![]() My problem personally is with Abbott and Costello, who I find only mildly amusing at best (I accept that opinion is probably not popular, particularly as this film made it into the Reader’s Digest Top 100 funniest films of all time!). ![]() Boris Karloff flatly refused to reprise his monster role, but Bela Lugosi is clearly enjoying himself no end, complete with Dracula cape, and the adorable Lon Chaney Jnr plays it admirably straight as the tormented Wolfman. The outright horror of the 20s and 30s had given way to comic send-ups like this, in which all the old favourite monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman) were reunited on screen once again. It’s certainly of interest to show where horror cinema was at in the 1940s. I kept reading rave reviews about how funny this was, so I gave it a go. ![]() ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948)
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