House of Frankenstein is a 1997 television miniseries that revived Universal's threesome, the vampire, Frankenstein's monster and the werewolf. It starred Adrian Pasdar, C. C. H. Pounder, Greg Wise, Teri Polo and Peter Crombie. It first aired on NBC in two parts on November 2 and November 3, 1997.
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Characters
Adrian Pasdar as Vernon Coyle, a police detective trying to solve a series of murders
Greg Wise as Crispian Grimes, a Dracula-like vampire
Teri Polo as Grace Dawkins, a newly bitten werewolf
C. C. H. Pounder as Dr. Shauna Kendall
Peter Crombie as Frankenstein's monster
Miguel Sandoval as Detective Juan 'Cha Cha' Chacon
Jorja Fox as Felicity, Grace's friend
Richard Libertini as Armando
Karen Austin as Irene Lassiter
Production
Shooting began during June 1997 in Los Angeles, California.
Reception
Entertainment Weekly called it a "two-part silly dilly of a horror film" that "wobbles as badly as the vampire’s rubbery pointed ears." Variety said "Cliches pile up appallingly, familiar situations sneak in out of other would-be monster pics." The New York Times bluntly called it "Not scary" and claimed it ineptly borrowed from other films.