Line #30 Film/HouseOfFrankenstein


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3	->''THE DEVIL'S BROOD! All the screen's Titans of Terror - together in the greatest of all SCREEN SENSATIONS!''
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5	''House of Frankenstein'' is a ''Franchise/UniversalHorror'' MonsterMash movie from the year 1944.
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7	Few years have passed [[Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan after the brawl]] between the FrankensteinsMonster and the WolfMan. The film opens with MadScientist Dr. Niemann (Creator/BorisKarloff) escaping a prison, where he was sent after experimenting with the dead, with a hunchbacked murderer Daniel. After taking over a travelling "Chamber of Horrors", Niemann sets out to do the first thing on his mind: {{Revenge}} upon those who sent him away for fifteen years.
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9	He finds that the main event of his newly acquired sideshow, {{Dracula}}'s (Creator/JohnCarradine) staked corpse, is pretty much real and sends him after his first target in the town of Riegelberg. After that business, Niemann sets out to village of Frankenstein ([[RetCon previously known as Vasaria]]) and finds the bodies of Larry Talbot (Creator/LonChaneyJr) and the Monster (Glenn Strange) [[HumanPopsicle encased in ice]] under the remains of Ludwig Frankenstein's sanitarium. He decides to revive the Monster and promises to help Lawrence Talbot on breaking his werewolf curse to get his assistance. Then they set out to Niemann's old place in Visaria (not to be confused with the aforementioned Vasaria) to begin the experimenting...
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11	More MonsterMash would eventually be provided by the next sequel, ''Film/HouseOfDracula''. In 1997, NBC created a mini-series remake of the movie with the backing of Universal. See ''Series/HouseOfFrankenstein1997'' for more information.
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14	!!Upon entering the House of Frankenstein, you'll find:
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16	* ArcWords: A certain poem is repeated one and half times. [[Film/TheWolfMan1941 You know the one.]]
17	* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: A full moon occurs and Larry turns into the Wolfman. The very next day Larry says that that night is also a full moon and that's why he needed the surgery performed that day. After a full moon, it should be 29 days until the next one.
18	* BreakingTheBonds: The Monster, upon seeing the man who brought him back to full power being almost strangled to death, breaks free from the [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable operating table that he was strapped to]] for vengeance against the perpetrator.
19	* ChaseScene: After Dracula kidnaps Rita and races away on his carriage, her husband and the police chase after him on horseback.
20	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: It's probably easier to list the characters Niemann ''doesn't'' betray (or at least plan to).
21	* {{Crossover}}: Upping the ante from the previous film, Dracula is now added to the group, retroactively expanding a shared universe that now included ''Film/Dracula1931'', ''Film/Frankenstein1931'', ''Film/DraculasDaughter'', ''Film/SonOfDracula'', ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'', ''Film/SonOfFrankenstein'', ''Film/TheGhostOfFrankenstein'', ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'' and ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan''.
22	* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Lampini stole Dracula's staked remains from his castle at the Carpathians, and now has him as his main attraction in his "Chamber of Horrors".
23	* DeadPersonImpersonation: Dr. Niemann has Daniel kill Lampini, and takes his place as the owner of "Lampini's Chamber of Horrors".
24	* DestinationDefenestration: The Monster throws [[spoiler:Daniel, his tormentor and the attempted murderer of his reviver Dr. Niemann,]] out of a window to his doom.
25	* DramaticThunder: When the guard the Prison holding Dr. Niemann tells him that he'll never get out, he answers that he will, which is then punctuated by a flash of lightning [[InstantThunder combined with thunder]].
26	* ForScience: No other motivation for Dr. Niemann's attempt at trying to transplant a human brain into a dog is given beyond this.
27	* HarmlessFreezing: Both the Monster and the Wolf Man are found [[HumanPopsicle enclosed in ice]], but only Wolf Man is unharmed by it. The Monster has been damaged by freezing and its restoration is one of Dr. Niemann's goals.
