McDougal (Frank Ferguson) runs a house of horrors, and as its main attractions he has bought DRacula (Bela Lugosi) and Frankenstein's monster (Glenn Strange). However, both the vampire and the monster are not really dead, and they soon escape the house of horrors ... and only Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney jr), who has the habit of turning into a werewolf every full moon (and for some reason it's full moon every night in this film), knows about it and knows they have to be stopped.

Actually it turns out that Dracula has the plan of giving the Frankenstein monster a new brain (god knows why) with the help of Doctor Sandra Mornay (L�nore Aubert) - which is where baggage carriers Chick (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur (Lou Costello) are thrown into the story because Doc Sandra thinks that dim-witted Wilbur has the perfect brain for such an operation. Much to and fro and typical Abbott & Costello comedy follows until in the end, Chick and Wilbur and defeat the monsters and Doc Sandra too with the help of the Wolf Man - who perishes in the proceedings -, lovely home office investigator Joan (Jane Randolph) and Doc Sandra's assistant Stevens (Charles Bradstreet) - who has grown quite suspicous of Doc Sandra and whom officer Joan eventually becomes attached to.

Vincent Price (or rather his voice) has an amusing cameo as the Invisible Man at the end of the movie.

After the direction Universal's all-star monster movies were taking, it was only a question of time before the series would take a turn towards all-out comedy, as it did with Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Of course, the film is not the comical triumph it could have been, the rather lame comedy of Abbott & Costello, which mainly relies on tired slapstick routines and old jokes that are often even repeated more than once in this film alone sees to that - but somehow it is refreshing to see Universal's established horror personnel (Lon Chaney jr, Bela Lugosi - returning to Dracula after 17 years - and Glenn Strange) playing their roles straight in a comedy such as this, plus the authentic Universal horror sets and low-key lighting are doing wonders to make the film more enjoyable than it actually is (which, come to think of it, doesn't really make sense).

So if you like old-fashioned horror Universal-style and can overlook the tired shenanigans of Abbott & Costello - which is hard some times - you will probably enjoy this film.

review � by Mike Haberfelner

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