12/15/2007
Wow- only ten days until Christmas. That’s 9 shopping days.
How many Chia Pets and Clappers will get scanned in that time?
Well, stop shopping and get home by 9 pm tonight – because we’re bringing back a family fave. You guys loved it last time- and some complained because you had to choose between going to the big Halloween parties or watching this flick. Well, this time- no such conflict! We’ve got the beloved horror comedy classic – “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein!”
Reminiscent of last week’s ‘House of Frankenstein”- there’s a “house of horrors” that is receiving the last remains of Dracula-PLUS the remains of the Frankenstein Monster! Two differences from last week’s flick- in this movie, both Drac and the Monster are totally intact- no bones or frozen tissue this time- and, secondly, working on the shipment are Abbott and Costello! The two delivery goofs bring the remains to the display place- at which point, Dracula (Bela Lugosi- somehow, he’s Bela again after being seared to bone by the sun as John Carradine) comes out of his coffin, grabs the Monster, and leaves. Meanwhile, none other than Larry Talbot- the Wolf Man- is trying to stop Dracula from returning the Monster to full power, and tries to enlist Bud and Lou to help him defy the Count. There’s a mole, however- Lou’s gorgeous new girlfriend is, in reality, a mad doctoress who is on Dracula’s team- and plans to bring Lou to Dracula’s laboratory- where they will put Lou’s easy-to-manage brain into the monster!
Can you imagine the Monster delivering “Who’s on First” to Abbott? It’s plenty of fun and some good scares, in the film that was pretty much the swan song for the great Universal monsters. And, we’re throwing in a holiday song from our library just to keep with the season. All in all, a fine way to spend a chilly evening- with a comedy chiller!
We mentioned last week that the Mummy was supposed to be a part of “House of Frankenstein”- but never made it for budgetary reasons- well, the same thing goes for THIS flick- there were plans to include Kharis the Mummy, the final fourth of the Universal biggies, in this film as well- but somehow they never found a plot device they thought would “make sense” to bring him in. Of course, once this film was a hit, it opened the floodgates for Bud and Lou to meet any other monsters that were still available-eventually getting back to the Mummy (although he was “Klaris”-not “Kharis” by the time he met them!)
Regardless, come meet Sven, Bud, Lou, Drac, Wolf Man, and the Monster- tonight at 9, or at 1 am on Me-TV!
How many Chia Pets and Clappers will get scanned in that time?
Well, stop shopping and get home by 9 pm tonight – because we’re bringing back a family fave. You guys loved it last time- and some complained because you had to choose between going to the big Halloween parties or watching this flick. Well, this time- no such conflict! We’ve got the beloved horror comedy classic – “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein!”
Reminiscent of last week’s ‘House of Frankenstein”- there’s a “house of horrors” that is receiving the last remains of Dracula-PLUS the remains of the Frankenstein Monster! Two differences from last week’s flick- in this movie, both Drac and the Monster are totally intact- no bones or frozen tissue this time- and, secondly, working on the shipment are Abbott and Costello! The two delivery goofs bring the remains to the display place- at which point, Dracula (Bela Lugosi- somehow, he’s Bela again after being seared to bone by the sun as John Carradine) comes out of his coffin, grabs the Monster, and leaves. Meanwhile, none other than Larry Talbot- the Wolf Man- is trying to stop Dracula from returning the Monster to full power, and tries to enlist Bud and Lou to help him defy the Count. There’s a mole, however- Lou’s gorgeous new girlfriend is, in reality, a mad doctoress who is on Dracula’s team- and plans to bring Lou to Dracula’s laboratory- where they will put Lou’s easy-to-manage brain into the monster!
Can you imagine the Monster delivering “Who’s on First” to Abbott? It’s plenty of fun and some good scares, in the film that was pretty much the swan song for the great Universal monsters. And, we’re throwing in a holiday song from our library just to keep with the season. All in all, a fine way to spend a chilly evening- with a comedy chiller!
We mentioned last week that the Mummy was supposed to be a part of “House of Frankenstein”- but never made it for budgetary reasons- well, the same thing goes for THIS flick- there were plans to include Kharis the Mummy, the final fourth of the Universal biggies, in this film as well- but somehow they never found a plot device they thought would “make sense” to bring him in. Of course, once this film was a hit, it opened the floodgates for Bud and Lou to meet any other monsters that were still available-eventually getting back to the Mummy (although he was “Klaris”-not “Kharis” by the time he met them!)
Regardless, come meet Sven, Bud, Lou, Drac, Wolf Man, and the Monster- tonight at 9, or at 1 am on Me-TV!
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