28	* HostileWeather: The storm in the beginning of the film, which eventually helps Dr. Niemann and Daniel to escape from prison thanks to a convenient lightning strike breaking its walls.
29	* HotGypsyWoman: Ilonka. Daniel's certainly smitten.
30	* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: Talbot's first onscreen werewolf transformation is shown through this.
31	* TheIgor: Daniel, a hunchback murderer who joins Dr. Niemann in hopes that he'll give him [[WorkingForABodyUpgrade a better body someday]].
32	* LoveTriangle: Daniel loves Ilonka, Ilonka loves Larry and Larry only [[DeathSeeker wants to die]].
33	* MindControlDevice: Dracula's ring, which when placed on Rita turns her into a willing would-be victim for him.
34	* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Ilonka finally works up the courage to shoot the Wolf Man with a silver bullet (powered by true love, no less), but the Wolf Man fatally mauls her in the process, and [[TogetherInDeath she dies embracing Larry's body]].]]
35	* NoImmortalInertia: After Dracula is exposed to the sunlight, he turns into a skeleton that he started out as in the film.
36	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Dracula can apparently only feed in bat form, and is revived after the stake is removed from his skeleton.
37	* PietaPlagiarism: Daniel carries [[spoiler:Ilonka's corpse back to Dr. Niemann's laboratory after she is killed by Talbot]] in this manner.
38	* QuicksandSucks: The angry mob searching Dr. Niemann's property purposely drive the Monster carrying him into a bog, which then swallows them both.
39	* RampageFromANail: Inverted. Removing the stake from the heart area of Dracula's skeleton lets him instantly re-form and go on a "rampage" of bloodsucking.
40	%%* UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}: Ilonka.
41	%%* ScreamDiscretionShot
42	* ShadowDiscretionShot:
43	** Dracula's transformation into a bat and subsequent bloodsucking from Burgomaster Hussman is shown through shadows.
44	** [[spoiler:Daniel's attack on Niemann]] is seen mostly through shadows on a wall, with reactions from the Monster (who is StrappedToAnOperatingTable) in the same frame.
45	* ShoutOut: An athletic hunchbacked man falling for a UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} woman? [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Why does that sound familiar]]? [[spoiler: Not only that, but the Romani woman's corpse is entangled with the body of an unrequited lover (although in this case, it's unrequited on her end, rather than his). Even Daniel, jealous as he is, seems reluctant to separate them.]]
46	* SilverBullet: After having her fears confirmed, Ilonka makes one to release Larry from his curse.
47	%%* SoundOnlyDeath
48	* ATasteOfTheLash:
49	** During Ilonka's introductory sequence, her abusive business partner throws her to the ground and beats her with a whip--until Daniel turns the tables on him.
50	** Later, Daniel takes his frustrations on the weakened Monster, who is currently StrappedToAnOperatingTable, with a belt. Which has been proven to be [[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} such a good idea in the past]].
51	* TorchesAndPitchforks: A mob is organized in Visaria after Larry's werewolf killings. They eventually find their way to Dr. Niemann's place for a climax.
52	* TrailersAlwaysLie: We were promised that this MonsterMash would have {{Dracula}}, WolfMan, and FrankensteinsMonster all together. While they're all in the movie, Drac dies before Frank and Wolfy even show up, and the only scenes shared by the latter two are while Frank's in a coma and Wolfy is in his human form.
53	* TransformationSequence: Talbot's final transformation into a werewolf on front of a mirror, shown through the traditional dissolving cuts.
54	%%* {{Uberwald}}
55	* WackyWaysideTribe: The entire subplot involving Dracula, all of which happens within twenty minutes and has no bearing on (or is even mentioned during) the rest of the film.
56	* TheXOfY: The film's title.
57	* YankTheDogsChain: The MadScientist villain keeps promising to cure Talbot, but has no intention of doing so and both Talbot and his love interest end up dead because of it.
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