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Overrated and overhyped

Memorable, crazy movie

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

10 Stars for the hokiest and silliest monster flick ever. I love every second of it from the old Universal sets to Chaney and Naish in their final film roles even though Lon was so sick with throat cancer he could not speak at the time. It does not get much funner than this, folks. Russ Tamblyn looked and probably was stoned out of his mind when he gets brained by Big Junior Lon who was drunk himself as always. Make yourselves a bag of buttered popcorn and grab a liter of your favorite soft drink and enjoy a classic in schlock. A knock it out of the park for the late great Al Adamson for us Drive In fans. Enjoy horror lovers!

Sometimes it's difficult to rate low budget horror that can be terrible, yet you can't pull your eyes away from it. Dracula vs. Frankenstein attempts a stab at greatness on a shoestring budget with classic monsters battling in a psychedelic background. J. Carroll Nash and Lon Chaney Jr. add some legitimacy to a no-name cast, although Chaney is starting to look pretty rough by 1971. The echo effect on Zander Vorkov's voice as Dracula is priceless! Dracula vs Frankenstein would be great as a grade Z double bill with other great horror failures of the era like the Astro Zombies or maybe The Curse of Bigfoot!

Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.With a cast like Lon Chaney, Russ Tamblyn, Greydon Clark and Forry Ackerman, you might expect great things. I did. And you have b-movie director Al Adamson running the show, so you know any greatness is going to be offset by low-budget shenanigans. But you probably do not expect a turnout this bad.The film is riddled with problems -- an inconsistent plot (including a biker gang that has no connection to the rest of the story), a long filming schedule (causing people to age before our eyes)... and some unnecessary singing and dancing.Clean this picture up, edit out the unnecessary stuff, and you will then have a film. Still a bad film, but at least one that makes sense.

I'm not sure how many words the IMDb allows viewers to prattle on in their reviews, but whatever that word limit is, it is not enough by 1/10th to adequately describe the awfulness that is Al Adamson's "Dracula vs. Frankenstein." It's hard to decide where to begin even; every aspect of this picture is so singularly wretched. Howzabout the acting, for starters? When Regina Carrol turns out to be the most accomplished thespian in a film, you know you're in for a rough ride! J. Carrol Naish (the other Carrol in the picture) stars as the wheelchair-bound Dr. Frankenstein, masquerading as the owner of a carnival freak show. He is involved, along with mute idiot Lon Chaney, Jr., in experiments involving the decapitation of young women in order to procure a special type of fright-induced blood. (Don't worry...it didn't make much sense to me either.) This was both Naish's and Chaney's final film; what a sad way to go out. Naish looks terrible, and performs as if he were on the edge of senility. Chaney has no lines whatsoever, and merely stands around slavering and acting like a dodo. A ridiculous-looking Dracula pops up, wearing more painted-on facial hair than Groucho, and convinces the good Dr. to dig up the old Frankenstein monster, which turns out to have a face like a mass of festering mushrooms. Russ Tamblyn gets thrown into the mix as well, playing a nasty biker. From the heights of "West Side Story" in '61 to this "West Coast Gory" in '71; he should have killed his agent! So we have, in this film, horrible, borderline embarrassing acting; a ridiculous story that makes little to no sense whatsoever; Regina getting dosed with LSD and flouncing around a biker bar; atrocious lighting; inept direction; god-awful effects; AND a horrendous musical number or two. Is it any wonder that this picture is considered a camp classic? Besides one or two good screams from Regina and an atmospheric woods walk, this picture offers little besides the camp.