Dracula's blood wedding with Frankenstein

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Movie
German title Dracula's blood wedding with Frankenstein
Original title Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Al Adamson
script William Pugsley
Samuel M. Sherman
production Al Adamson
Mardi Rustam
Mohammed Rustam
Samuel M. Sherman
John Van Horne
music William Lava
camera Paul Glickman
Gary Graver
cut Irwin Cadden
occupation

Dracula vs. Frankenstein (Original title: Dracula vs. Frankenstein ) is a horror - Drama of Al Adamson from 1971. Performed by numerous icons of classic horror and science-fiction film with, among others, Jr. Lon Chaney. and J. Carrol Naish in their final film roles.

action

Count Dracula digs up the famous Frankenstein monster in a cemetery . Then he kills the cemetery keeper and drinks his blood. The dancer Judith Fontaine complains to the police that they are no longer looking for her missing sister Joan. After the police chief advises her to withdraw and wait, she decides to look for her herself. She drives to the town her sister moved to shortly before she disappeared and tries to collect information from a bar . She is drugged there by the local managers, which is why the hippie Mike takes her home. When she wakes up the next morning, he tells Judith that people who are too curious are not welcome in this area. Then he introduces her to his friends Samantha and Grazbo.

Meanwhile, the mysterious Dr. Durea takes a few teenagers into his house of horrors and shows them several mutilated corpses , which he presents to them as illusions. The guests also get to see his animalistic lackey Groton, who is only apparently beheaded afterwards. When Durea and Groton withdraw to his laboratory, he injects him with a serum that he has made from the blood of a young woman, Judith's sister. With this serum he can supposedly cure his illness and get out of the wheelchair. Suddenly Count Dracula appears, whom Dr. Durea can identify because of his ring. Dracula identifies Durea as the final successor to Dr. Frankenstein, who created the monster many years ago. He makes him the proposal to work together, which Durea refuses. Dracula uses his ring to force him to accept the offer. The corpse of the Frankenstein monster is then brought back to life by electricity .

Judith and Mike decide to go to the horror room with Samantha and Grazbo to ask for more information about Joan. Dr. However, after a few questions, Durea turns her away and asks her to leave his property. However, Judith notices that the doctor looks nervous when looking at a picture of her sister. Mike promises to a little about this man research and find out if he really is a doctor. On the way back to Mike's apartment they meet Samantha's ex-boyfriend Rico and his gang, who want to beat Grazbo and rob Samantha, but then have to flee from the police. They assure Samantha that they would come back. It happens that same night, but the bikers are mutilated with an ax by Groton . Then he drags Samantha into the cabinet. Mike finds out and storms past the diminutive door guard into the Chamber of Secrets. Judith follows him. When they get into the secret laboratory , they are attacked by Groton and the door guard, but the latter falls through a trapdoor with his face on Groton's ax. Dr. Durea throws Mike under the guillotine and then beheads him. Then he is beheaded himself. Groton can be shaken off by Mike and Samantha freed. During a furious chase over the roof of the nearby factory , Groton is shot by the alarmed police and falls to the ground. Also in the basement vaults hidden held Frankenstein creature breaks out of the dungeon and attack the hero, but then dazzled by him. Count Dracula arrives and is immediately attacked by the furious creature.

After a short fight, Dracula is able to fend off the monster with the help of his ring and it falls to the ground. Then he tells Mike that as punishment for getting Dr. Durea or Dr. To have beheaded Frankenstein had to die himself. He also pretends that he would use the scientist's serum to create an army of vampires in his home country, Transylvania , and thus conquer the world. After killing him with his ring, he orders the monster to take the passed out Judith to the nearby abandoned church in the city ​​forest , where he has his coffin.

When Dracula tries to bite Judith in the church, he is attacked again by the Frankenstein monster and the ring is removed. The fight brings her out of the church into the forest, where Dracula rips off all parts of the body and ultimately the head of the monster in the blood . However, on the way to his coffin, the sun rises and burns him. Meanwhile, Judith manages to escape the chains and the church and sees Count Dracula in front of the door, crumbling to dust .

Alternative ending

After a long fight between Dracula and the monster, the monster is killed by Dracula's ring and falls to the ground on fire. Dracula then wants to devote himself to Judith and Mike, who are already sitting in the car , but is run over by them and then stabbed to death with a stake. Mike doesn't die in this version and drives towards the sunrise with Judith during the credits .

production

The film, shot in 1969, was only premiered in December 1971 in the USA.

End scene

After filming was completed and screenwriter and producer Samuel M. Sherman took his wife for a walk through a forest near New York City , he stumbled upon an abandoned church. He liked her so much that he took a few pictures of her with his 8mm film camera and showed them to director Al Adamson. He was so excited that he wrote a scene that takes place in the abandoned church and the forest around it and inserted it into the script. However, the budget of the film was not enough to fly in all actors . Only the production team and the indispensable actors Regina Carrol and Zandor Vorkov were available to Al Adamson to shoot the scene in question. Anthony Eisley was doubled by Al Adamson for Mike's now necessary death scene. The Frankenstein Monster was not played by John Bloom, but by George Weiss, a friend of Zandor Vorkovs. The original ending has been replaced with this new one.

criticism

The lexicon of the international film judges: "Kintopp-horror with weird humor and a confused accumulation of disgusting scenes."

Others

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Entries Lon Chaney Jr. and J. Carrol Naish in Kay Weniger's Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films , volume two and volume five
  2. ↑ Dracula's blood wedding with Frankenstein. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used