I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Once again they ignore the back story and the previous movie. I assume that's going to happen a lot, so I better get use to it. For some reason they decided to have Bela Lugosi play the monster and Lon Cheney play the Wolf Man even though Cheney played the monster in the previous movie. I just found out that this is also a sequel to The Wolf Man, which is silly. How can one movie be a sequel to two movies? I know they did it again later with I Was A Teenage Werewolf and I Was A Teenage Frankenstein being followed by How To Make A Monster. Unfortunately I haven't seen either of the Wolf Man movies but I don't really think that affected my enjoyment of either movie. Anyway, once again Europe is full of people with American accents and I always find that odd. So the Wolf Man comes back to life and kills two people and those murders are never mentioned. The police call the town he is from and they say he died but never mention he was a werewolf. Seeing The Wolf Man may have helped me there. The Wolf Man escapes and travels all of Europe until he finds some old gypsy woman. It literally takes thirty seconds of movie time. They go to where Frankenstein was from(I still have no idea where that is.) and he easily finds the monster. Then even though he has been dead for four years and just traveled across Europe on foot, he shows up to meet the Baroness in a brand new suit. This movie is a bit of a mess but I've seen worse. Three stars.

Amidst all the character/actor flip-flops, only Lon Chaney Jr. and Maria Ouspenskaya reprise their roles from the original 1941 picture, "The Wolf Man". Even there however, a concession had to be made from the prior movie in the series, as Chaney gave up the Frankenstein Monster role from "The Ghost of Frankenstein" to Bela Lugosi, who to my thinking should have been left content as the iconic screen Dracula. Oh well, Universal had a winning combination with it's monster line-up so they had to find a way to keep it going.It was interesting for me catching 'Ghost' and 'Meets' back to back as I was able to make the observation that Chaney started out in his Frankenstein role of the prior film looking a lot like Boris Karloff's creature, and then coming around to resemble himself more and more as the picture progressed. Here, the Monster bears Lugosi's appearance right from the outset. He probably should have studied Karloff's gait in the original "Frankenstein" film because he looked a bit unsteady from scene to scene.So the full moon treatment gets a pretty good workout in this picture with an improved looking Wolf Man to go up against The Monster. For the Forties, I always thought the film makers did a pretty good job with the transformation that Chaney went through to become his own iconic character. His tussle with the Monster was actually a pretty lively affair, leading to my conclusion that it had to be a couple of stunt doubles taking some of those nasty bumps as they bounced off the lab equipment in the castle basement ruins. They made it look pretty wild.My thanks to Turner Classics for their annual October revisit to this series, as I managed to record this film, "Ghost of Frankenstein" and "House of Frankenstein" all on the same night, leaving me to watch them at my leisure. What better way is there to gear up for Halloween?

In an effort to revitalise their monster franchise at the box offices, Universal hit on the idea of of featuring more than one monster in a movie. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man was to be the first of many such ventures.Lon Chaney Jr is back as Larry Talbot/The Wolf Man, who after being awoken by unsuspecting grave robbers, is once again tortured by his curse and desperately wants an end to his misery. Seeking out the Gypsy woman Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya), the pair of them head off to find Dr. Frankenstein in the hope of finding a solution. He's dead, though, but there's another scientist on hand for help and as the villagers once again take unkindly to someone rekindling old nightmares, while the Frankenstein Monster (Bela Lugosi) is found preserved in ice...It's in effect a sequel to both The Wolf Man and The Ghost of Frankenstein, though as would become the norm, Monster Frank is a bit part player in a film bearing his name. The film is delightfully brisk and with Chaney doing good work as the tortured Talbot - with the relationship between Maleva and himself quite touching - the story carries emotional weight. However, Lugosi doesn't look right for the role of the monster, Patrick Knowles' switcharoo to a mad scientist is ill thought out, while the big smack down finale is sadly all too brief.Nobody in the film, except maybe Chaney, was done any favours in the editing and writing rooms, but it's still a whole bunch of fun for fans of the Universal Monsters series. 6/10

This is a sequel to The ghost of Frankenstein. It is also a sequel to The wolf man. This has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. It is very intense. It is one of the scariest movies ever. House of Frankenstein is better but only by a little bite. See this movie. It is great. It is very scary. House of Dracula which is the seventh universal Frankenstein movie and also the fourth universal wolf man movie is also better. This is the fifth universal Frankenstein movie. It also the second universal wolf man movie. It is a must see. The wolf man is looking for Doctor Frankenstein to find out secrets of life and death. A g.i.p.s.y woman form the first movie is helping. They find out the monster is not dead. Just in active. And he walks up. Now the wolf man must stop the Frankenstein monster for good.