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''House of Dracula'' is a Franchise/UniversalHorror film from the year 1945.

After the events of ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'', the yet again revived WolfMan Larry Talbot is still seeking release from his condition. He ends up in Dr. Edelmann's place for treatment and accidentally finds FrankensteinsMonster in the caves under the house. Count {{Dracula}} is also there to find a cure for vampirism, but it is only a ruse to get near the nurse Morelle, upon whom he has set his sights.

This film is also notable for having a female hunchback assistant, though she is treated as a sympathetic and kind character (and is quite pretty to boot).

The film was the last serious MonsterMash film for Creator/{{Universal}}. Next up, the comedy duo Creator/AbbottAndCostello [[Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein would stumble upon the horrors of the studio]].
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!!Witness the tropes which pile the horror upon horror!

* BigDamnHeroes: Larry shows up just in time to save the day.
* BungledSuicide: Upon hearing that the supposed procedure to cure him takes some time, Larry decides that one more transformation to a werewolf is too much, and attempts to kill himself by leaping off a cliff. He survives and ends up in cave where the Monster is.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The bog in which the Monster drowned in ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' conveniently leads to the underground caves under Dr. Edelmann's place.
* TheCorruption: Courtesy of the blood of {{Dracula}}, Doctor Edelman is changed from [[JekyllAndHyde a noble, devout, and compassionate scientist into a mad killer]].
* CoversAlwaysLie: The poster on the page image seems to imply "the Hunchback" is [[ValuesDissonance one of the monsters]] in the film. She's not, not even close- just a lab assistant and supporting character.
* DoingInTheWizard:
** According to Dr. Endelmann, Talbot's lycanthropy is a case of self-hypnosis combined with his skulls applying pressure to his brain. After easing the said pressure with experimental surgery [[spoiler:Talbot is cured! [[AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein At least until the next movie]].]]
** He also thinks he's discovered a scientific basis for the nature of vampirism. Sadly, his attempt at a cure doesn't end well for him.
* EvilDetectingDog: Dr. Edelmann's cat hisses at Dracula, and later at the doctor himself after he is corrupted by Dracula's blood.
* {{Expy}}: After Dracula gives Dr. Edelmann his blood, he becomes one of JekyllAndHyde.
* ForScience: Averted initially. After finding the Monster, Dr. Edelmann attempts to power up the Monster. Nina talks him out of it, reminding him that the Monster is too dangerous to be revived. But once his evil side takes control, he restores him into full power and strangles Nina who tries to intervene.
* HopeSpot: Out of five movies, this is the only one that ends well for poor Larry Talbot (yes, by Talbot standards being forced to shoot the man who cured your nightmarish curse to prevent him from suffering the same fate constitutes ending well). He's cured, and he has a love interest. By [[Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein the sequel]] though, he's relapsed, and she's nowhere to be found. Probably dead. (Of course, this is assuming the next movie is in continuity with this one).
* HospitalHottie: And in truly subversive and original twist, one of them is TheIgor! Okay, well, technically, she's Dr. Edelmann's hunchbacked original assistant. But she's still a rather lovely and compassionate woman.
* MadScientist: Dr. Edelmann's evil side, who revives the Monster just so he can learn the secret to immortality.
* MissingReflection: Dracula casts no reflection to a mirror, nor does the evilized Dr. Edelmann.
* NegativeContinuity: Drac and Talbot are alive and well after the previous film killed them off, and Talbot either doesn't remember or doesn't bother mentioning that he's already met the Frankenstein monster twice.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Dracula's blood can apparently make normal people completely amoral.
* RecycledPremise: Quite a lot of ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'' gets reused in this script. Madman with a hunchbacked assistant wants to unravel Frankenstein's work, check [[note]] At least in this one, he doesn't ''start'' as a madman, though [[/note]]. Talbot hopes mad science is the key to curing or killing himself, check. Frankenstein monster discovered in hibernation under castle, check. Dracula dies before Act Three, check.
* RuleOfSymbolism: When Dr. Edelmann locates Talbot in his cave after [[BungledSuicide surviving his leap off the cliff]], the latter is (literally and figuratively) in a dark place. But with some encouragement that he will be cured before the next full moon, Dr. Edelmann helps Talbot leave his cave and step into a (again, literal and figurative) ray of hope.
%%* ScreamingWoman
* ShadowDiscretionShot: Dracula's transformation from a bat to human is depicted by a shadow on a wall.
* TalkingToThemself: Well, it's more a case of "Arguing With Himself [[NightmareDreams In A Nightmare]]", but after [[TheCorruption he gets nailed]] with Dracula's blood, Doctor Edelmann has a dream in which his good and evil selves quarrel over the idea of turning the FrankensteinsMonster loose on the villagers.
* TorchesAndPitchforks: Steinmuhl, upon learning that it was Dr. Edelmann who killed his brother Siegfried, manages to bring the villagers into an uproar about it and storm his hospital just as the Monster is restored to full power.
* TortureCellar: An old one is under Edelmann's house.
%%* TransformationSequence
* UnexplainedRecovery: No attempt is made to explain how Dracula and Talbot survived their onscreen deaths in ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein''. However, earlier movies establish that Talbot revives when his corpse is exposed to moonlight, and a case can be made for his body being found and getting exposed again.
* TheXOfY: The film's title.

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