ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) **1/2 Lou Costello
thinks he's quite the ladies' man: he has dates with two hot babes
for the masquerade ball. Babe #1 turns out to be in cahoots with Bela
Lugosi, and after he bites her neck she can barely stay awake for
Costello's prattle. Babe #2 is even worse, an insurance fraud
investigator. Babe #1 ties Costello up and tries to take out his
brain to put it in in Frankenstein, but fails in the face of
intervention by The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr. stumbling unmightily
over bombastic proclamations). Babe #2 runs off with a lab
technician. Lugosi is tremendous as always, injecting life into the
most torpid lines, and the script writers did him the favour of
naming Costello "Wilbur." I know he doesn't exist, and you know he
doesn't exist, but does Dracula know he doesn't exist? The House of
Horrors looks a lot like the U.S. House of Representatives on C-SPAN.
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