Horror Extreme Movie Catalog

Don't expect much, and you can actually enjoy this movie! This ended up being the wrong movie, I was looking for a different version of this title, but it was pretty good.

I too remember seeing this on television around 1979 or 80. I was just a kid and to me a title like "Dracula vs.
Frankenstein" conjured images of Glenn Strange battleing John Carradine in glorious Black and White.
Boy was I shocked!!! This is closer to a hippie drug festival than any of Universals monster classics.
It completely shattered my image of what a Frankenstein/Dracula movie could be. My mind was blown but good.
I HATED IT!!! Guess what? 30 years later I love it. I realize now that director Al Adamson had a good excuse
for the state of this film. He made it for no money. Unlike Ed Wood, Adamson had the ability to make inteligent choices in his direction, His only limitations were budget and the culture of the time. The Hippie Dippy 70s were not exactly the best era to be making gothic horror. At least Sam Sherman (producer) and Adamson tried.
And, considering the odds were not just against them, but stabbing them in the gut, they succeded.
Is Al Adamson a better director than Wood? Of course he is. Al had much more adversity to conquer than Ed Wood. Adamson was tryingto make a contemporary hollywood competitor with a time limit and meeting the demands of his distributers. Ed Wood was trying to make 1930's hollywood quality films on his own unending
schedule (sometimes taking years to complete).
Consider this: Ed Wood decided to make an alien invasion film based around footage of Bela Lugosi walking around dressed as Dracula. Thats just completely moronic! He had fotage of Lugosi as Dracula and decided not to make a gothic monster movie but a space age sci fi epic with flying saucers. A tragic waste. He could have made a Dracula movie and had a genuine classic on his hands. Think of it: Lugosi's last film and hes playing Dracula, his greatest role. Sorry folks, Al Adamson was John Huston compared to Wood.