Dracula chases Frankenstein
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dracula chases Frankenstein / Los monstruos del terror |
| Country of production |
Spain Germany Italy |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Tulio Demicheli Hugo Fregonese Eberhard Meichsner |
| script |
Paul Naschy (as Jacinto Molina Alvarez) |
| production | Jaime Prades |
| music |
Franco Salina Rafael Ferrer-Fitó |
| camera | Godofredo Pacheco |
| cut | Emilio Rodríguez |
| occupation | |
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Dracula chasing Frankenstein is a horror film by Tulio Demicheli , Hugo Fregonese and Eberhard Meichsner from 1970. It was made in a Spanish-German-Italian co-production.
action
The planet Ummo freezes, so the inhabitants are looking for a new planet to colonize. You plan to take over the earth. Dr. Varnoff is to prepare the takeover on site. The biologist Melissa Kerstein, who died in a car accident, and the surgeon Kirsten Werner, who died in combat operations, are put to his side; they act in them via extraterrestrial life . The goal of the aliens is to bring various man-made monsters under their control and through them to infect and thus wipe out all of humanity. At the folk festival in Blaustadt they take control of the skeleton of the vampire Count Janos de Mialhoff, which they bring to life. They also kidnap the nurse Ilona, who is now under Varnoff's control and assists with the monster experiments.
Varnoff builds his laboratory in an old monastery. He operates on the heart of the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky, removes the bullet that was once shot at him and thus brings the seemingly dead back to life. When Waldemar kills a woman and animal hair is found on her, the police investigations are intensified, which began after Ilona and other women had disappeared. Inspector Henry Tobermann is entrusted with the investigation. He learns from the young Ilsa Sternberg, who was attacked by Waldemar, that her father was confronted with a werewolf before. Sternberg's father reports that his wife was once worshiped by Waldemar Daninsky, who however became a werewolf due to a curse. Meanwhile, Ilsa and Tobermann become lovers.
The aliens go to Egypt, where they free the mummy Tao-Tet, who is controlled by Varnoff. In addition, they bring back to life the monster ( Frankenstein ) once created by Ulrich von Varancksalan , which is operated electrically and is also controlled by Varnoff. Varnoff and the other aliens believe that human passion is their greatest weakness. Varnoff therefore punishes emotions. When Melissa (as Alien Maleva) and Kirsten Werner (Kerian) discover their feelings for each other, Varancksalan's monster kills Kerian. Maleva is punished by Varnoff. Waldemar and Ilona, who can break away from Varnoff's influence, also secretly love each other. Both flee. Tobermann meanwhile suspects that Varnoff is responsible for the murders and kidnappings of women; in the meantime Ilsa has also disappeared. He goes to the monastery, where he is captured by Varnoff. Waldemar and Ilona free him. Tobermann can also save Ilsa. He kills vampire Janos de Mialhoff. Waldemar, who has mutated into a werewolf, kills the mummy and can also kill Francksalan's monster in Varnoff's laboratory. Ilona finally shoots him because only a shot in the heart by a woman who loves him so much that she would die for him can free him from the curse. Before he dies, he strangles Ilona.
The monastery is surrounded by the police. Those in power on the planet Ummo recognize that the mission has failed. Blamed for this, Varnoff admits that people's passion is their greatest strength, and dies on earth. Maleva disappears too, as she had long since died as a human shell. Tobermann states that humanity will exist as long as people are willing to sacrifice themselves for others.
production
Dracula chasing Frankenstein was filmed in 1968 in Barcelona , Madrid and Wasserburg am Inn , among others . The locations were also the Ermita de San Frutos and the ruins of the Santa María la Real monastery near San Martín de Valdeiglesias . Screenwriter Paul Naschy took on the role of the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky in the film, which he already played in Las noches del Hombre Lobo (1968) and The Vampires of Dr. Dracula (1968) played and impersonated in numerous other horror films until 2004.
The film opened in German cinemas on February 27, 1970 and was released on DVD in 2012 and 2013. On December 12, 2014, Dracula chasing Frankenstein was part of the series The worst films of all time (SchleFaZ) on Tele 5 on German television, where he was commented by Oliver Kalkofe and Peter Rütten .
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Varnoff | Michael Rennie | Wilhelm Borchert |
| Maleva | Karin Dor | Beate Hasenau |
| Henry Tobermann | Craig Hill | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
| Ilsa | Patty Shepard | Renate Küster |
| Dr. Kirian | Angel del Pozo | Karlheinz Brunnemann |
| Waldemar Daninsky | Paul Naschy | Rolf Schult |
criticism
For the film service , Dracula hunted Frankenstein was “a horror movie , whose intention to make fun of the genre is lost in primitive unsavory.” “One may well ask what screenwriter Paul Naschy […] was smoking when he heard this story at the end of the 1960s shot through the head, ”wrote Stern . The Protestant Film Observer describes the work as a “mixture of horror film and science fiction flick” and remarks succinctly that it is “really boring and bland”. Sat 1 aired the film in April 1993 as part of a series of Dracula films. The critics saw him as one of the films in which you notice "that an original cast alone does not help if the directors lack a feel for the genre."
On December 12, 2014, the film was shown as part of the Tele-5 series The Worst Films of All Time .
Web links
- Dracula Frankenstein hunts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dracula chases Frankenstein in the German dubbing index
- ↑ Dracula chases Frankenstein. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Sexed monster trash . stern.de, December 12, 2014.
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 116/1970
- ↑ Count Dracula's unfortunate heirs . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , February 11, 1993, S. FIFU.