House of Frankenstein (1944)

I had begun watching Son of Dracula, but other than its creepy Southern gothic atmosphere, it didn’t have much going for it, so I decided to try this one out instead. Boris Karloff and his hunchbacked assistant J. Carroll Naish escape from prison and enact revenge on the men who put him there with the help of various classic monsters. The film makes the most of its 70 minute runtime to create an anthology of sorts, introducing each monster and tying them into the main storyline. The only thing that’s even needed to carry the movie is Karloff absolutely perfect as an evil scientist.