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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BorisKarloff was reportedly approached about playing Frankenstein's Monster, but he declined, so instead Glenn Strange reprises his role as the Frankenstein Monster from ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' and ''Film/HouseOfDracula''..

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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BorisKarloff was reportedly approached about playing Frankenstein's Monster, but he declined, so instead Glenn Strange reprises his role as the Frankenstein Monster from ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' and ''Film/HouseOfDracula''..''Film/HouseOfDracula''.
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** Creator/LonChaneyJ filled in as the Monster for one scene, reprising his role from ''Film/TheGhostOfFrankenstein''.

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** Creator/LonChaneyJ Creator/LonChaneyJr filled in as the Monster for one scene, reprising his role from ''Film/TheGhostOfFrankenstein''.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BorisKarloff was reportedly approached about playing Frankenstein's Monster, but he declined.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BorisKarloff was reportedly approached about playing Frankenstein's Monster, but he declined.declined, so instead Glenn Strange reprises his role as the Frankenstein Monster from ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' and ''Film/HouseOfDracula''..



* RoleReprise: While he played other vampires, this is the only time that Creator/BelaLugosi explicitly recreated the role that he made famous in ''Film/Dracula1931''.
** Glenn Strange reprises his role as the Frankenstein Monster from ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' and ''Film/HouseOfDracula''.
** Creator/LonChaneyJr returns for the last time as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man. He also filled in as the Monster for one scene, reprising his role from ''Film/TheGhostOfFrankenstein''.

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* RoleReprise: RoleReprise:
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While he played other vampires, this is the only time that Creator/BelaLugosi explicitly recreated the role that he made famous in ''Film/Dracula1931''.
** Glenn Strange reprises his role as the Frankenstein Monster from ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' and ''Film/HouseOfDracula''.
** Creator/LonChaneyJr returns for the last time as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man. He also
Creator/LonChaneyJ filled in as the Monster for one scene, reprising his role from ''Film/TheGhostOfFrankenstein''.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Kharis the Mummy was originally going to be included in the cast of monsters, but that idea was eventually dropped. A Egyptian Sarcophagus appears in the movie as a possible nod to this.

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Kharis the Mummy was originally going to be included in the cast of monsters, but that idea was eventually dropped. A Egyptian Sarcophagus appears in the movie as a possible nod to this.this.
** An early version of the script had the titular duo as workers on a ship transporting the dormant bodies of the monsters, who would've been revived when the boys spill their lunch, which just so happened to contain the [[AssPull newly-established]] combination of common kitchen ingredients that would do so, all over them.
** The scene where Dracula psychically lures Wilbur back into the castle was initally scripted to have Wilbur defiantly sit down on a rock and refuse to move, only for the rock take off into the castle with him along for the ride.
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* DawsonCasting: Wilbur states that he is thirty in one scene, but Lou Costello was forty-two at the time.
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* ActingForTwo: Due to Glenn Stranger having injured his ankle, Creator/LonChaneyJr played the Monster during the scene where he throws Sandra through the window.

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* ActingForTwo: Due to Glenn Stranger Strange having injured his ankle, Creator/LonChaneyJr played the Monster during the scene where he throws Sandra through the window.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BorisKarloff was reportedly approached about playing The Monster, but he declined.

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* TheOtherDarrin: Creator/BorisKarloff was reportedly approached about playing The Frankenstein's Monster, but he declined.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Mummy was originally going to be included in the cast of monsters, but that idea was eventually dropped. A Egyptian Sarcophagus appears in the movie as a possible nod to this.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The Kharis the Mummy was originally going to be included in the cast of monsters, but that idea was eventually dropped. A Egyptian Sarcophagus appears in the movie as a possible nod to this.

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