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Why wasn't Kharis, Universal's lumbering harbinger of doom, included in HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HOUSE OF DRACULA??

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I understand that the original scripts called for the characters in these films played by Sig Rumann and Onslow Stevens, respectively, to venture down into their cellars, don fezzes and brew some tana...

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None of the above, for me. I think the reason for the omission of Kharis from these movies (outside of the fact that Chaney already was busy with the role of Talbot) is simply that it would have been...

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I agree with Mr. Sindelar, it would have been too much to include the Mummy in the "House" movies. MONSTER: "Hey Kharis..." KHARIS: "You talkin' to me? Huh? You talkin' to me?" MONSTER: "This house...

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Always follow the money (some wise man once told me). So I'll go with the time/cost of heavy makeup as being counterproductive to the 80-day budget as the principal reason, although all the other...

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The character was probably the hardest to create and I think he would've seemed positively shoehorned into the plot.

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Still, it would have been fun to see a face-off between the Monster and the Mummy with the Monster grabbing one of those hanging bandages, giving it a mighty yank and spinning the Mummy like a top.

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