O2D Once again they ignore the back story and the previous movie. I assume that's going to happen a lot, so I better get use to it. For some reason they decided to have Bela Lugosi play the monster and Lon Cheney play the Wolf Man even though Cheney played the monster in the previous movie. I just found out that this is also a sequel to The Wolf Man, which is silly. How can one movie be a sequel to two movies? I know they did it again later with I Was A Teenage Werewolf and I Was A Teenage Frankenstein being followed by How To Make A Monster. Unfortunately I haven't seen either of the Wolf Man movies but I don't really think that affected my enjoyment of either movie. Anyway, once again Europe is full of people with American accents and I always find that odd. So the Wolf Man comes back to life and kills two people and those murders are never mentioned. The police call the town he is from and they say he died but never mention he was a werewolf. Seeing The Wolf Man may have helped me there. The Wolf Man escapes and travels all of Europe until he finds some old gypsy woman. It literally takes thirty seconds of movie time. They go to where Frankenstein was from(I still have no idea where that is.) and he easily finds the monster. Then even though he has been dead for four years and just traveled across Europe on foot, he shows up to meet the Baroness in a brand new suit. This movie is a bit of a mess but I've seen worse. Three stars.

Eric Stevenson Well, I have to admit that it's interesting to see what the first ever film crossover was and it did more or less set the basis for future crossovers. And well, I was kind of disappointed by this. It's mostly because the actual fight between Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf Man is only three minutes long! When you have an entire movie being set up for that, it's a major strike against it. I still appreciate how they are setting up the story. I like how they are connecting these two popular franchises. "Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein" had a much bigger and better monster brawl.I still appreciate this movie bringing these two characters together and coming up with a single universe. It's just been done better many other times. I also think it was kind of weird how the scientist just seemed to go crazy at the end. Well, they didn't technically get the title wrong. A daughter of Frankenstein did in fact meet up with the Wolf Man. I'm sorry, but the actual interaction between the main characters was too small! I can still appreciate how the plot is good. There's just too much talking. It's still okay for what it is. **1/2

mark.waltz The brain of Igor (not Eyegor) had been implanted in the monster's body and Bela Lugosi's voice came out of him, but the monster was suddenly blind. Now the monster is back, and he's got Lugosi's face, the eye sight is back, but the voice is gone. Such is dramatic license for a Universal programmer. But he's not alone in the world of "the back from the dead". He's got company with the wolf man (Mom Chaney Jr.), repeating his role after playing Frankenstein's monster one time. Back to aide him is gypsy woman Maria Ouspenskaya, and all she can really do is pray for his soul.The fifth entry of the Frankenstein saga is the second of the wolf man saga, so it's like tying together Snow White and Cinderella. However, it's much grimmer than those fairy tales, and there's obviously no happily ever after until a writer figures out how to resurrect the monsters. Still chilling for the atmosphere, it's classic horror at its medium. Chaney, not really a great actor, is actually pretty decent here, but Lugosi has little to do. Minus his powerful Hungarian voice, he's practically an extra. References to Bela from "The Wolf Man" and Igor tie him in, but it's a far cry from what he was able to show he could do when he played Igor in the two previous films. This time, the Frankenstein heir is a woman, Ilona Massey, and the doctor is Patric Knowles. The story surrounds the wolf man, aka Larry Talbot, more than it does the Frankensteins, taking nearly half an hour to get to the castle. Lugosi does get to growl a bit, and his long arms add to the effectiveness of his casting. Another horror icon, Lionel Atwill, adds authority as the mayor. Ouspenskaya disappears mysteriously after just a couple of scenes. A big musical number comes out of nowhere, adding a touch of silliness to distract from the horror. It was only with the last two entries in the series, not counting the Abbott and Costello spoof, that real mediocrity set in.

classicsoncall Amidst all the character/actor flip-flops, only Lon Chaney Jr. and Maria Ouspenskaya reprise their roles from the original 1941 picture, "The Wolf Man". Even there however, a concession had to be made from the prior movie in the series, as Chaney gave up the Frankenstein Monster role from "The Ghost of Frankenstein" to Bela Lugosi, who to my thinking should have been left content as the iconic screen Dracula. Oh well, Universal had a winning combination with it's monster line-up so they had to find a way to keep it going.It was interesting for me catching 'Ghost' and 'Meets' back to back as I was able to make the observation that Chaney started out in his Frankenstein role of the prior film looking a lot like Boris Karloff's creature, and then coming around to resemble himself more and more as the picture progressed. Here, the Monster bears Lugosi's appearance right from the outset. He probably should have studied Karloff's gait in the original "Frankenstein" film because he looked a bit unsteady from scene to scene.So the full moon treatment gets a pretty good workout in this picture with an improved looking Wolf Man to go up against The Monster. For the Forties, I always thought the film makers did a pretty good job with the transformation that Chaney went through to become his own iconic character. His tussle with the Monster was actually a pretty lively affair, leading to my conclusion that it had to be a couple of stunt doubles taking some of those nasty bumps as they bounced off the lab equipment in the castle basement ruins. They made it look pretty wild.My thanks to Turner Classics for their annual October revisit to this series, as I managed to record this film, "Ghost of Frankenstein" and "House of Frankenstein" all on the same night, leaving me to watch them at my leisure. What better way is there to gear up for Halloween?