Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man - 1943
 

Many of you may already be well aware of this.. but... last night for the first time I watched Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (43). This is one of the films on that recent 2 disc Wolfman Compilation.

What a opening scene! Without a doubt one of the greatest opening scenes I've ever seen, horror or non horror. One really long take as they climb down into the cemetary. Beautiful photography and camera work. Incredible set design. Really blew me away. Now I see where Bava and some of those guys may have gotten their inspiration.

Just wanted to share this. If anyone has yet to see this film, they should if for nothing else, just to see this amazing opening shot.

orson

One of my favorite films in the Universal collection. A classic

Definatly a great movie, one of the 1st horror films I ever saw, in fact.

Oh yes. The opening scene was very innovative.

"Well, we've got TWO monsters this time...we'd better get right into this shit..."

"But what if the audience gets too scared?"

"THE AUDIENCE??!? Fuck 'em. They paid to see a horror film. And that's what they're gonna get."

This was the development of the "action film mentality" later to be commonly applied to horror films, big and small.

Just a mininum of talk, to explain whose grave they were robbing, and then WHAMMO. Great stuff.

Is a good film. Is a nice metaphor of II world war...

Francesco Cortonesi