This is an abominable C grade horror flick whose greatest claim to fame is the casting of a number of former stars or character actors whose careers were clearly on the decline for them to be willing to appear in such an atrocity.

Cleavage flashing Regina Carroll is a Vegas performer (we briefly see her lounge act) who goes searching for her sister who has disappeared. That search brings her to a town where she meets a beach bum (Anthony Eisley) along with a boardwalk "Freak Emporium" run by a wheelchair bound J. Carol Naish.

Naish is really Dr. Frankenstein, with a mute assistant (Lon Chaney Jr.). Chaney as Lenny likes to hug a baby puppy a lot until he is given a serum by the doctor which turns him into an axe wheeling psychopath ready to lop off the heads of anyone he finds hanging out on a beach. Exactly why Frankenstein wants him to do this and bring back the bodies I can't recall. It is all just so poorly executed. ' Meanwhile Dracula shows up (played by a truly strange dude called Zandor Vorkov, quite possibly the worst actor doing films at the time) and he produces the body of the Frankenstein Monster which he dug up from a grave.

There eventually will be a big fight between the Monster and Dracula and, no surprise, their contest is more comical (shades of Monty Python) than frightening.

This incoherent mess also features Russ Tamblyn as the sleazy head of a drug gang and Jim Davis as the town sheriff. Angelo Rossitto, who had once appeared in Freaks, plays the dwarf barker for the Freak Emporium.

As of the stars who had seen better days, Naish at least has dialogue here but, in playing a mute, Chaney merely has to look frightening with severe overhead lighting playing upon his debauched craggy features and an axe in his hand. It's sad, though hardly surprising, to see him in such a role. While this is mere speculation on my part, I had to wonder if the fact that Chaney was a pretty severe alcoholic at the end of his life played havoc with his ability to handle dialogue, thus the reason for his playing his role as a mute.

It's safe to say that the artwork advertising the film is the best thing about it.