Released: 1971 Director: Al Adamson (Psycho a Go-Go, Satan's Sadists). Starring: Lon Chaney, Regina Carrol, J. Carrol Naish, Russ Tamblyn, Zandor Vorkov.
The synopsis goes something like this ...
Judi (Carrol), a Las Vegas singer, travels to California to search for her missing sister, who has been killed by Groton (played by horror veteran 'The Wolfman' Chaney, Jr.), a henchman for the last member of the Frankenstein family, Dr Duryea (Naish). Enter Count Dracula (Vorkov), who promises to help the doctor revive the original Frankenstein monster in exchange for blood. Unfortunately, the monster just goes bananas when he is resurrected, and it's a battle to the death for these horror-movie warhorses.
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Something to sink your teeth into ...
It was originally intended to have Dracula turn Frankenstein's Monster into a vampire, but the idea was dumped when the fangs kept falling out of Bloom's mouth, which he couldn't keep in due to his heavy makeup. Also, the ailing 74-year-old Naish could no longer remember dialogue, so he read it off cue cards during filming. However, he had only one real eye, so in his dialogue closeups you can see one eye moving back and forth, reading the lines, while the other eye remains fixed in position. Creepy.