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Originally Posted by FryeDwight
You are right...there is so much to do and not nearly enough time to do it all   !!
Despite the silly premise, HOD is a fun little time waster. You do wonder about Dracula, why He changes his mind so quickly-the Assistant wasn't all that!. Also, it's not wise to screw over someone trying to help You, and again a repeat, but a Timex and calendar might have helped Drac finalize his plan.
I really like Lionel Atwill here, even if He is going by route. Sadly, He was sick and I believe You can hear him coughing loudly in the scene where He is interrogating Dr Edelmann and Talbott provides an alibi. |
Yes, I was happy to see Lionel Atwill. If I had him in the cast, I would have rewritten the script to give him a featured part. It was a tad painful to see him wasted in such a small saltless part.
I forgot to mention too, there's two scenes where Dracula is either transforming into a bat or from a bat. Those are the best-looking transformations I've ever seen... and that was 1945.
Let's face it, I think this film would be of most interest to 10-year-olds or the heart of 10-year-olds in horror film fans. To have all these monsters and none of them fight is just being cruel.
I read in wiki that the original script was Wolf Man vs. Dracula and the censors gave it a series of cuts, so it was rewritten many times. Makes you wonder what the original script was like?