Day 17 of my 31 Days of Vampire Movies takes us back to the 1990s this time, for a Made for TV Movie (do they even still do those?) from 1997 called House of Frankenstein.
Sadly no Funko Pop pic for this one, as it’s never had a DVD or Blu ray release
House of Frankenstein was the title of a horror movie from 1944, but neither have anything to do with the other. In this one, vampire Crispian Grimes (Dracula. Come on, its Dracula) has moved to Los Angeles and into the modern world as a high-powered business man. One of his ventures is a nightclub called, you guessed it, The House of Frankenstein. He’s also funding an expedition to the Arctic, in search of Frankenstein’s (the monster, not the doctor) resting place. He plans to display the Creature in his club for the patrons to gawk at. He’s a rich 90s douchebag, just roll with it. There’s a cop, a beautiful woman who gets turned into a werewolf by one of Grimes’ henchmen, shady real-estate dealings, fallen angels, crappy special effects, and a gratuitous use of The Smashing Pumpkins’ Bullet with Butterfly Wings that will make you laugh out loud when you see how on the nose it is.
As it’s a made for TV movie, it has never been released on either DVD or Blu ray, so finding a copy might be close to impossible, but I do recommend trying to run one down if you can. It’s awful, but in an entertaining way, and one of the better Made-For-TV-Movies out there, especially for the spooky season.