
House of Frankenstein(1944)
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.


“NEW THRILLS as the Monster stalks again!”
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.

Cedric Hardwicke
Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein / Dr. Henry Frankenstein (ghostly image)

Ralph Bellamy
Erik Ernst

Lionel Atwill
Dr. Bohmer

Bela Lugosi
Ygor

Evelyn Ankers
Elsa Frankenstein

Lon Chaney Jr.
The Frankenstein Monster
Janet Ann Gallow
Cloestine Hussman

Barton Yarborough
Dr. Kettering

Doris Lloyd
Martha the Housekeeper

Leyland Hodgson
Chief Constable
The Ghost of Frankenstein is a horror, science fiction film released in 1942 exploring themes of sequel, black and white, brain transplant, monster movie, family legacy, little girl in peril. Directed by Erle C. Kenton, it stars Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill. Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
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Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.

Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died; however, his monster is found.

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

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Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.