Month: February 2017

Farewell, sir. You will very much be missed. Mr. Pullman (ARGGGH) Paxton made a lot of genre films, and I'm sure we're all generally conversant with them. However, his best performance might be in the extremely good if very hard edged crime film One False Move, in which Paxton plays a Southern small town…

Despite being called (here, at least) Dracula vs Frankenstein, the film's monster battle involved neither of them. It was Paul Naschy's Werewolf vs the film's Mummy, probably because that was a rare monster the Werewolf hadn't fought yet. I know he fought a Yeti at one point. Needless to say, the Mummy gets creamed…

We've featured Waldemar Daninsky before, but none of the films seem to be in continuity with each other, so I guess he's sort of a different monster each time. Anyway, he's the star of this film (along with Michael Rennie) so it seemed churlish to leave him out.

A rather run of the mill Dracula (and not even Dracula in the Euro version, I think), but still head and shoulders above the other two we've featured lately. Does he actually fight the Frankenstein Monster? I don't recall the film that well, but I don't think so. Franco's film is clearly the worst…

This Spanish/German/Italian co-production is not nearly as good as you'd hope it to be, although it has it's points. Amusingly, the plot is not that far off from Plan 9 from Outer Space's, although it's not quite as close as was Invisible Invaders. Michael Rennie (!) sadly plays the lead alien. There is a…

Sorry about Friday, I had Internet issues. Anyway, this ends our Jess Franco DvF stuff, although there were some rather generic pretty girl vampires. Again, though, this is a HIGHLY tedious film. Well, it's a Jeff Franco film. So obviously.

Wow, that was my exact expression watching this film. (It's the stitches drawn on with an eyebrow pencil that really sell this design.)

The early '70s were a fecund period for films called Dracula vs Frankenstein. This one, by Jess Franco (uh oh) is more aptly summed up by it's alternate title, Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein. Dracula is zombiefied by Dr. Frankenstein (so the title is correct for once) early on and never break free to contest…

For some reason this shot was used a lot for publicity purposes.