DRACULA, PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN (1972)

[The Burgomaster]

This is another lousy Jess Franco horror movie.  It's sort of confusing and dumb, but it has something to do with Dr. Frankenstein reviving Dracula so that he can bite people and create a race of vampires?????  The Frankenstein monster (whose stitches and scars look like they were drawn on his face with a Sharpie) lurks around and eventually fights a werewolf (whose nose looks like a piece of brown clay).  There is also a cliche hunchback assistant and some cheap rubber bats.  The widescreen DVD (from Image) is in Spanish with English subtitles.  The opening credits use the original Spanish title, DRACULA CONTRA FRANKENSTEIN.  This movie is also known as THE SCREAMING DEAD and DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN.  I rate it a pitiful 3 on a scale of 1 to 10.

[RCMerchant]

 This was the most disturbing part of the movie for me...did they drowned that poor bat?

  [youtube=425,350] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAEHzts4vzI

[Javakoala]

This is a movie that I sat down no less than four times to watch. I kept falling asleep, would wake up, find the whole thing confusing and gave up, figuring I was missing something important while asleep.

WRONG!!! I was recently telling my girlfriend that Seven Deaths In A Cat's Eye had a lot of the zoom in camera work that The Screaming Dead had, so I pulled the thing and and MADE myself stay awake. Okay, I cheated and fast forwarded through the last 40 minutes. But I realized that the film wasn't confusing because I fell asleep. It just sucked.

The camera work made me motion sick. The acting....poor choice of words there, SUCKED!! I love awful films. I truly do, but things like this movie make me wonder what in hell is wrong with me.

Ah, but who am I to talk?  This weekend, I watched Ishtar and Dirty Dancing and enjoyed both of them.

[Newt]

Sorry to hear that.  The concept, served with the right kind of cheese, had potential.
Besides, I am strangely fond of rubber bats.  They can save a bad movie!