
About midway through it became obvious that this was a mad scientist film with the two title characters tacked on later in re-shoots because the backers knew it all just wasn't working. So it was really two bad films in one, or a sort of bad double feature with one bad film edited into the other and lots of meaningless support characters and sub-plot dead ends.
Other thoughts:
* My mind actually wandered during the title bout.
* Dracula as sort of a seedy pimp with a 'fro was a different take on the legend.
* Dracula tying up his victims was new, too.
* Dracula's zap-ring was kind of cool, but what the hell?
* Cabbage Patch Frankie.
* Fun to see 4E, and fun to hear the (uncredited) "Creature From The Black Lagoon" score.
This last one, I'll post in code to avoid spoilers, though it's been mentioned elsewhere: If Superman and Batman had not tied into it until the final five minutes of their film, and then Superman simply tore off Batman's arms and head, I'd have been a little bummed.
Who do I see about getting my ninety minutes back?
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Probably like 1980 when I was finishing up high school. Watched late one Friday night on the "Big Chuck & Little John Show", which was a later incarnation of the legendary Ghoulardi's show. I knew it was a bad production, but I have to admit I loved it. Never saw it again on TV, but I never forgot about it. Then around 2006 I had a strong desire to see it again so I ended up buying it. It was even worse than I remembered. What didn't change was that I still loved it.
shareI never got to see it. When I was a kid, I'd read about it in Famous Monsters of Filmland and always hope I could see it, but it never came on TV. Somewhere in my mind I have a long list of monster movies I read about but never saw. I imagine it had to do with rights, but it seemed like the same handful of movies showed over and over, while others never did, and this was one that I always hoped would show up on Creature Features. Or, maybe it did but I had to go to bed early that night and never knew about it.
shareThis was one scary flick. Dracula, working with an evil mad scientist who had a deranged assistant was trying to create an army of vampires to take over the world. And the Frankenstein Monster was as terrifying as ever being about 7 foot tall, and loyal to someone as evil as Dracula. And Dracula with the creepy voice, powerful ring with that big hairdo and scary looking makeup. I was so happy Dracula couldn't make it back to his coffin in time after defeating the Frankenstein Monster. These 2 guys blew away Lugosi and Karloff in my opinion the way they portrayed the monsters
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