Reading Chainsaw Midget's review of FRANKNSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN (1943) made me think...what are your favorite monster team ups? Here are my top 10- for various reasons.
1. FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943). It's Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi.
2. HOUSE OF DRACULA (1945)- Dracula, the Monster, and Lon Chaney back. Plus a Mr. Hyde mad doctor and a hunchback nurse, just because- why not?
3. DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968)- All Toho monsters in one film!
4. DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN (1971)- yeah- it's inane and Dracula has a Mike Brady perm. But I love it.
5. the WEWEWOLF VS THE VAMPIRE WOMAN (1973)- It's bloody, and Paul Naschy's vicous werewolf.
6. KING KONG ESCAPES (1966)- I saw this on Halloween in 1972 at a matinee. Got a soft spot for it.
7. the ROBOT VS THE AZTEC MUMMY (1958)- Dont ask. I couldn't explain.
8. WAR OF THE GARGANTUA's (1966)- I can't explain. They words get stuck in my throat.
9. HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER (1958)- Teenage werewolf and teenage Frankenstein! It's AIP's FRANKENSTEIN MEET THE WOLF MAN!
10. ASSIGNMENT: TERROR (1970)- An obscure Spanish film with the Wolf Man (Paul Naschy). the Frankenstein monster, Dracula, and a mummy! Controlled by invaders from space! Yeh. Weirdly ingrossing.
Anyway- any Monster Mash films you hold dear?
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Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Funny, & the monsters are as well handled vas any of Universal's more serious movies.
I like your list, even though there's a few on there I haven't seen (but have been meaning to.)
I'd also like to add...
The Monster Squad
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Van Helsing
I also have a soft spot of the 90s House of Frankenstein made for TV movie, which had the monster, a vampire, and a werewolf.
and add Cabin in the Woods if it counts.
Quote from: pacman000 on October 20, 2025, 10:49:20 AMAbbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Funny, & the monsters are as well handled vas any of Universal's more serious movies.
How did I forget that?!?!
Also-
YOG, MONSTER FROM SPACE (1970)- which includes giant seafood! and-
SANTO AND THE BLUE DEMON VS THE MONSTERS (1970) which had the Frankenstein Monster, Dracula, a wolfman, a mummy, a cyclops, a vampiress, and a bald midget!
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I just reviewed THE MUMMUY AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKALS in the "Recent/Bad" thread. It's a Mummy v. Wolfman movie but they insist on the Wolfman being a Jackal-Man, or a Jackal-Man as John Carradine pronounces it. He still looks and acts like a Wolfman except he's got three fingers on each hand instead of five. Their fight isn't that great but the film is a good absurd companion piece to DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (both films co-star Anthony Eisley).
Raw Force
Ninjas vs zombies in one movie 😄🧟�♂️
On the lighter side:
Munster, Go Home!
The Munsters' Revenge
Scooby Doo & the Ghoul School
Hotel Transylvania is a bit loud & silly, but funny.
If we move away a bit from classic Universal style monsters, "Hocus Pocus" features three witches, a talking cat, & a zombie.
THE HOWLING 4: THE ORIGINAL NIGHTMARE
Homicidal nuns and melting werewolves 😳😳
Frankenstein Conquers The World - although it feels like cheating since Baragon wasn't in anything before that as far as I know. Destroy All Monsters and the original Godzilla vs. King Kong are good, too, as far as classic Toho crossovers (the Godzilla vs. King Kong American remake wasn't bad by my standards either, or at least not compared to other current Hollywood fare), but Ghidorah, The Three Headed Monster also assembles a bunch of big star monsters... and it's the best of the Toho films I've listed here.
Monster Squad is great, too. Spookies is one of my all-time favourites - it might be cheating since, as far as I know, almost none of the monsters are big names themselves; instead it's a vast array of mostly original monsters.
The Cabin In The Woods was good, too!
Oh, also Viy.
How to Make a Monster (1958) - cameos by actors dressed up as I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) used by a make-up artist out for revenge.
The monster mash of my childhood and the 80's.
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Also this has been better then most of Universal's efforts to bring back the monsters.