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Ygor (Bela Lugosi again, somehow surviving the bullet wounds suffered in Son of Frankenstein) is forced to flee from the Frankenstein castle when the villagers decide to blow the damn thing up. Before he flees, he stumbles across the body of Frankenstein’s monster (now played by Lon Chaney JR), well-preserved from his fall into the sulphur pits. A chance lightning strike brings him back to full power and he and Ygor make their way to a neighboring village to find Frankenstein’s other son, Ludwig. A well respected neurologist with a lovely daughter (beautiful Evelyn Ankers), Ludwig at first denies Ygor’s demands of help but when that dastardly broken-necked fiend threatens to spill the beans on the good doctor’s heritage, Ludwig begrudgingly agrees to assist where he can. Soon the monster is within the halls of Frankenstein’s chateau and laboratory. At first planning to destroy the monster, Ludwig has a chat with his father’s ghost and decides instead of destroying it he can swap its criminal brain with a normal one. Aided by his former mentor (now colleague after a past mistake) Dr. Bohmer (Lionel F’n Atwill), he sets out to succeed where his father failed. Ludwig plans on replacing the brain with that of his recently slain colleague but Ygor has other plans...plans to get his brain out of his broken body and into the body of a powerful giant. Flashing lab equipment, horror legends and a quick pace make for a rollicking good time. Lugosi has fun with Ygor and schemes with the best of ‘em. Atwill is also at his conniving best as the bitter surgeon, seeing a way to regain his former glory.
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