31 Horror Reviews #1 - Dracula vs Frankenstein

October is here Friends and Neighbors! To celebrate, we will be reviewing 31 horror movies in a row. Yeah that means one per day. Stay tuned folks!
"Dracula vs Frankenstein"
Okay, wow this is a terrible film. This 1971 flick features some heavily cool folks though. Angelo Rossitto is featured in a perfect role, as a barker at a freak show. Also this movie features the final horror appearance of Lon Chaney Jr. Though he performs amazingly given the material, it is clear how the cancer had ravaged his body. 
So these hippies come along and discover a mad doctor who is killing people to perform experiments on them. Multiple killings and events occur and finally the police show up to kill everybody. The heroine is the only one to escape. End. 
But wait...that was the original movie. Filmed in 1969 Somebody, apparently in a drunken moment, made the call to add Dracula and the Frankenstein monster. So they film some new scenes in 1971 with a clearly aged cast and mix them in to create an even more incoherent story. 
So, Dracula shows up. Apparently Dracula here is David Schwimmer's dad, sporting a Jew-fro and bad pancake makeup in his face. He talks with an echo and blinks as he talks. Dracula wants to use the Frankenstein monster to kill people and make Dracula invincible. However, the monster looks like terrible. He sure is strong- can lift a moose, but he appears to have been hit in the face with about 10 baseballs. 
So somehow Dracula gets mad, incinerated things with his ring and tries to sacrifice the girl... For no reason...until the monster of course revolts. They fight in the woods and die. Lame 
So on the Bat-scale I give it a 2/10. 2 is only because of the two star cameos. 
Come back tomorrow!
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