Continuing to review werewolf movies in chronological order of release that are uploaded on YouTube, I tried to look for the classic The Wolf Man but that was only available in highlighted segments. I did manage to find this-the sequel-though it was split into parts of which some of them were deleted. I did manage to find some of the missing scenes on that site as well as one uploaded segment with someone reading the original script which contained the dialogue of Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. I think the movie would have been much improved if his lines had stayed intact. Anyway, most of what I managed to watch was good especially the atmospheric beginning when a couple of would-be grave robbers were looking inside Larry Talbot's coffin. Having yet to watch The Wolf Man, I'm glad this movie explained some of what happened there in this sequel. I had previously watched Lon Chaney Jr. in this role in Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein so I was familiar with his take on it. And much of what I saw of the rest was also good though the fight scene between the title characters seemed contrived to me. I don't know how different my attitude about this movie will change if I ever get to see the whole thing intact. For now, this movie will get a 6 from me...Update-6/26/18: I've now seen the whole thing on Internet Archive. The fight at the end is now more understandable. The rating is now raised to 7 stars...

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.

Revived from his eternal rest, a man cursed with lycanthropy seeks out a famous doctor to help cure him only to find his still-alive monster nearby and begin fighting each other for control of the situation as they both race to come up with their own cure for their conditions.This here was quite the fun and enjoyable effort. One of the film's better elements here is the absolutely fun beginning here as this one really starts off great. The first two-thirds are brilliant, as the creepy grave-robbing of the coffin that revives him is pure Gothic charm that nicely leads into the brief institutionalization scenes in the sanitarium where they all struggle to piece his identity together alongside the fun scenes of his werewolf side out hunting the streets. There's plenty to like here with this one following the desperate search for the cure that it carries the film into a really strong part filled with lots of fun times. Since the search takes him to the legendary Frankenstein laboratory in the remote village where they are none too happy for him to be there, there's plenty of fun to be had here with his arrival there with the superstitious locals and in his efforts for help stumbles across the creature and uses it for help, this picks up that absolutely full Gothic atmosphere usually featured in these efforts and gets plenty of use here. That also leads into the reasoning for seeking out Frankenstein which is also very well conceived and plausibly plotted that really helps the film out, since it would all be lost without that crucial plot element. These are all great and are often spiced up with little parts here and there throughout this one that makes the film fun. That also means the titular fight is well conceived, rather than just being limited to a few grappling moves and strangle holds this one moves around a little causing a little destruction along the way and is one of the best parts of the film. Its finale is also one of the bright spots here, melding the action of the fight alongside the locals' plan to wash away the castle in grand fashion when their plan comes to fruition, really ending this on a high-note. Cap all of this off with a great sense of fun and it's one of the better entries in either storyline, though there are several things in this one that really doesn't work in here. The most notable is a song and dance section in the middle that seems really out of place and at a very odd point in the film. It sticks out like a sore thumb and isn't quite for everyone with its cheesy appearances, lame choreography and really slows the film down. The second half is also a little bit of a disappointment, at least until the final showdown, as it veers off course and becomes a sad mixture of several different story lines showing his intention of doing away the curse and their growing distrust of them at the castle that are quite clichéd trappings which don't quite gel at all. Overall, though, these are all to really complain about.Today's Rating/PG: Violence.

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