Dracula's house

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Movie
German title Dracula's house
Original title House of Dracula
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1945
length 67 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Alder C. Kenton
script Edward T. Lowe Jun.
production Joseph Gershenson
George Waggner
music William Lava
camera George Robinson
cut Russell F. Schoengarth
occupation

Dracula's House (original title House of Dracula ) is an American horror film from Universal Studios from 1945 and, after Frankenstein's house, again combines the monsters from Universal's most successful horror classics. Lon Chaney Jr. , John Carradine and Glenn Strange slipped back into their roles as Wolf Man, Count Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster.

One of the advertising lines read: "HORROR UPON HORROR in the HOUSE OF DRACULA".

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The respected Dr. Edelmann runs a special clinic in Vasaria for the supposedly terminally ill. So far, however, he has been able to help every patient. One night he receives a visit from a tall man in elegant evening wear, who introduces himself as Baron Latos and who suffers from an apparently incurable disease: vampirism. The baron is none other than Count Dracula himself, who seeks a way out of his greed for human blood.

At the same time, Lawrence Talbot, still suffering from the curse of the werewolf, registers at Edelmann's clinic, as he places his last hope of a cure in the brilliant scientist. Dr. Edelmann takes care of both patients.

In Dracula's case, he discovers a type of virus that attacks the red blood cells in the blood. He thinks that if you siphoned off the vampire's blood and gave him unpolluted blood instead, he could actually be cured. Dracula has changed his plans in the meantime, however, he is after Miliza, the attractive sister who works for Edelmann, after. He wants to make her his bride for eternity. During a transfusion session, Count Dr. Nobleman a dose of his contaminated blood. Before the Prince of Vampires can make Milizia his equal, Edelmann exposes him to sunlight and the Count dissolves. Only his skeleton and his signet ring remain.

Talbot's case is also proving difficult. In order to free him from his curse, Dr. Edelmann found the spores of an extremely rare plant that can only thrive under complicated environmental conditions. Desperate about his almost hopeless situation, Talbot falls from the cliff on which Edelmann's clinic is located.

An extensive cave system runs beneath the cliffs, as the Doctor discovers while looking for Larry Talbot, who survived the fall. It turns out that the cave is ideal for Talbot's medicinal plant. They also come across Frankenstein's monster, which was apparently washed into the cave by an underground stream. Years ago it was together with the insane Dr. Niemann, whose skeleton is still clutching it, sunk in the swamps of Vasaria.

Dr. Edelmann begins Talbot's treatment, but complications arise. Dracula's poison, which is still flowing in the doctor's veins, begins to work and at times transforms the good-natured scientist into a megalomaniac, malicious sadist, similar to the story of Dr. Jekylls . He manages to free Talbot from his werewolf curse, but under the influence of his evil personality Edelmann commits several murders in nearby Vasaria and works on the resurrection of Frankenstein's monster.

On the night when Edelmann succeeds in bringing the creature back to life, Nina, the hunchbacked nurse, finds out about him and strangles her. At the same time, the residents of Vasaria banded together to form a wild mob, armed with torches and pitchforks, to bring the mad scientist to justice.

They set fire to his clinic, only Larry Talbot and Nurse Miliza manage to escape at the last moment. Dr. Edelmann was killed by the monster and the creature itself finds its end in the sea of ​​flames.

Sequels

The comedy Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein followed in 1948 , in which stars like Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi and Glenn Strange parodied their star roles as Wolf Man, Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster, the last sequel to Universal's Frankenstein series.

DVD release

Dracula's House is available for the first time in German as part of The Monster Legacy DVD Collection .

  • The Monster Legacy DVD Collection , October 14, 2004, Universal Pictures

Others

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  • The story of Dracula's house is based on an older, never realized script, The Wolf Man vs. Dracula . The story could have been a sequel to Frankenstein meets the Wolfman (1943) with Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi are supposed to star. The Wolf Man should have fought Dracula, in the form of a giant monster bat; in addition, Lionel Atwill would have been electrocuted and many villagers should have been killed by the monsters. The script was rejected as too brutal by the people in charge at Universal.
  • In the finale of Dracula's house , for the scene in which Frankenstein's monster is buried under the burning rubble, film material from the finale of Frankenstein Returns (1942), where Lon Chaney Jr. the creature embodied, reused.
  • Dracula's House is the only universal film in which the wolf man Larry Talbot wears a mustache.
  • In House of Dracula is more conspicuous crept goof and inconsistencies one:
    • After Dracula transforms into a bat, the threads on which the dummy is hung are visible .
    • Frankenstein's monster is when Dr. Nobleman finds it after years in the cave, completely preserved - including the clothing - while only the skeleton remains of its creator.
    • When Edelmann turns into a kind of vampire after the blood transfusion with Dracula, his reflection disappears. Later, however, his reflection is visible again in a window pane.
    • After the successful brain operation on the Wolfman Talbot, no scars or other traces of the intervention are visible after removing the bandage.
    • After Edelmann's transformation, for some inexplicable reason, Edelmann is not interested in drinking blood, but mutates into a Jekyll and Hyde character.

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